Fleetwood Hill Map (Brandy Station)

Confederate Wizards of the Saddle: Being Reminiscences and Observations of ..., By Bennett Henderson Young:

AKA Brandy Station

Stonemans' Raid

 

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See Stoneman's Raid Historical Marker in Hendersonville, North Carolina

Garden In Hendersonville, North Carolina

Peter Seabury Schuyler At New Madrid

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59-14

OVS, 51

Folder 12, Doc 12

At New Madrid, MO, while on General Granger's Staff...

From My Heritage:
Peter Seabury Schuyler, 1826 - 1879
...born to Anthony Dey Schuyler and Sarah Schuyler (born Ridg).
Anthony was b. October 18, 1785, in Point Pleasant, Ocean County, NJ.
Sarah was b. ca 1788, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
11 siblings: Mary Ridg Montgomery (born Schuyler), William Ridg Schuyler and 9 other siblings.
Peter m. Sarah Thompson Schuyler (born Hayes)...1855..MI
Sarah was born on January 15 1835, in Marshall, MI.
They had 2 sons: Andrew Livingston Schuyler and one other child.
Peter passed away on month day 1879, at age 52 at death place, Michigan.

FindAGrave Memorial (middle name differs).

Forrest's Raid In Tennessee

 

Report To Colonel L. C. Baker

The call to Lincoln's Avengers:

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Morgan And The 2nd Michigan Cavalry (1862)

Kentucky (Not Barren County)

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Second Michigan Cavalry At Perryville

Modern-day Kentucky (Not Too Far From Perryville)

Perryville Battlefield (2nd Michigan Cavalry)

Squier, Martin L., 32,  C Quartermaster Sergeant

Squires, John H., 28,  C Corporal (Discharged at Louisville, KY on 10/20/1862)

Perryville, Kentucky (Source)

"Near Perryville October 6-7, it was involved in a skirmish near “Pottsville” against Joseph Wheeler’s Cavalry, a few miles west of Peter’s Hill. At the Battle of Perryville on October 8, it had 4 men killed, 13 wounded for a total of 17 or 5.7% of the 300 men it took into action." (Source)

Held The Whole British Army At Bay

 Early on the 26th [September] his [William Richardson Davie's] patrols were driven in by the enemy's light troops, and in a few moments the legion and light infantry were seen advancing, followed by the whole army. Davie was reinforced in the night by a few volunteers under Major Joseph Graham. Charlotte was then a village of about twenty houses, built on two streets, which crossed each other at right angles. At their intersection stood the court-house.

Colonel Davie dismounted one company and stationed it under the courthouse, where they were protected by a stone wall. The other two companies were advanced about eighty yards and posted behind some houses and gardens. The legion formed at a distance of three hundred yards with a front to fill the street. On sounding the charge the enemy's cavalry advanced at full gallop, but at sixty yards from the courthouse the Americans opened fire and drove them back with great precipitation. A second and third charge had the same result. Yet, being outflanked by the legion infantry, Davie withdrew his companies in good order, successively covering each other, and retreated on the Salisbury road.

1770 Map Of North Carolina (LOC)
See Salisbury Road

The enemy followed with great caution and respect for some distance, when they at length ventured to charge the small rear guard. In this charge Lieutenant Locke and four privates were killed and Major Graham and five privates wounded. The coolness and skill of Davie in this ever memorable combat, in which, with a mere handful of men, he held the whole British army for hours at bay, and drove back repeatedly its best troops, and finally brought off his command unbroken and in good order, stamp him as a soldier of no ordinary capacity. [Source]

25th Of September In Charlotte

See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here. 

On the evening and night of the 25th he [General William Davie] took a number of prisoners, and at midnight took up his position at Charlotte, seven miles from the spot where Earl Cornwallis had encamped.

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24th Of September

M. Fiffers (Top Center) and Rocky River (Lower Right) (Source of 1770 Map - LOC)

See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here. 

On the 24th of September the American patrols gave notice that the force of the enemy was in motion on the Steele creek road, leading to Charlotte. Generals Sumner and Davidson retreated by *Phifers on the nearest road to Salisbury. Colonel [William] Davie, with one hundred and fifty mounted men and some volunteers under Major Joseph Graham, was left alone in front of the British army, and he was ordered to observe the enemy and skirmish with his advance.

*Phifer's beyond Rocky River and now in Cabarrus County [Source]

On The 5th Of September

On the 5th of September, 1780, [General William] Davie was appointed by Governor Nash colonel commandant of cavalry in the western district of North Carolina, with instructions to raise a regiment. When he had collected only about seventy men, with that force and two small companies of riflemen commanded by Major George Davidson, he took post at Providence, twenty-five miles from the British camp.

Remnants Of  Tree In Camden, South Carolina

Cornwallis, after resting at Camden till the first week in September, had advanced to the Waxhaws, forty miles below Charlotte, while the fragments of the American army were slowly gathering at Hillsboro, two hundred miles distant. South Carolina was wholly subjugated and North Carolina had not recovered from the shock of Gates's defeat.

See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here.  

Morgan's Raiders Overtaken

"General Morgan's great anxiety was to get to this ford before Shackelford's force, which was then traveling a parallel road."

"We were then running for dear life with empty guns as well as empty stomachs, but alas, the mountain made a bend to the right and ran us right into the arms of Shackelford's parallel force." (Source: The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army)

Morgan's Raid

See Morgan's Raid 

"When Morgan's Raid occurred in July, 1863, under his Rebel force, which entered Ohio in the southwestern part of the State, over two thousand strong, their course was through the southern and eastern tiers of counties, and they reached Harrison County on Friday."

" General Brooks, in command of the United States forces at Pittsburgh, sent an order to me at Steubenville to take charge of two regiments, which were sent down on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and have them placed along the Ohio River, to prevent Morgan and his Rebel forces from crossing the river into West Virginia, which was evidently his purpose. One regiment was stationed at the mouth of Rush Run, and the other at Portland, at the mouth of Short Creek. Morgan, learning through his scouts that these regiments were awaiting him, crossed over Short Creek below the town of Mount Pleasant, and came on through Smithfield and as far as New Alexander."

Squier At 4 Mile Creek

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 

Second Michigan Cavalry: Monthly Returns, 1864

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 Doc 8

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 Doc 11   

"In pursuit of Forrest near Tullahoma, Tenn."

Lieutenant Martin Squier, et al, 2nd Michigan Regiment of Cavalry 

September, 1864

Grant' Laconic Reply

Source (Not In Virginia)

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Battle of Hawe's Shop, on 28 May 1864, in Hanover County, Virginia, was described at Wikipedia.

GAR Post 384's Account Of The 2nd Michigan Cavalry

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Mexican Campaign Via Upshur County

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The author George C. Furber, was "engaged in the practice of law in Germantown.., " joined the 'Eagle Guards...' (Company G), after the May 24, 1846, Proclamation by the Governor.

In Texas, "we called at the next house, got some milk but could get no bread; the woman told us that they had to send thirty miles to mill--a horse mill, at that; fifty miles, in another direction, to a blacksmith's shop; forty miles to the nearest post-office, and seventy-five miles to a store, for sugar, coffee, calico; and not even a paper of pins, or a spool of thread, could be got under that distance. Yet her house is fixed upon as the county-seat of Upshur county...".

"Leaving this, we rode on, overtook the wagon, and, by steady traveling, got into the camp at sunset*."
 

See map of Texas counties in 1846.

Dogs Of War?

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"...a number of Wisconsin three-months men captured by Forrest in his raid into Memphis.  Many of them had their legs badly lacerated by dogs in their futile efforts to escape." [Source]

The Classmates

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The Classmates

"Friends, and even relatives, who had enlisted on opposite sides... . Here, caught by the camera, is one of the many instances.  On the left sits Lieutenant J. B. Washington, C. S. A., who was an aide to General Johnston at Fair Oaks.  Beside him sits Lieutenant George A. Custer, of the Fifth U.S. Cavalry, aide on McClellan's staff, later famous cavalry general... . Both men were West Point graduates, and had attended the military academy together.  On the morning of May 31, 1862, at Fair Oaks, Lieutenant Washington was captured by some of General Casey's pickets.  Later in the day his former classmate ran across him and a dramatic meeting was thus recorded by camera."

When In Canada

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"About this time *certain gentlemen in Canada began to be unenviably known. I make no charges against those whom I do not know, but simply say that the Confederate agents, Jacob Thompson, Larry McDonald, Clement Clay, and some others, had already accomplished enough villainy to make Wilkes Booth, on the first of the present year, believe that he had but to seek an interview with them."

*certain gentlemen in Canada"[Obituary of ] Col. Robert Maxwell Martin of Louisville, Ky., one of General John H. Morgan's Confederate troopers. He was in the [February 1864] plot to abduct Vice President Johnson on his way to the inauguration, succeeded to the command of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, and in last days of the war, when in Canada, formed the plot to abduct Johnson." [Source]