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Title: Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Baylor, George, b. 1843
Subjects: Virginia cavalry. 12th regiment, 1862-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Virginia Cavalry 12th Company B
Publisher: Richmond, B. F. Johnson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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teand far in advance of his military leaders in the field. Whilethere were apparent inconsistencies in his life, they can bereconciled, when they are critically examined, and his per-sonal acts, which are purely his own, and his official acts,which in a large degree emanated from the head and heartof his ministers and advisers, are separated and analyzed. Healways leaned to the side of mercy and humanity, and hisfaults, if faults they were, may be attributed to overzeal in thisdirection. Certainly, if he did not fully comprehend thefatherhood of God, he realized to its fullest extent the brother-hood of man. My judgment as to the character of Mr. Lincoln is notfounded so much on the writings of biographers (for suchtestimony must always be received with many grains of allow-ance), as upon his conduct and actions through those fouryears of severe trial. He emerged from that conflict a greatman. His death was a serious loss to the entire country—greater to the South than to the North.
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Wm. S. Thomson. CHAPTER XXI. Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges,Shooting under arches. Rumbling over bridges.Whizzing through the mountains. Buzzing oer the vale.Bless me, this is pleasant. Riding on the rail! Saxe. About the first of the new year (1865) the company wasordered to report to the command, then encamped nearSwopes Depot, some five miles west of Staunton, and, withsad hearts, we bade acheu to our friends in the lower Valleyand joined our regiment. We found sufficiency of foodneither for ourselves or our horses. The weather was bittercold, and the ground was covered with snow. After hunger-ing and shivering in this camp some three weeks, we wereagain ordered to the lower Valley. General Sheridan was still at Winchester, and his namerecalls to my mind Byrons Corsair— He left a Corsairs name to other times,Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes. The character of the warfare waged by this commander canl)e best learned from his own orders, a few of which

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