Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-30


II S- and other things, In
the open street,
caught strains of the following conyers "a
| ton:
YES" said Mr.. Delamar ter. ct was one
II Sheridan's private orderlies, attached to
MS person. Near the close of the war I
was specially placed here at Hagersto1yn
anu that is now L settled here, and at the
oispandment was poor that 1 took I'M
'I Mist tning TO do. and that was the for
warolng spirit In the lumber yard and plan
ing mill. and l have built no end of houses
mere ana all about this country The pace
mas grown from about three thousand neo-
PIE 10 fourteen thousand. Only one rail-
ROAD came INTO town in those DAVIS at the
northern end, and now we have half a
Dozen" .'A'i T"
fou must have formed some estimate of
sheridan, being so close to his tent ~
he was certainly an ambitious man 7
nave no doubt that he saw his opportrnitv
IN the civil war. and how many men were
going to be behindhand, and that n wanted
sover ne surely was the embodiment
OF cavalryman. His countenanre Wa n
STUDY 10 all of us near him We would
Watch MIN to know what we had to do. for
IL was an unfailing mirror He WAS sncb
S,n u.t re iellow thar when he got into his
nigh hollow saddle 1t would partly swallow
MIN up: II he sat in it rather linn and hook
Gu eooo hatured, We saw that we would nor
De pushed much. But when he was going
| Nv 'OihCtiiHS, Ills mead
ms spine straight and his sharp ewes sooxe
that the time Of action was mar Oh be
had working mindi l have noticed tbat
ittie IelloW walking to and fro Dreoccutiad
ae e the ground. and an officer would
come past and say, General have yo,, seen
MAJ. smith this morning.? No. I haven't
seen NM Smith might have spokeo 10
MIN minute before. He coul5 moi he
I To- from the ambitious purpose he had.
he was always thinking of something. de-.
Vislng something, except when there ,raro
laules about, and he was fond of the l,di.s
IL was said that he was behindhand ar tba
"a OF CEDAR Creek, because he stayed
up In Winchester. where there were scme
hne girls 1t was like him. though don,t
KNOW anything about the facts"
were you In that battle where Sheridan
was twenty miles away""
The Battle of Winchester.
was. Early had us beaten there. and
what saved us was the hunger the abso-
iute starvation Of the rebels- When they
got INTO our camps. firing right into the
tents. the men rushing out with their
drawers in their hands, they found a snian
dld supply of suffers stores and bea5duar
ters' stores. These fellows who had eatan
very nttle and drunk nothing were com
pieteiy uenoralized by what they saw and
they got out of line and hence lost their
impact and momentum. The sixth corns
under Wright. was able to get into posi-
ton. Sheridan came up too after tha
stand had been made but he Is resnonsihio
Tor the formation that ensued The mon
were put into line Of battle witbont anx
regard to their organizations, and they
swept at the rebs and drove them awav
retook the artillery, though 1 must saw
that what artillery we got from them yvas
OF the poorest quality. while what they
TOOK from us was frst-rate. After Sheri
dan got there and we had recovered tho
held the men were sorted out and put bacI,
In their commands and then we made The
onward march that broke the heart of the
rebellion TS
kick" i"S'
for Sheridan" Wv
There We're six men in about my own
situation, as private orderlies around head
quarters we were used for particular
service to carry orders in tight situations
often verbal orders: 1 was raised in the
Binghamton. but enlisted in the cavalry at
Montrose. in northern Pennsylvania, and
then had myself transferred to the regu-
lar cavalry of the United States. for i
thought If was going into the war I had
better go with trained warriors and learn
something. 1 was with Sheridan on the
celebrated raid he made into Richmond
when every bell in that city doomed and
we were but two miles and a half from
the town. You know that Sheridan az
pected when he got there to have Butler
come up from Bermuda Hundred where he
was. near by. and. together. they were to
make an attack on Richmond. We STAYED
there, firing all kinds of signals but no But
Ter came. Sheridan had fourteen thousand
men with him and the question was how
to get back again. There was single
bridge over the Chickahominy and we
We're cut off from that by the rebels. who
had got between 1t and us. Sheridan was
in very tight place. He was entirely out
OF supplies, our great horses which we
brought with us were staggering from
weakness. Seeing that the rebels had the
bridge Sheridan dismounted Clusters cav
airy, who were armed with short revolv-
ing carbines, seven shots in each, and they
charged on the bridge. and we had a flank
Ing movement from the edge Of swamp
saved the bridge. Thus the cavalry got
over the Chickahominy, and now on Sheri-
dams mind was the question how to feed
his fourteen thousand men. for though he
had the flower Of the cavalry their bellies
literally cried aloud for food.
To Bring Supplies.
'He finally resolved to send Claf1in with
about sixty men clear down the peninsula
to Fortress Monroe to bring supplies to
him up the Chickahominy river to White
house Landing. which had been McClel-
lan's base Of supplies Clafiin said to Sher-
idan: Can't I take Delamarter with me?'
Sheridan said: If he is willing to 60 yes;
but won't order him to CO. I couldn't go
back to Clafiin so I said was willing. We
were then sixty-fve men. all told We left
Sheridan close before Richmond at O'Clock
In the afternoon, and at o'clock the next
morning We We're at Williamsburg. De-
tached squads Of rebels we found and
charged them, but we did not pursue them
and yet We walked our horses nearly ali
the whole way. for 1t would have been mad
ness in their situation to press them hard
Then we had from Williamsburg about
twenty-five miles to Fortress Monroe
When We got there they at once loaded up
supplies and forage for the horses and
filled a steamer and we went back on IT.
A gunboat was to accompany the trans
port and protect 1t. Well, sir, we got up
to West Point where the Pamunky and
Mattapany unite to form the York, and
would you believe 1t. the commander Of the
gunboat refused to go on unless the caval-
rymen were sent ashore to scout for rebels.
his drink on empty stomach, and I
thought he would come to grief by the way
he pitched into the commander of that
gunboat. calling him a coward and so on.
But there were the boys waiting for their
food and there was nothing to be done but