. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT 19H. PATRIOT PUB. CO. WAITING ON GRANT AT BETHESDA CHURCH, JUNE, 1864 officers to discuss his orders with him freely wlienever it was possible m 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 residt was an eager, confident, hard-riding staff that st
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT 19H. PATRIOT PUB. CO. WAITING ON GRANT AT BETHESDA CHURCH, JUNE, 1864 officers to discuss his orders with him freely wlienever it was possible m 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 residt was an eager, confident, hard-riding staff that stopjied at no danger, whether tohorse or man. \Miat was even more important, its members did not hesitate to assume responsibility. [G-14]. AN ESCORT THAT MADE HISTORY These men and boys formed part of the escort of General Grant <liiriiij; the Appomattox campaign. Thesame comi)anies (B, F, and K of tlie Fifth Tliited States Cavalry, under Captain Julius W. Mason) werewith liim at the fall of Petersburg. iVrhaps 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 fell reassured as to the safety of its geniial-in-chief. The little boy
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