Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-09
The Rebel Cavalry.

"What our cavalry costs US is awful. The
value of the barns burnt, the crops destroy
ed, the cattle killed or carried off, the horses
stolen, the money (gold and silver) exacted
from even the poorest farmers, under the
threat Of burning their houses over their
heads, the loss of material, and the far great
err and more bitter loss of morale, such as is
inflicted upon us by this unorganlzcd, demo-
rallied and demoraliZing Simulacrum OF ca
valry, would pay for the organization, horses
included, and the support of six thousand
cavalry for six weeks. 1t won't do to look
for scape goats in the shape Of John Barley
corn, and "a valley that is running with ap-
pie brandy" tell you, dear sir, there is
nothing running in this valley like our cav
airy; the valleyis now our Valley Of Humilia-
ton. There was more brandy andmore drink
ing, and moore good living in this valley in
the glorious times of Jackson than there is
now; yet he took, if am well informed, 4
hundred and odd pieces of artillery from the
Yankees. In this campaign we have taken
but ten pieces from the enemy, while the en-.
envy have taken thirty-One from us, which
makes balance of twenty-one against US.
In Jackson's time what little cavalry we had
was Ashbyan, If can so speak, and the Yam
KEGS had not yet turned out against us their
we'll equipped, well mounted, well disciplined
cavalry. That cavalry was in the course of
formation. Since it has made its appearance
on the seat Of war we all know what has hap
pened. They have bearded the lion in his
den; in the suburbs Of Richmond, or two
hundred miles from it, toward almost every
point of compass, they have fed on the fat OF
the land, and left behind them, mingled with
the smoke Of their camp-hres, By which were
roUG Tho i,-Jer ma ,be oroziDs sroInJ ,Se
Ia r,,sr yoInmns NJ SNAKE arising rom those
Is h.. - ,roro Jos,rovoJ nr;ro,o nn5
Goyarnmant nronertv, harms and br;dges.
bouSos Jnoo,s IilIog.s and factor;es n encb
an amount that the most obtuse Congress
ma, ,nnst nnw coo Mainly Thai cheat cav
10, IL = r1inors tb;pn Wal 0;r VIM sbomId
sec som. Of onr csxai4v briasJas. T. ia = ner-
Tsct mockerv. thev mnke eyen Tho Y,ntees
lonob. Jimboden's cavalry las tbev nre
caIIedl had better be nresente3 With n Ion, f,r-
innob for vithont pny tra;torons des;en IN
,Sefr mart tbev n;ve more MD and comf9rt N
rho enemy than frai,ors and Union men will
erer be abIe N rive"
The above. Is an extrac, frou n letter writ
ten bv nm officer in Early's army, and re-
Gently published in the Richmond Enouirer.
II only states fact now generally admitted
bv the whole rebel press. viz: that the rebel
horsemen have become utterly worthless and
useless. The world has not forgotten the
grand flourish about cavalry with which the
war was opened. The noblest of ouadrupeds
filed an important place in all the fanciful
nictures which the rebel newspapers and
rebel orators then DELIGHTED in sketchinn,
They were going IN nickel their horses in
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the North at their leisure.
Cavalry was their strong arm. Southern
gentlemen lived on horseback. We do not
Know but that thew worked themselves up to
the belief that they were born, reared and ed
ucated in that position while the unfortu.
nate Yankees knew no more about a horse
than to drive him harnessed to a buggy.
Southern Independence was Of a surety TO be
won. and Southern cavalry was To be the main
instrumentality in achieving that result.
Our troops were first confronted with this
terrible arm at the battle of Bull Run.
The Black Horse" were in the mouth
NJ every one of the panic stricken militia
men who rushed TO the Notifications of
washington on that disastrous and shameful
day with such indecent haste. The "Black
Horse" were everywhere on that bloody
field, il the fuRitiyes were to be believed, cut
tino sIashinp and running down-yery Cen
tauTs. with flaming swords instead of the
PSYCHOLOGICAL bows and arrows, LAYING ont
tprror-st9ickdn humanity in swaths wide
enonob 10 secure the annrovino sm;Ie of the
DcstToving Angel himseIf
Then came Jeb. Stuart with his or;tar and
troons of cavaliers sween;no oronnd onr
camps on the Peninsula. and afterwards at