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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
ho came to avenge it. In a few year, he acquired the entire confidence of even the shrewd and suspicious William, and held high offices about his Court, maintaining all the while a traitorous correspondence with St. Germains, certainly betraying James to William; probably betraying William to James also; but carrying on his intrigue with such dark ability, that to this day men are in the dark as to which monarch, he really intended to adhere to. Probably his only idea was to secure himself a pJames also; but carrying on his intrigue with such dark ability, that to this day men are in the dark as to which monarch, he really intended to adhere to. Probably his only idea was to secure himself a pied-a-terre in either camp." The Earl of Strasburg and Lord Carmathen white trusted Ministers of William, as well as many others, kept up treasonable intercourse with the banished sovereign. The shameful stains on Marlborough's glittering escutcheon are familiar to all the world.--His double treachery to sovereigns who had loaded him with benefits he continued to the last. "In 1713," says Lord Mahon, "we find him professing the most unbounded devotion to both monarchs elect — the Elector of
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brilliant skirmish. (search)
he balls were flying thick around him, deliberately dismounted and nailed a shoe on his horse. Private W. G. Berhard, by great presence of mind, by quickly inclining his head side-ways, saved his life, receiving a slight abrasion of the skin, on his neck, from a ball shot by a man, whom he instantly shot down. Sergeant Wm. Powell, Privates Willis Otey and James P. Lovell had their horses shot — Powell's dangerously. Sergeants Powell, Turner, and Wood, and Privates J. P. Turner, P. A. James, J. L. Dickerson, John Brooks, G. T. Mattox, Poindexter, and H. S. Wright, may be favorably noticed for their success in killing and capturing the enemy. It is due to Captain Rosser to state that this brilliant skirmish was won while he had command; and on two most important occasions, and in the thickest part of the fight, he was nearest to the enemy. At one time, far ahead of every one he was seen riding alone through the cornfield in pursuit of the armed fugitives. He captured a