"Rosecrans and Buford?" Topic
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| donlowry | 15 Oct 2016 9:54 a.m. PST |
On 1 October 1863, as Joe Wheeler began a raid against the Army of the Cumberland's supply lines, Gen. Rosecrans asked Gen. Halleck to send him Brig. Gen. John Buford from the Army of the Potomac to command his cavalry. (Stanley, normal commander of his Cavalry Corps, was on sick leave, and his replacement, Mitchell, wasn't feeling all that well either.) Does anyone know of a connection between Rosecrans and Buford? Did they know each other? Serve together in the pre-war Army? Or did he only know him by reputation? |
| Onomarchos | 15 Oct 2016 10:23 a.m. PST |
Rosecrans was an instructor at West Point during the years that Buford was there, so they did know each other. However, I would suspect that the request was based on Buford's reputation from the Gettysburg campaign. Mark |
| Wackmole9 | 15 Oct 2016 1:37 p.m. PST |
I think Buford was already sick and headed for his death bed at the time. |
| Onomarchos | 15 Oct 2016 3:08 p.m. PST |
No, he didn't become sick until late November and he died in mid-December |
| John Thomas8 | 15 Oct 2016 10:58 p.m. PST |
It woulda been interesting, Buford vs Hampton/Lee at Trevilian Station, instead of Sheridan. |
| rmaker | 16 Oct 2016 7:55 p.m. PST |
Rosecrans was an instructor at West Point during the years that Buford was there, so they did know each other Everybody knew everybody else in the Old Army – the officer corps was that small. |
| donlowry | 19 Oct 2016 3:21 p.m. PST |
I would suspect that the request was based on Buford's reputation from the Gettysburg campaign. Today, long after the event, we know that Buford did well at Gettysburg and in the pursuit of Lee, but how well was it know generally only a couple of months after? Enough that Rosecrans, whom one would think had better things to do than read detailed newspaper accounts of the Gettysburg campaign while commanding his own army holed up at Chattanooga, would have been aware of it? |
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bases them up.
