Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-07-02
By Wilson. whilst ellsIls attaal.s.I

CNHNs ttD Afttt ~ --4.=.. ~ 80 ~ -
Stuart when wounded only Capt
Dorsey was not mounted he was
lighting K dismouptod
In the "Campaigas e htnart's
Cavalry BY Mai HI McCIel.
land. Stuarts Chief u hissc
~ 81 Job Stuart FIRTH 10
death that should be II snsls Of
every cayalrymau. sl.e She acs
count Of tho mortal aandlng 81
Gen. Stuart That was by Mai.
McClelIand ID AIRS slsaFt Ill W
VI the General j dealt. which was
published ~ her anthorIty ii Vol.
VII. Southern Historical society Pa
pers. and Ia which McCIelland STATES
thai Capt. Gus Dorsey Company
Il, First Virginia cavalry, helped
Gen. Stuart from bis horse whom
wounded, and chat whllss waiting.
Gen. Stuart ordered Capt Dorsey
to return b he men and drive back
she enemy, and there was only a
haneifat Of mon between that little
group anu tho advancing uueny
that is. tho handInl VA sid K
commanded BY Capt Gus Dorsey
NY friend NeweE ". Harris il sgals
liant Virginia aentlenan row ii Tex
al, who served the ouaIfe war III
90. q, First Virginia Cavalry III d
letter of recent date sags Dur
company fought Innetl u On HE
Telegraph road gl9 u io lhe
Yanks were advancing aloue sssS
road. Stuart uus asers and ordefed
Capt Hammond % phare viii bis
which be Did hllantly.
and was Killed On the Geld We wefe
ordered Il slismuunt. aae tho last
words ! ever beard 81 Jeb Aay
were, Boys. don stop i emnl !
Shoe, them Shoot sbep and "a
q did shoot them
We had assssyassa0 Pc Iliop shore
was Z deep cut ii she rsla ailh i
good fence ii she len II IL and Z
gcDd fence ii fruns il - me
Yanks were charging aish sanre
aud slaahod VI ~ over ge eneeas
but We snon piled them III n Nj vi
completely blockade the a rit4
dead horass assl tnn ADsl ia
Gen StAart saw w haa lilockndad
thc road and stopped their ii sance
H. rotfe III II Hs dlrafion u 4 and
thai was Abe last ] ever saw 81 oar
gallant General.
Tho following IS the account II that
great calamity 70 The South. The nor
lal wonndingoi Jeb Stuart ia the
torsc seldlerIy words d Col. ltheu
Captalnl Gus Dorsey They are ~
curatc. % The point, and cannot be-
improved on
1 was stationed ~ ~ 40hf Of our
line. near THE Telegraph Of Brook
rosd, With my company (Ikl dis
mounted, nembcring about ~ inea,
aud ne ara kaesq about our troops
being whipped aud driven back ~
M isyf was WHOM Cen. Stuart came
down VI my position Will Ylew 81
ordering nc back. aud just q be
rode up u tho company DE Yanks
charged He halted nlHnens aud
encouraged The tnen with the words,
CHS sabre above his head Bully
for old ri Give II 70 Them, boys +
And just as K had repnlsed the
Yanks be was shot 10 the stomach,
reoied on bis horse and said, | am
shot, and then, Dorsey, save your
men. ! caught him and took him
from his horse. Heinsistcd should
leave him aud save my men. / told
him we would take him with Us. and
calling Corporal Robert Bruce and
Private Charles Wheatley, sent him
10 the rear No other troops were
near Gen. Stuart when he was shot
that ! saw. 4 do not know the cxs
act position Of The mounted men of
our regiment | tell YOU Ii those
heated fights d follow did not have
much time to look around Z
BY an order from the War De.
partment, Aug. 8. 1864, X. all Ma
rylanders, was transferred from the
First Virginia TO the First Mary
land, OF which Gus w Dorsey was
made Lieutenant Colonel command
ing.
On Aprils, 1865, the First Mary
land was attached 70 the Second. or
"oId Brigade, which, on tho morn
ing Of the 9th, under command Of
that glorious Virginian volunteer,
who was al,oags on hand when tho
pinch came, Brighton. Thomas r.
Munford, "cut their way through
tho Yankee line and abom 500 men