Richard Snowden Andrews [electronic resource]: lieutenant-colonel commanding the First Maryland Artillery (Andrews' Battalion) Confederate States Army, a memoir . lying him with a truss whichgives him relief and under the terms of the order,he proposes to remain still longer, hoping mean-time that its withdrawal will enable him still tobe my associate. Very respectfully, (Signed) T. S. Rhett. on the staff of Prince Frederick Charles. About twenty yearsafter the Confederate war he visited the United States andwhile in Baltimore was a guest of Major W. Stuart Symingtonto whom he told this anecdo
Richard Snowden Andrews [electronic resource]: lieutenant-colonel commanding the First Maryland Artillery (Andrews' Battalion) Confederate States Army, a memoir . lying him with a truss whichgives him relief and under the terms of the order,he proposes to remain still longer, hoping mean-time that its withdrawal will enable him still tobe my associate. Very respectfully, (Signed) T. S. Rhett. on the staff of Prince Frederick Charles. About twenty yearsafter the Confederate war he visited the United States andwhile in Baltimore was a guest of Major W. Stuart Symingtonto whom he told this anecdote: Prince Frederick Charles oncevisited me at my home and there saw on the wall his own por-trait and underneath it a portrait of General J. E. B. looking at them he turned to me and said, von Borcke, Iam going to ask a favour of you: I want you to change theposition of these portraits and put General Stuart on top: any-thing I may know about cavalry I learnt from him. Von Borcke afterwards wrote a book called Twenty YearsAfter. He belonged to a German family of great antiquity: infact there is a German saying, Old as von Borcke or the Colonel T. S. RHETT. Confederate States Artillery. From a photograph taken in Berlin, 1864. A MEMOIR 137 Paris, October 1st, I. Gorgas, Chief of : I am glad to say that at last the instrumentsfor inspecting guns, &c, [are ready] at least soI am informed, and I shall go at once to Englandto examine them and write you the method ofusing such as are peculiar Of course I am morti-fied that they have taken so long at E. to makethem, but it is impossible to hurry these peoplemuch and the truth is that some of the instru-ments require much time. They are no doubt asperfect as it is possible to make them. I proposeto remain but a very short time and then willhurry to Vienna, being now supplied with someletters, which will open many doors to me. * *Some time ago I suggested that you should orderif possibl
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