The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-07

destroying the West Point and Nj aeon
railroads, % liberate the 5000 pris.
oncrs confined in Andersonville.
Wheeler with $500 men ompletely
defeated and dispersed this grand ag-
gregation-Appleton's Annual Cyclic
pedia for 1864 65 putin. the Federal
loss at 800 killed and wounded, $500
prisoners, and IL pieces of artillery.
Probably no cavalry achievement of
the war surpassed, if any equalled,
this in Importance and fsr-reaching
results, fcr had Hoods communities
tions been destroyed and the Federal
prisoners released, the campaign, if
not the war, would have ended at At
lanta.
could mention many other notable
exploits of the "war child of the Con-
federacy' and his men, but these will
be sufficient to show that they contri-
buted their full share to the record
for valor achieved by Southern horse
men.
But the most beautiful tribute I
heve seen paid to our cavalry is con-
tanned in an article by Colonel Young
in "Camp6res Of the Confederacy, in
whi:h he again gives instances of the
prowess OF Stuart, Forrest and Morgan,
but makes no mention of Wheeler or
his men. The article concludes with
the following eloquent peroration:
'There came time even when hope
failed; when armies were shattered and
scattered; when Lee had surrendered
and Johnston had capitulated; when
the illustrious army Of Northern Vir-
ginia was paroled, aud its bronzed vet
Grams turned their tcar-stained faces
toward their desoiate homes and took
up anew tho burdens of life; when the
army of Tennessee, where the rate Of
mortality reached the highest point,
and whose unconquerable courage new
er failed in defeat; when all the nigh
ty legions east Of the mississippi,
which for four years had withstood
the mightiest of conflicts, had stacked
their arms and accepted wars stern
decree; when the president of our ma
tion went forth from its seat Of gov
crnmcnt and, in sadness and gloom,
yet undismayed, sought refuge south
OF Virginia, there we're still som, who
clung to his fortunes and defended
his person in that period Of completcst
gloom and anguish. Even hero pity
ing providence provided the retreating
ehieftain with protectors whose hear.s
still blcd for the first and only Con
federate president and with him went
some who, even in his reverses and
humiliation, were ready to offer their
lives to guard him and his cabinet
from the pursuing foe.
"When the darkness Of death was
lowering around and over the South
ern cause, when tho last council of
war had been called, when all was lost,
there were those, even in such an hour
as this, who made declaration of their
constancy and devotion to that cause
to which they already had sacrificed
their fortunes and now anew rendered
their lives, and the history Of that
moment glorifios the manly courage
and gives those who participated in it
place on the brightest page which
perpetuate human heroism.
when the last sun which should
ever shine on the Confederate States
as an organized nation was lengthening
its rays, and finding repose in the mys-
terious depths Of its westward course,
and was sending forth fading but
sympathetic light to illumine the sad
and dreary scene Of nation dissolu-
tion; when it's departing shadows made
glorious and immortal the faces Of the
heroes who, In silent solemnity and
reverential awe, looked upon the death
throes Of the Confcderacy, it appeared
to those who stood amid the terrible.
ness of that moment to become fixed
for an instant, as if to paint in fairest,
brightest and eternal oolors, the line
aments of those Kentucky and Ten
nessce cavalrymen, who in that ou.
preme moment remained with its de-
fenseless president.
"Fate denied US victory. but it
crowned US with glorious immortali-
ty, and these are seme of the leaflets
which the cavalry of the Confederate
States offor as their contribution to
the superb record of patriotism, valor,
chivalry, courage and devotion, which
make up the illustrious volume Of Con
federate history"
As the author docs not. mention r.