Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

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Excerpt from Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: Commandery of the District of Columbia The farther we get away from the war, the more certain phases of our military experience stand out in perspective to the exclusion of other incidents, which at the time we considered of greater importance. Thus, places and dates which go to the making of regimental histories become obscured in favor of the overshadowing view - the making of the volunteer cavalryman. Three incidents bearing on this line of thought are insistent in my recollection, for they show the raw material at the start, and culminate in the gratifying assertion of General Sheridan after his return from the Franco-Prussian War, that his Cavalry Corps, as he left it in 1865, could whip any equal number of cavalry on the face of the earth. The first of these three incidents relates to the time when General McDowell with 40, 000 strong, encompassed Washington, endeavoring to organize an army fit to assume the aggressive. "Bull Run Russell, " the correspondent of the London Times, asked him one day why he did not send a cavalry reconnaissance toward Fairfax Court House to ascertain what the enemy might be doing. General McDowell is said to have answered that he had not in his whole command an officer of experience whom he could send. It is doubtful if General McDowell ever said it, but it was believed to be true over the country, and the publications, from the more ponderous magazine article to the most pretentious country weekly editorial, did not hesitate to enlarge upon such a state of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.