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Updated: June 5, 2025
The incident was certainly a funny one in itself, but I should not have cared to repeat it had not the official records of Sturgis's defeat by Forrest in the Tishimingo affair later in the year emphasized the mischief of lax habits as to temperance. The judgment of his superiors and of those who knew him well was made severer by the knowledge of his weakness in this respect.
The charging regiments were advanced in line to the crest above the bridge as soon as they were deployed, and the rest of Sturgis's division, with Crook's brigade, were immediately brought over to strengthen the line.
All that night long Jem wandered up and down the narrow precincts of Ben Sturgis's house. In the little bedroom where Mrs.
Then she noticed that Mrs. Sturgis's keen eyes were upon her, and swiftly drove the expression from her own eyes and returned Thornton's greeting indifferently. Some day her uncle would accuse this man, but she did not care to give her personal affair over to the tongue of gossip, nor did she care to have her name linked in any way with Buck Thornton's. "May I have this dance, Miss Waverly?"
The attacks at the Burnside bridge were made under my own eye. Sturgis's division occupied the centre of our line, with Crook's brigade of the Kanawha division on his right front, and Willcox's division in reserve, as I have already stated.
Ninth Corps positions near Antietam Creek Rodman's division at lower ford Sturgis's at the bridge Burnside's headquarters on the field View from his place of the battle on the right French's fight An exploding caisson Our orders to attack The hour Crisis of the battle Discussion of the sequence of events The Burnside bridge Exposed approach Enfiladed by enemy's artillery Disposition of enemy's troops His position very strong Importance of Rodman's movement by the ford The fight at the bridge Repulse Fresh efforts Tactics of the assault Success Formation on further bank Bringing up ammunition Willcox relieves Sturgis The latter now in support Advance against Sharpsburg Fierce combat Edge of the town reached Rodman's advance on the left A. P. Hill's Confederate division arrives from Harper's Ferry Attacks Rodman's flank A raw regiment breaks The line retires Sturgis comes into the gap Defensive position taken and held Enemy's assaults repulsed Troops sleeping on their arms McClellan's reserve Other troops not used McClellan's idea of Lee's force and plans Lee's retreat The terrible casualty lists.
Why, then, blame the man of today for a zealous attention to the modern equivalent, the Quest of Scratch! Mortimer Sturgis never became a scratch player, but he did eventually get his handicap down to nine, and I honour him for it. The story which I am about to tell begins in what might be called the middle period of Sturgis's career.
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