. "The red neck ties." . o, who under command of a vet-eran officer did excellent service making possible thecapture. Fanny is now (April, 1890), most comfortablyhoused on the farm of Capt. Win. F. Weller, at Liv-erpool, N. Y., this officer having taken her home asa trophy of the war and kindly and tenderly cared forher since. 88 FIFTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY. This noble animal, now thirty-three years old,has two fine colts, aged respectively twenty-one andtwenty-three years, living on the same farm to cheerher old age. She also carries a bullet in her underjaw, received at the skirmish near Wayn
. "The red neck ties." . o, who under command of a vet-eran officer did excellent service making possible thecapture. Fanny is now (April, 1890), most comfortablyhoused on the farm of Capt. Win. F. Weller, at Liv-erpool, N. Y., this officer having taken her home asa trophy of the war and kindly and tenderly cared forher since. 88 FIFTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY. This noble animal, now thirty-three years old,has two fine colts, aged respectively twenty-one andtwenty-three years, living on the same farm to cheerher old age. She also carries a bullet in her underjaw, received at the skirmish near Waynesboro, Va.,while ridden by the officer in charge at the time ofher capture. The wound did not disable her, and she contin-ued on Hunters raid to Lynchburg and back to thecamp at Cumberland, where she became the propertyof Capt. Weller, who rode her in all the subsequentbattles and marches up to the time of Lees surrender. She is the only surviving animal of the regimentknown, and was present at several of our \ V—fT \\A i i iwM ; / hi &> H / ■ !/1 ^,^V^%:^A% FANNY. FIFTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY. 91 COMMUNICATIONS FROM COMRADES. THE LAST CHARGE MADE IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC ; THE LAST SHOT FIRED, AND THE LAST UNION SOLDIER WOUNDED. BY ALBERT O. SKIFF, CAPT. CO. A, I5TH N. Y. CAY. Letting my thoughts wander back oer the crueldays of bloody war, I find that the remembrance of the8th of April, 1865, is still written upon the tablets ofmy memory in characters so vivid that it has failedto become erased by the years, which since that timehaving winged their flight into the past, and as suchreminiscences always warms up and sends rushingthrough our veins the sluggish blood that has beenlying dormant for over twenty-four years, once moreit brings to mind the time when to our ears camedaily the shrill notes of the bugle, the clanking ofthe sabre, the rumbling of the wagon trains, the sternwords of command, and lastlv the wild carnage ofthe battle-field. And as I have
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