Dabney Herndon Maury

Name: Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. — 10
Author: Dabney Herndon Maury

Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

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“Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. — 10”, published in 1894, is a work by Dabney Herndon Maury. It explores elements such as Fort Union, Toots and Greer.

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ Long afterward, near Fort Wise, I shot an antelope and broke his hind leg. Toots chased him with me for fully two miles, and caught and held him until I seized his horn and knifed him. Game was so plentiful then on the western frontier that there were few days in which we could not have good sport. My own experience in the field convinced me that there was no animal so wary, so enduring, and so dangerous as the wild bull of Texas. I except the grizzly bear always, who has not his equal for fierce and aggressive courage in all the catalogue of wild beasts. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ One day a grizzly came down from the mountains and crossed the route of the column. Jackson coolly rode out to encounter the animal, armed only with his sabre. His horse was blind in one eye, and, by keeping that side turned to the bear, Jackson was able to get close to him. At his approach, the grizzly, nothing loath, rose on his hind legs ready for a fight, and Jackson cleft his skull with his sword. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ Like the hare, however, he is timid, and, when headed off or turned, becomes bewildered, loses his running, and is easily caught.
Thus it was that Toots one evening started an antelope, and was running him along the little valley of he creek that watered Fort Union, when I galloped to head him where he would come out upon the prairie, over which the ten greyhounds were spread out "breasting." These, seeing me running, all took up the run in the same direction, and as the antelope came out upon the plain he saw a circle of enemies closing around him, and hesitated, bewildered. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ Three times a week in the season we would have the pack out to kill a wolf. As the prairie sloped gently up to the edge of the Turkey Mountains, some five miles distant, we had a good course in full view of the garrison, and almost always caught the wolf before he could reach the timber. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ Possum, invariably in the lead, would thrust his long snout between the wolf's hind legs as he closed on him, and toss him over his back, where he would hold him until the rest of the pack came up, when he was soon killed. Sometimes the riders would be up in time to beat the dogs off and tie up the wolf, taking him home for another day's run. Occasionally we would get an antelope, and Possum always threw him in the same way. No animal is so fleet as the antelope, with a good start and a fair field before him. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ There were many heartbreaking scenes enacted in those days upon our frontiers, and no Indians were more often the participants in them than the Apaches and Comanches, with whom we had to deal. After a man has been brought face to face with them in many years of frontier service, he is inclined to agree unreservedly with General Sheridan's verdict regarding a "good Indian."
We reached Fort Union in good time and with all of our horses in fine condition. ”

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Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican… (1894)

“ We passed one year at Fort Union, at the end of which the news of John Brown's capture of Harper's Ferry. Then the Indians cut off mail communication, and we heard no more for many weeks, when by a system of escorts between the Rifles and the First Cavalry our mail route was re-established, and a sergeant brought me a letter from Lieutenant Jeb Stuart, congratulating me upon my promotion to a captaincy in the Adjutant General's department, with orders to repair to Santa Fe, then the headquarters of the department of New Mexico. ”

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