. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WAITING ON GRANT AT BETHESDA CHURCH, JUNE, 1864 officers to discuss his orders with him freely whenever it was possible in the course of an engagement orbattle, to learn his views as fully as possible, and in great emergencies, where there was no time to com-municate with headquarters, to act on their own initiative along the lines laid down by him without hisspecific orders. The result was an eager, confident, hard-riding staff that stopped at no danger, whether tohorse or man. What was even more important, its members did not hes
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . WAITING ON GRANT AT BETHESDA CHURCH, JUNE, 1864 officers to discuss his orders with him freely whenever it was possible in the course of an engagement orbattle, to learn his views as fully as possible, and in great emergencies, where there was no time to com-municate with headquarters, to act on their own initiative along the lines laid down by him without hisspecific orders. The result was an eager, confident, hard-riding staff that stopped at no danger, whether tohorse or man. What was even more important, its members did not hesitate to assume AN ESCORT THAT MADE HISTORY These men and boys formed part of the escort of General Grant during the Appomattox campaign. Thesame companies (B, F, and K of the Fifth United States Cavalry, under Captain Julius W. Mason) werewith him at the fall of Petersburg. Perhaps they won this high distinction by their intrepid charge atGaines Mill, when they lost fifty-eight of the two hundred and twenty men who participated. With suchgallant troopers on guard, the North felt reassured as to the safety of its general-in-chief. The little boy
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