Crag-Nest: A Romance of the Days of Sheridan's Ride

Excerpt from Crag-Nest: A Romance of the Days of Sheridan's RideThe morning breeze from the front bore to them irregular thud of cannon; 'the morning sun gilded the dust they spurned behind them to Obscure - then and since - the distanced staff and guard in their rear.Little Phil and big, black Rienzi were taking that Sheri dan's Ride, which has given motif for more picture, song, story and misstated history than any other single function of the war.Saying this is no tittle of disparagement to the most noted and successful cavalry leader of the Union side; and I have little doubt that the sturdy and commonsensible - ii sometimes slightly profane - sabreur was as much amused as were many cooler think ers, at the wild acclaim over a feat which dwindles to nothingness, beside the straining test of a Confederate scout; indeed, of more than one of his own couriers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.