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Personal Memoirs of Major-General D. S. Stanley, U. S. a (Classic Reprint) David Sloane Stanley No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 138 - God bless you and all with you ! Please tender to all, and accept for yourself, the nation's gratitude for your and their skill, endurance, and dauntless courage.
Page 237 - I have had no trouble with Custer and will try to avoid having any, but I have seen enough of him to convince me that he is a coldblooded, untruthful and unprincipled man. He is universally despised by all the officers of his regiment, excepting his relatives and one or two sycophants.
Page 238 - I intended him to assist in getting the train, his own train, over the Muddy River. Without consulting me he marched off 15 miles, coolly sending me a note to send him forage and rations. I sent after him, ordered him to halt where he was, to unload his wagons, and send for his own rations and forage, and never to presume to make another movement without orders. "I knew from the start it...
Page 249 - GA Custer, heretofore forwarded to department headquarters. From citizens' clothing, from coffee, sugar, and bacon dropped, from the shells of patent ammunition found on the field, from two new Winchester rifles found on the first field, it is certainly true that these Indians were recipients of the bounty of the United States Government; and as they were mostly Uncpapa Sioux, they had at no long time since come from that center of iniquity in Indian affairs, Fort Peck. Taking one day to provide...
Page 217 - November 30, 1864, because it is the more recent, and one in which his gallantry was so marked as to merit the admiration of all who saw him. It was here that his personal bravery was more decidedly brought out, perhaps, than on any other field, and •the...
Page 85 - I have the honor to report for the information of the general commanding — That in compliance with special orders No.
Page 238 - Without consulting me, he marched off fifteen miles, coolly sending me a note to send him forage and rations. I sent after him, ordered him to halt where he was, to unload his wagons and send for his own rations and forage and never presume to make another movement without orders.
Page 113 - ... displeased with him, and never became fully reconciled. General Rosecrans was soon after relieved, and transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, in Tennessee, of which he afterward obtained the command, in place of General Buell, who was removed. The effect of the battle of Corinth was very great. It was, indeed, a decisive blow to the Confederate cause in our quarter, and changed the whole aspect of affairs in "West Tennessee. From the timid defensive we were at once enabled to assume the bold...
Page 265 - July and August, but were found to have died by thousands as we returned in September. The carcasses were found every hour from the Little Missouri all the way to Fort Lincoln. I since learn that this dying-off of this beautiful and useful animal extends over the vast country between the Missouri and Platte. I can account for it only as a universal murrain. The oldest voyageurs have never known of such a thing before; but Clement, the guide, says he once saw a murrain sweep off the buffalo. Elks...
Page 141 - This peculiar feature of county finds its greatest development about Tullahoriia, on the ridge between Duck River and Elk River. Some one with a very imaginative mind must have instructed the Comte de Paris with regard to this region, for, in the fourth volume of his " Civil War," the following wonderful description is given of this curious region : "A species of rough grass, rebellious under the teeth of animals, with here and there tufts of stunted oak trees, cover this desolate region; the wayfarer...