The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

WITH GENERAL SHERIDAN. 213
tlic cavalry, with patience, i^allantry, antl devolioii, follouid this
teacliiiiLj, ami reiulered themselves ca[)abie of prohtiiii; by the
Ljlorious opportunities which later cainpaii^iis afforded.
We now found that Grey;t^'s excellent divisicMi — althouj^di
envying the i^ood fortune of their old comrades who had been
pluckiiiL; laurels on Ixuseback in the battles of the Shenandoah
Valley— had increased the reputation ot the cavalry in some
des})erate enL;ai!;ements, dismounted, in the woods at Deep IkH-
tom ami on the Hoydton I'lank Road; and so, when the old
corps was reunited, its blended honors were not surpassed in
any corps (_)f the army.
Now the troo[)s were spoken of always with respect, often
with atlmiration. They had shown themseK'es the peers of the
best of the infantry side by side with them on hard-fouL;ht fields,
and artillery asked no better support. They had been tried in
every jihase of warfare, and never been found wantin;j;. Their
tlepleted ranks hatl been filled with the best of xolunleers —
ilrafted men and substitutes beinj^ seldom put into cavalry—and
the new men cjuickly fell into the old men's wa)'s and l)oldly
followed their file-leaders into battle. The whole cor[)s was
animated by the best spirit, an.Kious for victory and willin;^ to