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Corpus Christi was not to be considered for a single moment, compared to Pleasanton and an Episcopalian service. What could I do? At an early hour Mrs. Martin withdrew. The reaction from our escapade had left a pallor on my sweetheart's countenance, almost alarming. Noticing this, I took my leave early, hoping that a good night's rest would restore her color and her spirits.
They were alert, well-built fellows and examined Harry closely, a process to which long usage had reconciled him. "I hear that the rebels are down in that valley, comrade," he said. "So they are," replied the elder and larger of the men. "We've got to ask you who you are and which way you're going." "John Haskell, Fifth Pennsylvania, with dispatches from General Meade to General Pleasanton.
Harry gave the officer a wary and suspicious look, and then his eyes brightened as if he were satisfied. "I told you I was riding with a message," he said, "and that message is for General Pleasanton. It's from General Meade himself and it's no harm for me to show it to so good a patriot as you." "No, I think not," said the captain, flattered by the proof of respect and confidence.
On the contrary, we know the road so well that we'll save you wandering about and losing time." Harry did not dare to say more. And so Providence, which had been watching over him so well, had decided now to leave him and watch over the other fellow. But he had at least one consolation. Pleasanton was on Lee's flank and their ride did not turn him from the line of his true objective.
And now, when she beheld Aunt Isabel's enchanting house, the solid, substantial furnishings left behind in Cherryvale lost all their savour for her, even the old-fashioned "quaintness" of grandma's house. For Aunt Isabel's house was what Pleasanton termed "artistic."
Already he had found in Stuart's captured baggage instructions for the campaign, showing that the whole Southern army was on its way toward the great valley, to march thence northward, and he resolved instantly to break up this advance as much as possible. Pleasanton pressed forward again, and Stuart prepared to meet him.
I should like to try them, if not more than two to one." "Good!" said Pleasanton. "The right feeling, though a little imprudent. You are a young officer, Captain Crawford, but they tell me you have dash, and that sounds like it. Dash is what we want, if we can only have steadiness with it. Your eyes are younger than mine how many of those rebels are there?"
But with that wariness also came a daring which the Union leaders in the east had not usually shown hitherto. They had a strong cavalry force in three divisions on the other side of the river, and the commanders of the divisions, Buford, Gregg and Duffie, with Pleasanton over all, were forming a bold design. Events were to move fast for Harry, much faster than he was expecting.
But the dashing one-armed hero was fated to be killed prematurely, and it was not until 1863, that Pleasanton, Buford, Gregg, Kilpatrick, and Custer began to make the Union troopers an important factor in the war; and Sheridan did not take command of the cavalry corps, to handle it as such, until the spring of 1864.
He entered upon his duties the first of January, 1871, and although in several instances I had occasion to control his purposes in regard to contracts and to the refund of taxes, I did not feel called upon to mention the facts to the President. In May the President said: "I have come to the conclusion that Pleasanton is not succeeding in his office." I replied: "That is so."
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