… Our Cavalry During the Campaign Against Lee. Fifteen Battles Fought Within Sixteen Days. The Battles of Hanover, Hunterstown, Gettysburgh, Monterey, Smithsburgh, Hagerstown, (3) Williamsport, (3) Boonsboro, (2) Funkstown, Antietam Creek and Falling Waters:The Results---Incidents---The Night Attack Upon the Enemy's Train, &c. THE BATTLE AT HANOVER. THE BATTLE AT HUNTERSTOWN. THE BATTLE AT SMITHSBURGH. THE BATTLE OF HAGERSTOWN AND WILLIAMSPORT. THE BATTLES AT AND NEAR BOONSBORO, FUNKTOWN AND ANTIETAM CREEK. THE SECOND BATTLE AT HAGERSTOWN. THE LEFT AT WILLIAMSPORT GEN. BUFORD'S DIVISION. THE RIGHT AT GETTYSBURGH. WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. THE FLYING ARTILLERY.
"In addition to the battles of Beverly Ford, Aldie Middleburgh and Upperville, now matters of history. I have to record fifteen more engagements of our cavalry with the enemy, in thirteen of which cavalry was exclusively used, with flying artillery -- all within sixteen days. I have already furnished you with brief accounts of these battles as they have transpired -- such as could be hastily prepared when prostrated by fatigue produced by physical exertion and the loss of sleep, and laboring under the depressing effect of a relapse from the wildest excitement and while seated on the wet grass or under a dripping tree -- valuable time, in which companions sought repose. But how describe fifteen battles in sixteen days? To do the subject justice would require the pen of a VICTOR HUGO and as much time as was consumed in the preparation of Lee Miscrables. Surrounded as I am at this moment by all the paraphernalia of actual war, deadly contest still raging within hearing, aye, within full sight of my temporary abode, fully expecting the enemy to force me upon the road at any moment, should our arms meet with. but a temporary and even the slightest reverse -- It is impossible to describe with that minuteness of detail desirable, the scenes of strife that have passed under my own observation in the brief space of time mentioned. The whole scene, as reviewed at this time, seems more like a dream than a reality. Fighting by day, and marching and sometimes fighting at night, in thunderstorms, crossing mountains and fording swollen rivers -- with a wily, relentless foe both in front and flank, made desperate by his situation -- a river in his rear, with only one pontoon and almost without a train, and a large victorious army in front pressing him into his lair…"
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