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Probably, from returned prisoners, and such conscripts as can be picked up, his numbers may be kept up. I estimate his force now at about sixty-five thousand men. Wilson started on Monday, with twelve thousand cavalry, from Eastport. Stoneman started on the same day, from East Tennessee, toward Lynchburg. Thomas is moving the Fourth Corps to Bull's Gap.
Thus another of my cavalry divisions was badly damaged, and out of the fragments we hastily reorganized three small divisions under Brigadier-Generals Garrard, McCook, and Kilpatrick. Stoneman had not obeyed his orders to attack the railroad first before going to Macon and Andersonville, but had crossed the Ocmulgee River high up near Covington, and had gone down that river on the east bank.
Langdon excitedly seized a diminutive bellboy passing by and planted him alongside his hat. "Stay there a moment, sonny," he cried. "You are the Fourth Virginia." The newspaper Stoneman was carrying came down opposite the startled bellboy, who was trying not to appear frightened. "This is the clump of cedars," he exclaimed.
It seems that Stoneman, finding the escape of all his force was impossible, had made arrangements for the escape of two divisions. He covered the movement of these divisions to the rear with a force of about seven hundred men, and at length surrendered himself and this detachment to the commanding Confederate.
But we were not much afraid when it was light enough, so that imagination could not picture them creeping stealthily behind us. Our gallant Company C, officered by Captain Bartlett and Lieutenants Stoneman and Stone, was ordered to another post early in August; and its departure caused such universal regret that no one supposed Company H, under Captain Frisbie, could fill its place.
After a hard day's march we halted near New Kent Court House; where General Stoneman, with his cavalry, had a day or two before overtaken the rear-guard of the enemy, who gave him battle. Evidences of the engagement were to be seen all about us, and many wounded cavalrymen were found in the neighboring farm houses.
General Hooker assumes Command of the Army of the Potomac. Demoralization. Reorganization. A Cavalry Corps. General George D. Stoneman in Command. Death of Sergeant May. Forests of the Old Dominion. The Cavalryman and his Faithful Horse. Scenes in Winter Quarters. Kilpatrick. His Character. Qualifications of the True Soldier. A New Horse. A Mulish Mule. Kilpatrick's Colored Servants in Trouble.
As Stoneman's sentence was the first to expire, he gave him points, and it was plotted between them that the prison itself should be burglarized by Stoneman on a certain night after his release. The confidential man was to leave the way clear to the safe where the silver bars used in the business were stored.
To save time, I will send a copy of this to General Stoneman, so that he can begin his preparations without loss of time, and can commence his correspondence with you as to these preparations.
Stoneman surrendered, and remained a prisoner until he was exchanged some time after, late in September, at Rough and Ready. I now became satisfied that cavalry could not, or would not, make a sufficient lodgment on the railroad below Atlanta, and that nothing would suffice but for us to reach it with the main army.
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