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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
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ble the force the enemycould collect from all quarters. I had men enoughwith me to have won Chancelorsville without the cav-alry and other corps, but of what use could a field ofbattle have been to me when the enemy could fall backa few miles and post himself on a field possessing stillgreater advantages to him ? General Grant did this,and is entitled to all the merit of his soldiership from agrateful country. I believe if he had sacrificed everyofficer and soldier of his command in the attainmentof this object, the country would have applauded him.When I crossed the Rappahannock I aimed to captureGeneral Lees whole army and thus end the war, bymanoeuvring, and not by butchery. While his superior in command did little that waspractically useful with the cavalry, Kilpatrick coveredhis little band with glory, and gave the people of Rich-mond a scare as great as Stuart administered to ourQuaker friends in Pennsylvania during his famousforay into the border counties of the Keystone State.
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»i** Iff- ~ THE HARRIS LIGHT AT ALDIE. J 47 Their return was almost immediately followed by thesecond grand cavalry battle of Brandy Station, Juneninth, 1863, a struggle as hotly contested as anythat occurred during the war. In this encounterSergeant Willard Glazier took part, leading the firstplatoon of the first battalion that crossed the Rappa-hannock. Matters were now assuming a warlike aspect.The Valley of the Shenandoah groaned beneath thetramp of the main army of the Confederacy, underLee. The Federal general, Pleasanton, and the Con-federate general, Stuart, were in fierce conflict amongthe Blue Ridge mountains. At Aldie, on the seventeenth of June, 1863, theHarris Light led the division under Kilpatrick,Glaziers squadron again being the advance guard—hisplace at the head of the long column which wounddown the road. As they came upon Aldie, the ene-mys advance, under W. H. F. Lee, was unexpectedlyencountered. But Kilpatrick was equal to the occa-sion. Dashing to the front,

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