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Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e. [Spans the Potomac between Arlington and Washington.] It will be an injury to the business of maof Mrs. Washington by her first husband, was Washington's aid-de-camp at the siege of Yorktown, and her with every article I possess relating to Washington, and that came from Mount Vernon, is to remaan writes, and put into the Patent Office in Washington for safe-keeping until such times as they shand Congress should return these articles of Washington, which had been taken from his grandfather'snd the representative of the Great Father at Washington, decided to visit him, and told the interpreA battalion of marines from the navy yard at Washington was ordered to be put at his service, and thoung lieutenant of the First Cavalry, was in Washington on leave of absence, and happened to be at Atorney, Mr. Robert Ould, and Lee returned to Washington and Arlington, and in a short time was againtion. There he remained until summoned to Washington in February, 1861, reaching that city on the[1 more...]
Indianola (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ge spots like the leopard. I tried very hard to buy him, but he said he was already sold. I should prefer one of those at Camp Cooper. I fear, though, I should have to keep him chained, for they are very wild and savage. And again from Indianola, Texas, March 27, 1857, he writes to his youngest daughter: It has been said that our letters are good representatives of our minds. They certainly present a good criterion for judging of the character of the individual. You must be careful that , and would whistle like a tiger when you approached him. Be a good child and think always of your devoted father. From the same place on the next day he lets his wife know how difficult it was for army officers to retain their servants: Indianola, Texas, March 28, 1857. Major Thomas, anticipating a long sojourn, brought down Mrs. Thomas with him, who told me last evening of her troubles in relation to her womenkind. She brought two sisters from New Orleans under obligation to remain in
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
for his counsel two Texan lawyers, a Judge Bigelow and a Colonel Bowers, very shrewd men, accustomed to the tricks and stratagems of special pleadings, which, of no other avail, absorb time and stave off the question. The movement of troops to Florida will not take place, I presume, until the beginning of November. They are packing up and getting ready. The officers are selling their surplus beds and chairs, cows, goats, and chickens. I am sorry to see their little comforts going, for it inces she leads him in the leash, and carries along a bottle of milk for his use. In her own carriage he sits on her lap. I have been trying to persuade her to let me take him up to Camp Cooper, but she says she can't part from him. He must go to Florida. I have seen some fine cats in Brownsville in the stores kept by Frenchmen, but no yellow ones; the dark brindle is the favorite color on the frontier. In my walk the other evening I met a Mexican with a wild kitten in his arms enveloped in hi
Kansas Valley (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e boy preceded, and the girl followed the mother by about an hour. Their bodies rest in the same grave. I pray their spirits may be united in heaven. The husband, stripped of all he loved, is still absent; and the same day Major Ogden, Mrs. Woods's nurse, a soldier and his wife, died-making seven corpses in the house in one day. Major Ogden was a valuable soldier and much beloved by his men. They have erected to his memory, on an adjacent hill overlooking the fort and the beautiful valley of the Kansas and its branches, a stone monument, their own design and workmanship. The epitaph on it relates in touching simplicity his services and death. He died as he had lived — a soldier and a Christian, and repeated the Lord's Prayer with his last breath. There were fifty-nine deaths during the epidemic. Mrs. Armistead, wife of Major Armistead (General Lewis Armistead, killed at Gettysburg), died in six hours after she was taken. Her husband had marched with his company, but only procee
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
A protracted debate resulted. Sam Houston, of Texas, and Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, led the opthe Second Infantry. His subsequent career in Texas and in the Mexican campaign is well known to t its long march from Jefferson Barracks to western Texas. It numbered seven hundred and fifty men me post. Lieutenant-Colonel Lee arrived in Texas in March, 1856: To Mrs. Lee he writes from Sanntioning the Comanche raids on the settlers of Texas, he says: These people give a world of troubleh whom I had passed the night when I landed in Texas, in 1846, to join General Wool's army. Mr. Mo impossible. The change of the weather in Texas is the subject of a letter dated April 26, 185ng in this way with his wife and daughter over Texas prairies, first conceived the idea of the famos were then the largest and fiercest tribe in Texas. Attached to Lee's first station, Camp Cooperin on his way to resume his official duties in Texas. We find him writing from San Antonio, Texas[6 more...]
Alexandria (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
of war were fiercely raging; but amid the exacting duties incident to the position of army commander, Robert E. Lee, his executor, summoned them together within his lines and gave them their free papers, as well as passes through the Confederate lines to go whither they would. Mr. Custis in his will says: I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved daughter, Mary Custis Lee, my Arlington House estate, containing seven hundred acres, more or less, and my mill on Four Mile Run, in the County of Alexandria, and the lands of mine adjacent to said mill in the counties of Alexandria and Fairfax, in the State of Virginia, the use and benefit of all just mentioned during the term of her natural life. . . . My daughter, Mary Custis Lee, has the privilege by this will of dividing my family plate among my grandchildren; but the Mount Vernon plate, together with every article I possess relating to Washington, and that came from Mount Vernon, is to remain with my daughter at Arlington House durin
Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e. A fearless and graceful rider, he could have manoeuvred squadrons, and when the bugle sounded the charge, reins loosened, and sabers flashed in the air, lead them to victory. The headquarters of the Second Cavalry were established at Louisville, Ky., where Lieutenant-Colonel Lee assumed command on the 20th of April, 1855. Afterward he was transferred to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where the companies were to be organized and instructed, and which was then the temporary regimental heamy daily and constant prayer. I have been busy all the week superintending and drilling recruits. Not a stitch of clothing has as yet arrived for them, though I made the necessary requisition for it to be sent here more than two months ago in Louisville. Yesterday, at muster, I found one of the late arrivals in a dirty, tattered shirt and pants, with a white hat and shoes, with other garments to match. I asked him why he did not put on clean clothes. He said he had none. I asked him if he
Princeton, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
y-sixth year, was greatly deplored. His unbounded hospitality was as broad as his acres, and his vivid recollections of the Father of his Country, though only eighteen when he died, and whose memory he venerated, were most charmingly narrated. His father, John Parke Custis, the son of Mrs. Washington by her first husband, was Washington's aid-de-camp at the siege of Yorktown, and died at the early age of twenty-eight. G. W. P. Custis, the grandson of Mrs. Washington, was educated at Princeton. His early life was passed at Mount Vernon, but after the death of his grandmother, in 1802, he built Arlington House, opposite the city of Washington, on an estate left him by his father. In his will he decreed that all of his slaves should be set free after the expiration of five years. The time of manumission came in 1863, when the flames of war were fiercely raging; but amid the exacting duties incident to the position of army commander, Robert E. Lee, his executor, summoned them tog
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
eace establishment. Mr. R. M. T. Hunter, at that time a distinguished senator in Congress from the State of Virginia, offered an amendment to the Army Appropriation Bill which had passed the House in 1854, authorizing the increase of the army by two regiments of cavalry and five hundred mounted volunteers, who were to serve for twelve months. James Shields, an Irishman by birth, who had served conspicuously in the Mexican War as a brigadier general, and who was then a senator from the State of Illinois, offered a substitute to Hunter's amendment, embodying the views of his former commander in chief, Scott. A protracted debate resulted. Sam Houston, of Texas, and Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, led the opposition to the measure, the former saying that in the Texas Republic, before its annexation to the United States, the expenses of the Indian War had not exceeded ten thousand dollars a year, and that the settlers had better protection against hostile tribes of Indians than they had
Nevada (Nevada, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
y officer of the army of the United States. His term of office at West Point terminated by his assignment to cavalry. The great civilizing arms of the United States had been extended so as to embrace large extents of territory, and more cavalry was required. An expenditure of one hundred and sixty millions of dollars, thirty victories in Mexico, and the capture of ten fortified places, including the capital city of the enemy, resulted in adding to the Republic New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California. The increase in population made it necessary to increase the army in order to give full protection to all citizens within the new boundary lines. After the United States had secured independence, cavalry was not at first recognized as a component part of the regular army. The first mounted regiment, called the First Dragoons, was not organized until 1833. Then followed the Second Dragoons in 1836, and in 1846 another regiment was added, designated as Mounted Riflemen. W
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