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Tango01 | 13 Nov 2015 3:30 p.m. PST |
… and the Joy of the Fight. ""The Battle of Tom's Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was "the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war." The fight took place during the last autumn of the Civil War, when the Union General Phil Sheridan vowed to turn the croprich Shenandoah Valley into "a desert." Farms and homes were burned, livestock slaughtered, and Southern families suffered. The story of the Tom's Brook cavalry affair centers on two young men who had risen to prominence as soldiers: George A. Custer and Thomas L. Rosser. They had been fast friends since their teenage days at West Point, but the war sent them down separate paths-Custer to the Union army and Rosser to the Confederacy. Each was a born warrior who took obvious joy in the exhilaration of battle. Each possessed almost all of the traits of the ideal cavalryman-courage, intelligence, physical strength, innerfire. Only their judgment was questionable. Their separate paths converged in the Shenandoah Valley in the summer of 1864, when Custer was ordered to destroy, and Rosser was ordered to stop him. For three days, Rosser's gray troopers pursued and attacked the Federals. On the fourth day, October 9, the tables turned in the open fields above Tom's Brook, where each ambitious friend sought his own advancement at the expense of the other. One capitalized upon every advantage fate threw before him, while the other, sure of his abilities in battle and eager to fight, attempted to impose his will on unfavorable circumstances and tempted fate by inviting catastrophe. This longoverlooked cavalry action had a lasting effect on mounted operations and influenced the balance of the campaign in the Valley. Based upon extensive research in primary documents and gracefully written, awardwinning author William J. Miller's Decision at Tom's Brook presents significant new material on Thomas Rosser, and argues that his character was his destiny. Rosser's decisionmaking that day changed his life and the lives of hundreds of other men. Miller's new study is Civil War history and high personal drama at its finest."
See here link Was Custer THAT good in the ACW? Amicalement Armand |
Garryowen | 13 Nov 2015 4:50 p.m. PST |
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Bill N | 13 Nov 2015 7:37 p.m. PST |
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Bill Rosser | 14 Nov 2015 3:27 a.m. PST |
I may have to pick this one up. |
BW1959 | 14 Nov 2015 5:48 a.m. PST |
That looks like a good book, will have to get this one |
donlowry | 14 Nov 2015 9:52 a.m. PST |
Sheridan called Custer "the ablest man in the Cavalry Corps." His sterling performance (and fame) in the ACW is what made his defeat and death at the Little Big Horn so shocking. |
Tango01 | 14 Nov 2015 10:27 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys. Amicalement Armand |
John Miller | 14 Nov 2015 6:25 p.m. PST |
I'm a Custer fan. Gonna have to get it. Thanks Tango, John Miller |
Tango01 | 14 Nov 2015 10:53 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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