Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-26
vArroHs OF LEES LAST RATI0N8
The second New Work Cavalry Given
thc Chscf Credit for the Feat.
Letter in New York Times

Letter in New York Times.1
In Gen. Sheridan's "Bccolections of The
LIS. DAYS OF the Rchallioa.n published in
The North American Review for July, he
daer... th' capture of Less last ratons,
LOADED upon four trims of cars at Apponattoz
st-tl u.s., anil give, tine credit for this exploit
60 ''tt'5 oi Casters ragimentsn Aservico so
lHn..tn and daring, IN the very face of the
cue.u-, whose s6lruish line at the time was
Nltir slor, hru., distance of those trains.
ought 60 be credited to the actual partici-
pat' and not vaguely so any 1.-TWO regi-
lnent- ui Custer's Incompatible division.
wmou DARN, the period OF his command Of
II, "c'piUed every piece C artillery that
was pointed toward it."
ALLOW me. therefore, 90 state that it was
the Second New York cavalry, Col. \. NJ
Rando. commanding, of the FIRST brigade.
Clusters division which, after run of four
or five miles, reached those trains. drove OF
the armed guards, pulled the engineers from
the locomotives, and replaced them with
men of their own regiment who had been in
the railway service before their enlistment.
All this was accomplished and the trains
run toward Richmond, before even the whole
regiment succeeded in reaching this indie
scribable scene. AS fast as the regiment
could he got together company after com
pany was thrown upon the skirmish line to
cover the trains and prevent the skirrnisher,s
Of the brigade of Confederate troops from
coming in upon the boys who were man
ming Che trains. The fighting became heavy
against both infantry and artillery before the
neXt regiment in the column, the Third
New Jersey cavalry, came on the ground at
q -allop, and went into action on the right
of tbs Second New York, whose line was
already overlapped by the enemy. These two
regiments confronted and held in cheek .
vastly larger force until nearly dark before
tine need of the main body of Clusters divi-
sion came up, and IS regiment after req
meat went into action they found the
cramv's line still growing stronger ana
stronger, until DevjDs' division reached tho
tiel3 and still tlrthur prolonged the right OF
the cavalry Inc { was not until about
midnight that Clusters division succeeded IN
routing The enemy and capturing the battery.
which. from the first attack, was in easy
range Of the station where TIE trains were
captured
Ni'+ no desire % dlSparage any other rec
intent so may be said that the Second New
YORK cavalry fearly in the war known *
hIpatricSs Harris Light cavaIry) psrtici-
pated IN more skirmiShes and lattlss tho,
any other regiment in the Union army. The
regiment was organized by Col J. Mansfield
Davies in August, 1851. It was successfullv
commanded by Coils. J. NJ. Davies, Judson
Fitzpatrick. Henry E Davies, Otto Harhaus
Walter Clarke Hull, and Alanson NJ. Ran.
dol, The regiment was reorgauized in the
fall OF 1854 having been reduced to one
battalion ut the muster out of the original
three years men who had not previously re
enlisted. Two or three months later its
ranks were again filed by the addition OF