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Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
Subjects: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he nights fray. Bayard was to attack onthe main road in front, but not until Kilpatrick hadcommenced operations on their right flank, by a detourthrough a narrow and neglected wood-path. As theHeights were considered well-nigh impregnable, it wasnecessary to resort to some stratagem, for which Kil-patrick showed a becoming aptness. Having approached to within hearing distance of therebel pickets, but before we were challenged, Kilpat-rick shouted with his clear voice, which sounded like atrumpet on the still night air: Bring up your artillery in the centre, and infantryon the leftV Well, but, Colonel/ said an honest though ratherobtuse Captain, *■ we havent got any inf— Silence in the ranks! ? commanded the leader.Artillery in the centre, infantry on the left! The pickets caught and spread the alarm and thusgreatly facilitated our hazardous enterprise. Charge! was the order which then thrilled theranks, and echoed through the dark, dismal woods; t3 Q > H > o r Kod H 5 S3H DO
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\ 1 PRIVATIONS OF A SOLDIER. 127 and the column swept up the rugged heights in themidst of blazing cannon and rattling musketry. So steep was the ascent that not a few saddles slippedoff the horses, precipitating their riders into a creekwhich flowed lazily at the base of a hill; while othersfell dead and dying, struck by the missiles of destruc-tion which filled the air. But the field was won, andthe enemy, driven at the point of the sabre, fled uncere-moniously down the heights, through Falmouth andover the bridge which spanned the Rappahannock,burning that beautiful structure behind them, to pre-vent pursuit. This engagement, while otherwise of but littleimportance, was valuable because it taught the enemythat the Federals could use the cavalry arm of theservice as effectively as their infantry. All accounts agree that Corporal Glazier acquittedhimself very creditably in his first battle. After theaction was over he accompanied his comrades to thefield and contributed his best aid

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