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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Part 2: daring enterprises of officers and men. (search)
seemed almost supernatural. We at last succeeded in driving him away, but we could not catch or shoot him, and he got off without a scratch. In the meantime the fight was going on elsewhere. Kilpatrick's Brigade charged on our rights The Second New York did not behave as well as it has sometimes done since, and the loss of it weakened us a great deal. The Tenth New York, though, went in well, and the First Main 3 did splendidly, as it always does. In spite of their superior numbers (Stuart had a day or two before reviewed thirty thousand cavalry at Culpepper, according to the accounts of rebel officers), we beat them heavily, and would have routed them completely if Duffie's Brigade had come up. He, however, was engaged with two or three hundred men on the left; the aide-de-camp sent to him with orders was wounded and taken prisoner, and he is not the sort of man to find out the critical point in a fight of his own accord. So now, they bringing up still more reserves, and
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The cavalry fight at Brandy station. (search)
seemed almost supernatural. We at last succeeded in driving him away, but we could not catch or shoot him, and he got off without a scratch. In the meantime the fight was going on elsewhere. Kilpatrick's Brigade charged on our rights The Second New York did not behave as well as it has sometimes done since, and the loss of it weakened us a great deal. The Tenth New York, though, went in well, and the First Main 3 did splendidly, as it always does. In spite of their superior numbers (Stuart had a day or two before reviewed thirty thousand cavalry at Culpepper, according to the accounts of rebel officers), we beat them heavily, and would have routed them completely if Duffie's Brigade had come up. He, however, was engaged with two or three hundred men on the left; the aide-de-camp sent to him with orders was wounded and taken prisoner, and he is not the sort of man to find out the critical point in a fight of his own accord. So now, they bringing up still more reserves, and