This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "I have for a long time intended the publication of this book, for I thought that such a work would not only be found interesting to the public, but would do justice to the brave men with whom it was my fortune to be associated during the dark hours of the rebellion. My descriptions of battles and skirmishes, in some cases, may seem too brief and unsatisfactory; to which I can only say that scores of engagements, which to the participants appear to be of vast importance, have very little general interest. On the other hand, however, it is to be regretted that where our gallant horsemen have done the most brilliant things, it has been impossible for me, in many instances, to secure reliable and detailed accounts with which to do them full justice."
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Thomas Coleman Younger. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (Civil War Memoir)
Three Years in the Federal Cavalry (Civil War Memoir)
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PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE WAR FOR THE UNION — CONTEST BEGUN
CHAPTER II. CAMP-LIFE AND ITS INFLUENCES
CHAPTER III. PREPARATIONS FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
CHAPTER IV. THE ADVANCE TO THE RAPPAHANNOCK
CHAPTER V. POPE'S CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
CHAPTER VI. REBEL INVASION OF MARYLAND
CHAPTER VII. McCLELLAN SUCCEEDED BY BURNSIDE
CHAPTER VIII. ORGANIZATION OF A CAVALRY CORPS
CHAPTER IX. REBEL CHIEFS AND THEIR RAIDS
CHAPTER X. CHANCELLORSVILLE AND STONEMAN'S RAID
CHAPTER XI. FROM YORKTOWN TO FALMOUTH
CHAPTER XII. SECOND INVASION OF MARYLAND — GETTYSBURG
CHAPTER XIII. RETREAT OF THE REBELS FROM GETTYSBURG
CHAPTER XIV. KILPATRICK'S GUNBOAT EXPEDITION
CHAPTER XV. CAPTURE OF THE AUTHOR
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Thomas Coleman Younger
Civil War Memories Series
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After the battle of Kernstown, in which Jackson received the sobriquet of "Stonewall" and a sound thrashing, General Banks, who had set out for Warrenton, returned to the Valley, and pursued Jackson, but was unable to bring him to bay. The enemy's cavalry under Colonel Turner Ashby was frequently attacked by the Union Cavalry under General John P. Hatch. On the sixth of May, the Fifth New York Cavalry, First Ira Harris Guard, had a hand to hand encounter with Ashby's men near Harrisonburg, where Yankee sabres and pluck had established a reputation. A portion of the same regiment under Colonel John R. Kenly, at Front Royal, added new lustre to their fame, on the twenty-third of the same month, during "Stonewall's" flank movement on General Banks at Strasburg, and fought bravely during that memorable retreat to Maryland.
At this juncture of affairs, a division of General McDowell's forces, under General Shields, was dispatched to the valley to intercept Jackson, while General John C. Fremont was ordered by telegraph to the same scene from the Mountain Department. But unavoidably detained by almost impassable mountain roads and streams enormously swollen by recent rains, Fremont reached Strasburg just in time to see Jackson's last stragglers retreating through the town. His pursuit was very rapid, though no engagement was brought about until the fifth of June, at Harrisonburg. Here Colonel Percy Wyndham, on our side, and Turner Ashby, now a general, on the Rebel side, distinguished themselves in the cavalry. Ashby was killed. His loss was greatly lamented by his comrades. He always fought at the head of his men, with the most reckless self-exposure, and for outpost duty and the skirmish line he left scarcely an equal behind him in either army. His humaneness to our men who had fallen into his hands caused many of them to shed tears at the intelligence of his death. Men of valor and kindness are always worthy of a better cause than that in which the Rebels are engaged; but their merit is always appreciated.
