Four Years In The Saddle [Illustrated Edition]

Colonel Harry Gilmor

• Publisher: Golden Springs Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786251237
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
The brutal occupation of Baltimore in 1861 by the Federal troops under Benjamin "Beast" Butler, would be the final straw for many Confederate leaning Marylanders. One such was Harry Gilmor, imprisoned for his political beliefs and his service in the Baltimore County Horse Guards, he was determined to join the Southern forces. As soon as he was released from prison he travelled as fast as possible to join the troops under Colonel Turner Ashby; by March 1862 he was commissioned as a captain of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry. He set to his task with a passion earning much glory fighting under Jackson in the Valley campaign, even being entrusted with special missions by the great general himself. His military star was on the rise and he began to gain a sterling reputation as a cavalry commander often employed in scouting, raids and ambushes. He was in action at the Battle of Brandy Station, in the Shenandoah Valley and led the famous "Raid Round Baltimore" in 1864. Despite all his cunning and daring the tide of war turned against him and his Confederate comrades and he was captured in February 1865 in Hardy County. As a successful Confederate raider the Federal press had heaped calumnies upon him and his men, so after the war he wrote these memoirs to set the record straight.
A dashing read of a famous Confederate cavalry officer.

LXI.

WHEN near the office I was accosted by a familiar friend, who grasped me warmly by the hand, and, when he left, there was a package of bank-notes within my palm.

I spent the night in Major Wiegel’s office, and lay in my overcoat on a pallet. Young and his men staid with me. Major Young provided a good supper, and, after a capital breakfast next day, given us by Major Wiegel, we left in the cars, reached New York the same evening, traveled all that night, and arrived in Boston at 7 A.M. on the 10th of February, 1865.

The major escorted me to the United States Hotel, where I should have enjoyed a good breakfast but for the crowd of men and women huddled together, gazing at me from every direction.

Major Young kindly accompanied me about town to make some purchases, and then conducted me to my prison home. Its gates closed upon me, and I had struck my last blow for the South. Though fully entitled to my exchange as a regularly commissioned officer, it was soon quite apparent that the government designed, if possible, to keep me back among those from whom this right was to be arbitrarily withheld.

On my arrival her...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE.
• I. - SEPTEMBER, 1861.
• II. - SEPTEMBER, 1861.
• III. - DECEMBER, 1861
• IV. - DECEMBER, 1861.
• V. - FEBRUARY, 1862.
• VI. - MARCH, 1862.
• VII. - MARCH AND APRIL, 1862.
• VIII. - MAY, 1862.
• IX. - JUNE, 1862.
• X. - JUNE, 1862.
• XI. - AUGUST, 1862.
• XII. - SEPTEMBER, 1862.
• XIII. - DECEMBER, 1862, to FEBRUARY, 1863.
• XIV. - FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1863.
• XV.
• XVI.
• XVII. - APRIL, 1863.
• XVIII. - JUNE, 1863.
• XIX. - JUNE, 1863.
• XX.
• XXI. - JUNE, 1863.
• XXII.
• XXIII. - JULY, 1863.
• XXIV. - SEPTEMBER, 1863.
• XXV. - OCTOBER, 1863.
• XXVI.
• XXVII. - DECEMBER, 1863.
• XXVIII. - DECEMBER, 1863.
• XXIX. - DECEMBER, 1863.
• XXX. - JANUARY, 1864.
• XXXI. - FEBRUARY, 1864.
• XXXII. - MAY, 1864.
• XXXIII. - MAY, 1864.
• XXXIV. - MAY, 1864.
• XXXV. - MAY, 1864.
• XXXVI.
• XXXVII. - JUNE, 1864.
• XXXVIII. - JUNE, 1864.
• XXXIX. - JULY, 1864.
• XL. - JULY, 1864.
• XLI. - JULY, 1864.
• XLII.
• XLIII. - JULY, 1864.
• XLIV.
• XLV.
• XLVI.
• XLVII. - AUGUST, 1864.
• XLVIII.
• XLIX.
• L.
• LL
• LII. - SEPTEMBER, 1864.
• LIII.
• LIV.
• LV.
• LVI. - OCTOBER, 1864.
• LVII.
• LVIII. - OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, 1864.
• LIX. - FEBRUARY, 1865.
• LX.
• LXI.