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1862 AD (search for this): chapter 2.15
April 19th, 1872 AD (search for this): chapter 2.15
Ashboth (search for this): chapter 2.15
Dahlgren's ride into Fredericksburg.
This incident is scarcely of sufficient importance to demand a place in our papers, except as an illustration of how history is manufactured and a small affair magnified into a brilliant achievement by a sensational press.
In the Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren, by his father, Rear Admiral Dahlgren, there is quoted from the account of a newspaper correspondent the following vivid sketch of the affair:
I am sitting in Colonel Ashboth's tent, at General Sigel's headquarters, listening to a plain statement of what occurred, narrated by a modest, unassuming sergeant.
I will give it briefly.
General Burnside had requested that a cavalry reconnoissance of Fredericksburg should be made.
General Sigel selected his body-guard, commanded by Captain Dahlgren, with fifty-seven of the First Indiana cavalry.
It was no light task to ride forty miles, keep the movement concealed from the enemy, cross the river and dash through the town, especially as i
J. Raiford Bell (search for this): chapter 2.15
Burnside (search for this): chapter 2.15
John Critcher (search for this): chapter 2.15
Ulric Dahlgren (search for this): chapter 2.15
Dahlgren's ride into Fredericksburg.
This incident is scarcely of sufficient importance to dem y a sensational press.
In the Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren, by his father, Rear Admiral Dahlgren, theRear Admiral Dahlgren, there is quoted from the account of a newspaper correspondent the following vivid sketch of the affair dred men all told.
The tide ebbed, and Captain Dahlgren left his hiding place with his fifty-seve
The Rebel cavalry were in every street.
Captain Dahlgren resolved to fall upon them like a thunder d.
Having cleared the main thoroughfare, Captain Dahlgren swept through a cross street upon another petuous charge drove them back again, and Captain Dahlgren gathered the fruits of the victory--thirt but few efficient men.
The evening before Dahlgren's raid Captain Simpson's company, from Norfol as many men in Fredericksburg at the time as Dahlgren, and of these several were sick and others wi you propose of the article sent in regard to Dahlgren's ride into Fredericksburg.
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J. H. Kelly (search for this): chapter 2.15
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 2.15
Marye (search for this): chapter 2.15