Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that, as a partisan officer, I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and... Stonewall Jackson: a Military Biography - Page 167by John Esten Cooke - 1876 - 587 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Walter Wayland - History - 1912 - 576 pages
...General Ashby bore to my command for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His...divining the purposes and movements of the enemy. 5. Capt. Miller died at his home in Elkton, June 16, 1889. Upon the old flag he saved may still be... | |
| Percy Cross Standing - Guerrillas - 1913 - 338 pages
...a woman's." It is significant that so fine a judge of men as Stonewall Jackson wrote of him that " his daring was proverbial, his powers of endurance...sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes of the enemy." If he had survived, he must have attained to a very great position in the Confederate... | |
| Fauquier County (Va.). Board of Trade - Fauquier County (Va.) - 1914 - 50 pages
...General Ashby bore to my command for most of the previous twelve months will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His...proverbial, his powers of endurance almost incredible, his character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purposes and movements of the enemy."... | |
| Royall Bascom Smithey - Virginia - 1915 - 300 pages
...appointed a brigadier general in 1862, and was distinguished as a cavalry leader. Of him, Jackson wrote: "As a partisan officer, I never knew his superior....divining the purposes and movements of the enemy." To defend Virginia was the one which for two years has defended its capital against the approach of... | |
| Lyon Gardiner Tyler - Virginia - 1915 - 854 pages
...of General "Stonewall" Jackson mentioned in the above quotation was couched in these decided terms : As a partisan officer I never knew his superior; his...divining the purposes and movements of the enemy. Captain Thomas Ashby died in 1752, leaving a will, probated in Frederick county. Virginia, in which... | |
| Harry Miller Strickler - German Americans - 1925 - 494 pages
...Ashby: "As a partisan officer, I never knew his superior; his power of endurance almost increditible; his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining the purpose and movements of the enemy." (Jackson's official report of the battles of Cross Keys and Port... | |
| William Henry Tappey Squires - Dwellings - 1928 - 428 pages
...Ashby bore to my command for the most of the previous twelve months will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his powers of enduring almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive in divining... | |
| Henry Kyd Douglas - History - 1940 - 444 pages
...General Ashby bore to my command, for most of the previous twelve months, will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His daring was proverbial, his power of endurance almost incredible, his tone of character heroic, and his sagacity almost intuitive... | |
| Mechanization, Military - 1922 - 492 pages
...General Ashby bore to my command for most of the previous twelve months will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His...divining the purposes and movements of the enemy." 150 At the beautiful cemetery of the University of Virginia, where Turner Ashby now lies in a vault... | |
| Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 592 pages
...General Ashby bore to my command for most of the previous twelve months will justify me in saying that as a partisan officer I never knew his superior. His...divining the purposes and movements of the enemy." The gallant Marylanders, under Colonel BT Johnson, aide'd by the Fifty-eighth Virginia, had a bloody... | |
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