The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-21

DEvIN, and KiLPArRrcK, and McCook, aud
POWELL, and SPAR, and ROUSSEAU, and
GRERsoN, and STANLEY, and PLEAsoNroN,
we have a host Of cavalry officers who have
done their duty, and achieved results whose
separate brillisncy differs in degree according
70 the circumstances which induced them and
the genius Of the officers Themselves.
But 10 refer 10 the most convincing record
of facts and figures, brief look at our sue
cesses Is satisfactory The I'd Cavalry Division
oC SHEBDAN's army, for instance, since the
Let of August has captured nnety-two acts Of
artillery harness, thirteen cannon. one battery
forge, five ambulance, one thousand sets OF
horse equipments, seven thousand head of
cattle, seventy-hye sets Of wagon harness, ten
Caissons, twenty four wagons and ten sets of
ambulance harness. 1t has demolished forty
wagons, seven hundred thousand rounds of
ammunition, three csissons, five ambulanccs,
and three thousand stand Of small arms.
Let Il be remembered, too, that in addition
! 10 these about two million dollars worth of
property was destroyed in the shape of tan
neries factories, saw-mills, grain forage, barns,
fll naces, depots, ambulance wagons, and the
like. Besides this property captured and de-
stroyed, over fifteen hundred prisoners we're
| taken, and one hundred and fifty of the enemy
| killed and FIVE hundred wounded. These
results were accomplished only by one dlvl.
sion. They are sufficient to prove the eff
! cheney Of our cavalry. They argue that the
terms Of triumph in which the people praise
our cavalry operations are not merely the
~
success Of the moment, but the serious hom-
age with which nation acknowledges valua-
! BILE labors.
No wonder, then, that the enemy should
waste so much breath in denouncing their own
cavalry. No wonder they are devoured by
envy when they survey our glittering achieve
ments, and mourn over the spoils which have
fallen into our bands, and are so irreparable
loss to them. Now that their last resources
are being drained, they can lily afford that we
should be successful. 1t is but natural that
they should lament the insuficiency Of their
| own cavalry leaders and Of their own
hOrsemen. In this respect, as in others,
| the fact has been demonstrated to them that
! they are not a match for us; and that although
Chivalry with them may mean one thing,
Cavalry has been made TO mean quite another.
The cavalry chiefs of the South have doubt
less done their best. No one doubts that. But
STUART and JoHN MORGAN, the raiders par
excellence, are dead, and no one to fill pre-
cisely the place of "Old Grizzly" has yet been
discovered. Among their shining lights they
reckon Lieutenant General N. b. FORREST.
Major-General w. Ii. +. LEE they laud as
dashlng, and LOMAX is memorialized as the
saviour Of the Valley. WHEELER is their
cavalry failure in East Tennessee and Georgia,
and MARMADUKE their raider-n-chief OF
West Mississippi.
WADE HAMPTON, in Virginia, is their iron
hero, and ISBODEN, whose star has lately
declined, is the great raider of the Shenan-
doah valley. VAUGHAN, one of their new
lights, has lately been shiningly defeated in
East Tennessee; and BASIL DUKE, RoDDY,
and ECHoLs swell out the list OF their cavalry
chiefs. Yet, comparing the doings Of the
Rebel troopers with the operations Of ours
and calling to mind the sweeping, wide sue
cess which has characterized our cavalry con
duct everywhere, it will be easily believed
that the cavalcade which shall adOrn the pro-
CcSSlOudl uISpldl vi Oul hOul VI uiVih'VS
triumph will represent some of the most in
trinsically valuable achievements ever com
passed.
Since General GRANT took commend Of the
army the cavalry arm has proved Of special
service. Under SHERMAN, in the West, ex'
ploits have been achieved by comparison o
which many an other valiant deed shines but
poorly. Living in the very atmosphere o.
dazzling deeds, we are apt either not to give
them the due measure of appreciation, or elsC
to degenerate into empty bombast in Oul
e applause. But in the exploits Of our cavalry
/ and particularly in contrasting them with the
n inefficiency Of Rebel horse-troops, subjects
Il are to be found to excite intelligent gratitude
:. in the least sensitive and impractical.
|. During General GRANTS advance from thu
@ Rapidan to the James, the manouvres o
It SHERIDAN in the Shenandoah valley, an(
Y more especially in the battle of Cedar creek
1 have evinced an order of generalshp which
n challenges comparison with the highest
e Meanwhile our splendid resources in men anC
+ horses, aud the utter destitutiOn of the Rebel
e in both, argue most brilliantly on our side fo
e the future. Under the leadership of sucl
|. cavalry officers as our Government have, thu
i achievements of the past will be more tina,
a equalled Each event of the future will grOuJ
+ itself beside them to complete the glitterinl
S chain Of triumph.
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