Posted on 11/23/2024 6:47:08 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
The Army-Health of the Troops-Promotions.
MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION. Saturday, Nov. 19, 1864.
The month of November thus far, as to the atmospherical changes, has apparently entered the lists as a rival of the fickle month of April; for we have had alternate days of rain and sunshine, sandwiched with cold cycles, which would put the philosophy of "E.M." to a severe test, were he now recording the changes on this mundane sphere. Yesterday water fell in torrents from the clouds all day long. This morning the sun rose in regal splendor, causing people to forget the gloom of yesterday, and we can almost fancy it is bright May and not gloomy Autumn, and the May end of it at that.
The army has quietly settled down again into what the casual observer would consider winter quarters; such wonderful apt ways experienced troops have of making themselves comfortable under the most adverse circumstances, even when expecting every day to receive marching orders. Let a corps or a small detachment halt more than one night in a spot, and at this season of the year, every squad turns to work, and one day covers the barren ground with a village of huts, with chimney, door and bunk accompaniments. Truly necessity is the mother of invention. Before me as I write is a camp where every hut boasts of a brick chimney; possibly by tomorrow's sun the men enjoying the luxuries may have to abandon their abodes, and leave them for others to occupy.
Corp. Wm. H.F. AMWAKE, Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, reported by me to have been captured on Tuesday last, at the time Capt. MOUNTJOY, with 109 men of MOBBY's command attacked Sergt. SCHAFFNER and 16 men of the Seventeenth, near the Opequan, returned to camp to-day.
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This entire posting and NY Slimes bullcrap “article” is false. From someone who actually knows.
Why not post the Memoirs, instead. A primary source. Sheridan was always and ended up being a shite, another small man who weaseled his way up. Grant could not stand him, and of course during Grant’s corrupt admin, Sheridan clawed up. Read about Sherman, the pragmatist, and especially about the true criminal of this debacle- Stanton. Lincoln’s murderer for the Radicals who craved the territory of US citizens and stole a great deal. Read about Mosby cleaning up Hong Kong and the corruption (drugs, folks) of the charge’ there. All true. Grant became a close friend of his former nemesis.
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