Posted on 10/23/2024 6:25:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 22, 1864.
To Major-Gen. Dix:
The following official dispatch has been received from Gen. SHERIDAN:
CEDAR CREEK, VA., FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 1864 -- 4 P.M.
Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant, City Point, Va.:
I pursued the routed force of the enemy nearly to Mount Jackson, which point he reached during the night of the 19th and 20th, without an organized regiment of his army. From the accounts of our prisoners who have escaped, and citizens, the rout was complete. About two thousand of the enemy broke and made their way down through the mountains on the left.
Fourteen miles on the line of retreat the road and country were covered with small arms thrown away by the flying rebels and other debris. Forty-eight pieces of captured artillery are now at my headquarters. I think that not less than three hundred wagons and ambulances were either captured or destroyed. The accident of the morning turned to our advantage as much as though the whole movement had been planned. The only regret I have is the capture in early morning of from 800 to 1,000 men.
I am now sending to the War Department ten battle-flags. The loss of artillery in the morning was seven from CROOK, eleven from EMORY, six from WRIGHT. From all that I can learn, I think that EARLY's reinforcements were not less than 16,000 men.
P.H. SHERIDAN, Maj.-Gen. Commanding.
Gen. STEVENSON reports the arrival at Martinsburgh of 1,500 wounded and 1,500 prisoners. Gen. CUSTER arrived this afternoon at Washington, with ten rebel battle-flags displayed from the railroad engines. E.M. STANTON.
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Sheridan’s Victory: The Complete Rout of the Enemy – 2
Gen. Butler and Gen. Lee: The Rebels Yield to Retaliatory Measures – 2
Department of the Gulf: Reconnoissance of the Obstructions Below Mobile – 2
The St. Alban’s Raid: Capture of Twelve of the Brigands – 2-3
The War in Vermont: Additional Particulars of the Rebel Raid – 3
The War in Missouri: Movements of Gen. Price – 3-4
The Roanoke: The Particulars of the Capture and Burning of the Steamer – 4
Excitement at Memphis: The Militia Called Out – 4
From Louisville: Sinking of the Steamer Dime – 4
From Little Rock, Ark. – 4
Death of Col. Lowell – 4
The Tennessee Test Oath: President Lincoln’s Reply to the Tennesseans – 4
From Chattanooga – 4
The Rebels Enter Mayfield, Kentucky – 4
Maj.-Gen. Dana, Etc. – 4
The Middle Department: The Victory above Strasburgh – 4
From Vicksburgh: The Black Troops in Action – 4-5
Army of the James: Graphic Account of the Late Movements – 5
From the Far West: Gen Blunt on the War Path – 5-7
From the South: How the Proposal to Have a Convention is Received – 7-8
Editorial: The True Issue Before Our People – 8
Sheridan as a Hardware Merchant – 8-9
Editorial: Resources Left to the Rebels – 9
Southern “Subjugation” – 9
Editorial: End of the Great Taeping Rebellion – 9
Why use the term “the enemy”? The southern states wanted to leave the union. For whatever reasons, they wanted out. That was it. They didn’t seek to destroy the Union, only to leave it and mind their own business. Propaganda hasn’t changed in all these years. Now people who don’t toe the party line are branded “a threat to our democracy”. How is it any different?
Cedar Creek is one of those Eastern Theatre battlefields I have yet to see. It’s one of the NPS’s newer ones and it’s still a work in progress.
Great points, bk1000.
” The enemy “, ironically, is The New York Times.
Some things just never change.
Grant on Lee’s surrender: “I felt a great deal of sadness for a man who had fought so gallantly for a cause, even though I believed that cause to be the worst one ever fought for.” Lee is a very good man for surrendering honorably, and working to re-unite the Country.
“Why use the term “the enemy”?”
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Words. Words *always* matter.
Who want’s to be killing his ‘friend’?
Who want’s to be killing thousands and hundreds of thousands knows as ‘friends’?
That’s like unto comparing a “baby” to a “clump of cells.”
For weal or woe, words will always matter when trying to bring a person, people, nation or nations to certain courses of action.
Your question is excellent.
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