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Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
e Southern element, as it was called, dominated society, but the bulk of the population, the plain people (in large measure Germans), sided with the Abolitionists and Free-Soilers. Young Venable, who had been bred up in the strict States' Rights school, and who, through temperament, contemned everything savoring of compromise or expediency, threw himself with all the passion of his ardent nature into the struggle that had even then begun between Secessionists and Union men for control of Missouri in the impending conflict. Then burst the storm of war, and Venable, without a moment's hesitation, threw up his prosperous business (though he well knew that it meant the sacrifice of everything he had accumulated), and sped to his mother State, where he at once enlisted as a private soldier in the Third Battery of Richmond Howitzers, then under orders to join the Army of the Peninsula. He was at this time, as the writer of these lines remembers (for we were in the same gun-detachment),
Hagerstown (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
is of Rebel sympathizers), begging her to make a few rapid preparations for marriage, following up the letter (characteristically) with a telegram, Come with your aunt at once their marriage by the Rev. Dr. W. S. Plummer in his study, who had been his father's classmate at college, and who was then living in Philadelphia—his wife's departure within a few days Southward for Baltimore, while he fared Westward to the oil-fields—his making his way gradually, through help of the underground, to Hagerstown, Maryland—his dash, one stormy night, on a fleet horse to an unguarded point on the Potomac—the perilous swim across—and so back to freedom, and Old Virginia—all this, as wild as any chapter in Stevenson or Dumas, must be told at another time and in another place. A comrade heard him recount the story soon after his return, and begged him to write it down then, and he half-promised to do so, but, as so often happens, never did. Just after the disastrous Retreat, which culminated i
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
im unlimited money for emergencies—his cool assumption of the role of an oil-land promoter—his frequent trips to the Pennsylvania oil-fields to pick up hints, for better playing the part—his writing his fiancee, Miss Stevens (who had come on to Baltimore with her aunt, to avoid the persecution in St. Louis of Rebel sympathizers), begging her to make a few rapid preparations for marriage, following up the letter (characteristically) with a telegram, Come with your aunt at once their marriage by the Rev. Dr. W. S. Plummer in his study, who had been his father's classmate at college, and who was then living in Philadelphia—his wife's departure within a few days Southward for Baltimore, while he fared Westward to the oil-fields—his making his way gradually, through help of the underground, to Hagerstown, Maryland—his dash, one stormy night, on a fleet horse to an unguarded point on the Potomac—the perilous swim across—and so back to freedom, and Old Virginia—all this, as wild
Leuthen (Poland) (search for this): chapter 1.4
d almost inspired, orders, grasped his hand, and said, Venable, I've sent off my last man. You must take this order to the left. There is no one else. I assume all responsibility. Certainly, sir, replied Venable, saluting, and most delighted, and away he sped through the woods reverberating with the fierce, wild cries of the victorious Confederates, driving the enemy from their last stubborn stand. All through that glorious day (the tactical masterpiece of the nineteenth century, as was Leuthen of the eighteenth), Venable carried Stuart's orders, and when night fell, as they lay by the camp fire, told a kindred spirit how he chafed at being in a bomb-proof. I shall ask that for your services to-day, said Stuart, you be assigned my staff. For Stuart to ask (after his own brilliant work), was to have, and so Venable, within a few days, was assigned to the Headquarter Staff of the Cavalry, with the rank of Major, and announced in General Orders as Assistant Adjutant and Inspect
Prince Edward (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
ife—as husband, father, kinsman and comrade—worthy of the noble stock from which he sprung. His life before the war (the war to us beyond all other wars it must ever be), was uneventful—just the life of the average young Virginian of good family, straining at the leash and eager to get beyond the somnolent life of prosaic surroundings. It may be told in few words, for his real life lay within the four years of war. He was born at the Vineyard (one of the old Venable estates), in Prince Edward county, on December 2, 1832, son of Samuel Woodson and Jane Reid Venable—was graduated from Hampden—Sidney College before he was twenty, in the class of 1852—disdained to settle down as a small planter, and so went West to seek his fortunes, speedily deciding on St. Louis as his new home. There, owing to his industry, quick intelligence and spirit of enterprise, his business success was almost instant. What is far more to the purpose, it was there that he met socially two people who
Cemetery Hill (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
, those few words may not mean much. To Andrew Venable's surviving comrades, they are pregnant with martial meaning. But the hero of Gettysburg had no desire to try conclusions with his fierce and wary adversary, and slipped away from the crucial test, counting its avoidance a clever manoeuvre. What a complete answer to latter-day military sciolists, who blame Meade for not pursuing Lee after Gettysburg, blatantly assuming the demoralization of that veteran soldiery that had stormed Cemetery Hill. The story of Venable's services during the winter of ‘63-64, when Stuart, despite his being compelled to scatter his command because of lack of forage, was yet continually beating up the enemy's quarters (as his Cavalier prototype was wont to express it), must be sought in official dispatches. Then, in the spring of ‘64, began the greatest of Lee's campaigns—a grim wrestle of eleven months, with the guns going night and day—in which the Confederate commander, from the Wilderness
France (France) (search for this): chapter 1.4
at corral for the supply cattle of the Army of the Potomac, determined to make a bold raid in Grant's rear, and, if possible, to lift (in Hieland phrase) the fat beeves there congregated, of which the Federals always had plenty, while at this time the chief food of the hungry Confederate was but half a ration of hard tack and rancid pork. For many months, indeed, Lee's veterans, like the English just before Agincourt, had been shrewdly out of beef, but Hampton knew that (as the Constable of France allowed of his adversaries on the eve of that historic day) give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. To penetrate so far to the enemy's rear seemed to many of the boldest a rash undertaking, but the actual cutting out of this immense herd (by official count, two thousand four hundred and eighty-six) was brilliantly accomplished under the very noses of the astounded Federals, and then came the most critical part of the expedition.
Nottoway river (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
ver forget the great shout that went up from the gaunt veterans in the trenches, to whom it meant returning health and vigor and renewed strength to fight on for the cause that grew even closer to their hearts. In his official report, Hampton says (September 27th, 1864): Major Venable, of my staff, was ordered to superintend this movement of the cattle, and, with Major Ryal, Provost Marshal, who had been very efficient in conducting it up to this time, to place them quickly across the Nottoway River at Freeman's Ford. These officers discharged their duty admirably, and the successful manner in which the cattle were brought off is due very much to their zeal and enterprise. On October 27th, in the great action at Hatcher's Run, in which Grant received another lesson that we still could sting, and sting sharply, Venable, while carrying an important message from gallant Jimmy Deering (one of Lee's Boy Brigadiers) to Hampton, in making his way through the heavily wooded country, rod
City Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
sh undertaking, but the actual cutting out of this immense herd (by official count, two thousand four hundred and eighty-six) was brilliantly accomplished under the very noses of the astounded Federals, and then came the most critical part of the expedition. To round up and bring off such a number of cattle demanded the readiest shrewdness, coolest courage and wariest management. The enemy, after their first overwhelming amazement, recovered their wits; telegraph wires were kept hot from City Point to Grant's front, and very speedily Hampton was so hard pressed by both cavalry and infantry that a less resolute fighter would have abandoned his booty and thought only of escape. But Hampton knew Lee's great need of proper food for the men, and at all times was an officer of prompt resource and most stubborn courage. He placed Venable and Ryal in charge of the escort that was to drive the cattle, and turned about himself to hold the swarming enemy in check, until the cattle might be h
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.4
elligence and spirit of enterprise, his business success was almost instant. What is far more to the purpose, it was there that he met socially two people who were to play the chief part in his life—Miss Stevens, a niece of Governor Stevens, of Maryland, a lady destined within a few years to become his wife under the most romantic circumstances—while he was an escaped prisoner in the enemy's country—and Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart, U. S. A., who, though but twenty-two, had just proved his warlikclassmate at college, and who was then living in Philadelphia—his wife's departure within a few days Southward for Baltimore, while he fared Westward to the oil-fields—his making his way gradually, through help of the underground, to Hagerstown, Maryland—his dash, one stormy night, on a fleet horse to an unguarded point on the Potomac—the perilous swim across—and so back to freedom, and Old Virginia—all this, as wild as any chapter in Stevenson or Dumas, must be told at another time a
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