. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . mpanyand informing him that he had but forty men left fo1duty. He closes his letter with this significant sentence^ Still my forty are as good as a brigade when it comes t<a square charge. CHAPTER XVII THE STORY OF GENERAL KELLEY Old Ben Kelley was one of the silent heroes of the Davis, the army officer who has charge of the pub-lication of the rebellion records, told me that Kelley madeless history for the amo
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . mpanyand informing him that he had but forty men left fo1duty. He closes his letter with this significant sentence^ Still my forty are as good as a brigade when it comes t<a square charge. CHAPTER XVII THE STORY OF GENERAL KELLEY Old Ben Kelley was one of the silent heroes of the Davis, the army officer who has charge of the pub-lication of the rebellion records, told me that Kelley madeless history for the amount of fighting he did than anygeneral officer in the service. Prudent, secretive, vigilant, General Kelley committedlittle to paper. Xo telltale order ever betrayed his plans to the enemy His instruc-tions always went by wordof mouth, through trustedadjutants, and no corres-pondents were allowed inhis camps. His reportsscarcely showed which sidelicked when he had been vic-torious. They were char-acteristic of the man, terse,laconic, modest. In theforthcoming volume of WarEecords, covering some ofKelleys operations alongthe Baltimore and Ohiorailway Major Davis will. Gen. B. F. Kelley have to depend largely upon the reports of the Confeder-ate commanders for his history The reports of Stone-wall Jackson, Loring and McCausland relate interestingexperiences with Kelleys ten thousand along the upperPotomac and in the Shenandoah valley. Prom the beginning to the close of the war Kelley op-erated in the mountains and kept open the Baltimore andOhio road, the great supply artery for the armies of theEast; and he was the man who kept Stonewall Jackson 164 ELWOODS STORIES out of Pittsburgh. Early in the war Jackson conceivedthe idea of invading Western Pennsylvania to ravage therich farming country of the Monongahela valley, burnPittsburgh and destroy the great arsenal there. It becamehis hobby, and every movement of his up to the beginningof 1862 looked to that end. The repulse and ro
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