saddle-fast

Updated: May 5, 2025

Things are better now than they were; a Federal cavalryman can at least sit saddle-fast, to receive and return a sabre-cut; there have been some sharp skirmishes of late, and, allowing for exaggeration, Averill's encounter with Fitzhugh Lee brought out real work on both sides.

George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence - Border and Bastille