The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-08

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Ihavs seen painting representing
the General coming on the scene or
that occasion riding his black horse
(which was given him by some Miehi-
gan frien1 and, by the way, I have
heard the cavalrymen curse that horse
IN vigorous terms. he Was the fastest
walker in the army, and when the
General was riding at the head of the
column On the march, the rest Of the
,ommsta would be kept on = little
iog-trot about half the time, and any
.avalryman knows how trying that Isl
especially for the non-combatants, such
is cooks, csmp carriers, ETC., who are
loaded down with camp and garrisoD
>quipage. could always tell At night
when I heard our cavalry marching
near me if the General was in lead by
the Jingle of the tin and iron kettles as
they closed up in the rear. Well, this
painting that I mention shows the
General With sword in hand, . broad
brimmed, stiff regular hat, with waving
plume on his head and looking very
much excited, as, of course. he had
right to be under the circumstances.
But the artist drew very largely ON
his IMAGINATION. It would be hard to
exa9gerate the beauty and majesty OF
the h0rse-big, black, vigorous, champ
ing his bit, nostrils red and dilating,
his long tail swinging to and fro like q.
banner; it would I've h>rd to picture
anything more striking er grand than
the big black on that OCCASION. But as
to the General, excepting that his eyes:
were blazing and fierce, there Was not
much sign of excitement shown by rim
He wore some of the regulation uni
form, but not much On his head was
little round CAP. such as German stu
dents wear. In his right hand he held
small riding whip, which, Judging by
the welts on his horses TANKS, had been
indpstriously u-I. He was splashed
with mud, and had u big daub of it just
under one eye, which gave him sort
of "been-t to- a. wake" look. If he had
any gauntlets they were in his pockets.
As he rode on the hill beyond Middle
tor he was met by one of General Tor
bert's aids, who was mounted or a big
gray horse, nearly as large as Rienzi-
The officer jumped the stone wall and
joined the General just as he came in
sight Of the field, and rode side by side
toward group near the woods on the
right of the pike in the rear of the sixth
corps, where Generals Wright, Emory,
and Torbert and their stats were gath
cred.
I asked the aid afterward What the
General said when he joined him He
replied: ''Wen the Generals first
words we're, Now is not this H. and
then he said, 1T was just such id
mess out West as this that gave me
my brigaadier star in the regulay army,
and I am going to make it double star
this time He then asked, where is
Wright?" and soon after joined the
other Generals. I had been riding
along behind as fast as my little mare
could Jump, when the General looked
back and said: ''Scout, hunt up the
ammunition wagons and order them up"
Back in the rear on the valley pike the
Generals staff were making their way
up as fast as they could. l transferred
my orders to one of the aids, for knew
the demoralized treamsters would not
pay much attention to a man in
blouse, and then turned and rode back
after the General.
When I reached the group on the
hill I saw General Wright sitting on
The ground; the tip of his chin had
bsen cut away by q bullet early in the
morning, and he was otherwise harmed.
pro badly. as he seemed to he daze6
and not to have hi, wits about him for
the time General Emory "Old Bull Of
the *teds;" as some of the wild young
cavalry staff called him, commander OF
the nineteenth corps, stood by with his
hands crossed behind his back, looking
down at General Wright. General
Torbert leaned on his horse and pulled
at his mustache, and General Sheridan
was quietly asking questions from all
of them. In few moments he knew
all they could tell him, and pulling
dispatch book from his pocket, begar
by writing something which he put ir
little dispatch envelope and addressed.
and then looking up, his eye fell on me
and blaZed up a moment. He said:
what the devil are you doing here? ]
thought I sent you af'e the ammunition
wagons" L explained matters to him.
He gave me sharp look and said:
You've got healthy gall to order my
staff officers about. Take this dispatch
to Winchester quick as you cam" and
then away he rode down the line.
Presently one of the staff came gallop-
ing after me before had gotten more
than a mile beyond Middletown and
took the dispatch and told me to &C
back, and said he was to 60 to VIM
chester and order up all the stragglers,
and would attend to the dlspatcl, him
self.
So back I went and rode about all
the rest of the busy day, getting what
information 1 could and carrying orders
for any one who wanted me. 1 gave
the newspaper correspondents consider
able information, which they worked
mp to suit themselves. The best &C.
count of the fight was written by the
correspondent Of the World.
If General Early had not been SC
greedy, and had withdrawn his forces
after the success of the morning and
carried away his guns and his prisoners
General Sheridan would not have won
the double star that day. After the
fight was with the party that captured
the confederate signal officer on Masa-
hatten mountain, and I now have the
telescope that was used by Generals
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