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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby 's men. (search)
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging. (search)
Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging.
San Francisco, December 19, 1899. Mr. John R. Russell, Berryville, Va.:
I was sorry I could not be with you at the unveiling of the monument to our men at Front Royal, and I dissent from some historical statements in Major Richards' address.
I do not agree with him that our men were hung in compliance with General Grant's orders to Sheridan.
They were not hung in obedience to the orders of a superior, but from revenge.
A man who acts from revenge simply obeys his own impulses.
Major Richards says the orders were a dead letter after I retaliated, which implies that they had not been before.
I see no evidence to support such a conclusion.
In his letter in The Times, Major Richards says that Sheridan's dispatches about hanging our men were visionary; i. e., he never hung any. If so, the order had always been a dead letter.
No one ever heard of his hangings until his dispatches were published a few years ago. Sheridan was th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)