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THE WARFARE OF THE BORDER 15
lays it upon a white shirt, if he has one, as carefully as a surgeon
places his instruments on a white towel. In addition, he
touches each piece as a man might touch the thing that he
loves. The words of command are given in low tones, as if in
the silence there might be found something in mitigation of the
assassination. Again, he is noisy or indifferent to his purposes.
He acts then upon the belief that doomed men, whose sense of
hearing is generally developed to the greatest acuteness, lose
effect in this advance upon the unknown.
And how patient they were-these Guerrillas. One day, two,
three-a couple of weeks at a stretch-they have been known
to watch a road-cold it may be, hungry most generally, inex-
orable, alert as the red deer and crouching as the panther. At
last a sudden ring of rifles, a sudden uprearing of helpless
steeds with dead men down under their feet, and the long vigil
was over, the long ambuscade broken by a holocaust.
Much horse-craft was also theirs. Born as it were to the
bare-back, the saddle only made it the more difficult to unseat
them. Create a Centaur out of a Bucephalus, and the idea is
fixed of their swiftness and prowess. Something also of
Rarey's system must have been theirs, as a matter of course, for
the Guerrilla was always good to his horse. He would often go
unfed himself that his horse might have corn, and frequently
take all the chances of being shot himself that his horse might
come out of a close place unhurt. In situations where a neigl
would amount almost to annihilation, even so much as a whinny
was absolutely unknown. Danger blended the instinct of the'one
with the intelligence of the other. For each there was the same
intuition. Well authenticated instances are on record of a
Guerrilla's horse standing guard for his master, and on more
than one occasion, when cut off from his steed and forced to
take shelter from pursuit in fastnesses well nigh inaccessible,
the Guerrilla has been surprised at the sudden appearance of his
horse, no more desirous than himself of unconditional captivity.
Much, therefore, of humanity must have entered into the rela-
tionship of the rider with his steed. He had to blanket him of
nights when the frost was falling and the north wind cut as a
knife; he had to talk low to him, rest him when he was tired,
feed him when he was hungry, spare the spur when there was no
need for it, slacken the girth when the column was at rest, cast
Object Description
| Title | Noted guerrillas, or the warfare of the border |
| Author | Edwards, John N. (John Newman), 1839-1889 |
| Description | A history of the lives and adventures of Quantrell, Bill Aderson, George Todd, Dave Poole, Fletcher Taylor, Peyton Long, Oll Shepherd, Arch Clements, John Maupin, Tuch and Woot Hill, Wm. Gregg, Thomas Maupin, the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, Arthur McCoy and numerous other well known guerrillas of the West |
| Subject.LCSH |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Southwest, Old -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Guerrillas |
| Subject.Local | Quantrell, William Clarke, 1837-1865; Quantrell, Charles William, 1837-1865; Quantrill, W. C. (William Clarke), 1837-1865; Hart, Charley, 1837-1865 Anderson, William T. |
| Coverage | United State -- Missouri |
| Source | St. Louis, Mo. : Bryan, Brand & Company, 1877. |
| Language | English |
| Date.Original | 1877 |
| Date.Digital | 2004 |
| Type |
Books and pamphlets |
| Format | JPEG |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact contributing institution for information. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library Special Collection, University of Missouri - Columbia at (573) 882-0076 or email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
Description
| Title | civm000003p0015 |
| Description | THE WARFARE OF THE BORDER 15 lays it upon a white shirt, if he has one, as carefully as a surgeon places his instruments on a white towel. In addition, he touches each piece as a man might touch the thing that he loves. The words of command are given in low tones, as if in the silence there might be found something in mitigation of the assassination. Again, he is noisy or indifferent to his purposes. He acts then upon the belief that doomed men, whose sense of hearing is generally developed to the greatest acuteness, lose effect in this advance upon the unknown. And how patient they were-these Guerrillas. One day, two, three-a couple of weeks at a stretch-they have been known to watch a road-cold it may be, hungry most generally, inex- orable, alert as the red deer and crouching as the panther. At last a sudden ring of rifles, a sudden uprearing of helpless steeds with dead men down under their feet, and the long vigil was over, the long ambuscade broken by a holocaust. Much horse-craft was also theirs. Born as it were to the bare-back, the saddle only made it the more difficult to unseat them. Create a Centaur out of a Bucephalus, and the idea is fixed of their swiftness and prowess. Something also of Rarey's system must have been theirs, as a matter of course, for the Guerrilla was always good to his horse. He would often go unfed himself that his horse might have corn, and frequently take all the chances of being shot himself that his horse might come out of a close place unhurt. In situations where a neigl would amount almost to annihilation, even so much as a whinny was absolutely unknown. Danger blended the instinct of the'one with the intelligence of the other. For each there was the same intuition. Well authenticated instances are on record of a Guerrilla's horse standing guard for his master, and on more than one occasion, when cut off from his steed and forced to take shelter from pursuit in fastnesses well nigh inaccessible, the Guerrilla has been surprised at the sudden appearance of his horse, no more desirous than himself of unconditional captivity. Much, therefore, of humanity must have entered into the rela- tionship of the rider with his steed. He had to blanket him of nights when the frost was falling and the north wind cut as a knife; he had to talk low to him, rest him when he was tired, feed him when he was hungry, spare the spur when there was no need for it, slacken the girth when the column was at rest, cast |
| Source | Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare on the Border |
| Type | Books and monographs |
| Format | JPEG |
| Identifier | civm000003p0015.jpg |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact koppk@umsystem.edu for more information. |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library special collection at: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
