. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. river. The Pediculus made its deadly assaults with equal per-sistency and determination, while the soldier was on themarch, in the full tide of battle, around the camp-fire orin bivouac in the deep sleep of exhaustion. It never al-lowed itself to be repulsed, never retreated from its posi-tion ; except, indeed, to occupy a stronger one, neverceased its attacks and annoying movements, nor stoppedits ferocious warfare, except when literally crushed. Itwas rightly named, by the unanimous voice of
. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. river. The Pediculus made its deadly assaults with equal per-sistency and determination, while the soldier was on themarch, in the full tide of battle, around the camp-fire orin bivouac in the deep sleep of exhaustion. It never al-lowed itself to be repulsed, never retreated from its posi-tion ; except, indeed, to occupy a stronger one, neverceased its attacks and annoying movements, nor stoppedits ferocious warfare, except when literally crushed. Itwas rightly named, by the unanimous voice of the wholearmy, the Gray-back; and in order that the future sol-dier of the Republic may ever be on his guardagainst its fearful assaults, and recognize it ata glance, its portrait is here inserted. It did not always kill at first assault, but bypersistent attacks generally u got there; andall through the campaign, if a man or an offi-cer was mysteriously missing, it was currentlyreported, and generally the fact, that the Gray-backs had got him. Another horde of blood-thirsty adjuncts of rebeldom. ltU Mntlij and t/i> Curnlry. were likewise the assailants of the army during this ad-vance; not, however, with the slow, persistent, infantry-like inovenienisof the , hut in rapid, tremendoussprings, and cavalry-like saber lunges and dashes : theywere the wicked ileus. which no man of any sense,pursues. They were left in myriad numbers, in all thehouses, out-houses, sheds, stables, and tenements, in allthe country abandoned by the rebels; and so irrepres-sible were their assaults, when their chosen habitationswere invaded, that whole companies, and even regiments,were driven from buildings as quicklv, and with fargreater disorder, than they would have been by the ex-plosion of shells crashing through their ranks from apark of rebel artillery In this ionise, the enemv, though small when viewed asan individual, was astonishing in activity, and in eachseparate stable and she
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