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 IT is curious Ii<>\v impartially Uk- hirth- 
 placLS of lliL' most illustrious actors iu 
 the late- civil war. of whom thcrt; arc ouly 
 two stirvivors. were <listril)utc(l throu.nliout 
 
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 WILl-lAM ll.-.KKI'.K CrSlMM 
 
 the rtiitcfl States. The two i)resi(lents of 
 that period. I.iucolu auil I)a\is. were ua- 
 tives of Keutucky ; (iiaul, Sluruiau aud 
 Stanton of Ohio ; Seward aud Sheridan of 
 New York : Thomas, Lee, Joseph Iv. J<>liu 
 vSton and •• Stonewall " Jackson were born 
 in \'irj{inia : l-"arra,i;ut and I'orrcst iu 
 Tennessee; Hancock. McClellan aud Acl- 
 miral Porter in I'eunsyhauia : Andrew- 
 Johnson in North, and l-reniont in .South, 
 Carolina ; I,on'4;.street in Alabama ; I5eau- 
 rcgard in Louisiana ; Cliasein New liami)- 
 
 shire, and Adams and Sninncr in Massa- 
 chusetts, while the Northwest jjave us the 
 \iiun,t; na\al hero and le bean sabrenr 
 who are the sidjects of this sketch. 
 
 • .\11 history," re- 
 m a r k s liniersou. 
 •• resolves itself into 
 the bioijraphies of a 
 few stout and ear- 
 nest persons." The 
 fust of thesi' two 
 stout and e.\cee<l- 
 iuj^ly earnest per- 
 sons with whom we 
 ha\e to do iu this 
 l)apei, William i!ar- 
 ker Cushin.y. was 
 born in Jielafield. 
 Wisconsin, Noveu - 
 ber 4. 1S42. After a 
 few \ ears' attend- 
 ance at the iMcdonia 
 academv , Chantau- 
 (pui county. New 
 \"ork. to which state 
 the family had re- 
 moved after his fa- 
 ther's death, \<'un^ 
 Cushinj^ received in 
 1S53 the ])osition of 
 l)a^e in the House 
 of Representatives, 
 l-'our \ ears later he 
 was a])pi)inted a ca- 
 det at the luiled 
 States Naval Acad- 
 em\ at Annapolis. 
 Oushiuj.;- resij;iied 
 March Ji. iS(.i , and 
 in May he \olun- 
 teered in the navy, was made a master's 
 mate, aud the ver\ day after his .irrival 
 at Hampton Roads captured atul bronj;ht 
 into ]>ort a tobacco schooner, the tlrst ]jri/.e 
 of the war. He was attached to the North 
 .\tlautic blockading s(|uadrou. and re- 
 jieatedly distin}.ruisheil himself b\- suc- 
 cessful acts of darinj;. Cushinjj was com- 
 missioned lieutenant in July iS()j, and in 
 N(i\eml)er he was ordered to the ste.nuer 
 MUis, to c.iptine Jacksonville, T'lorida, in- 
 tercei)t the Wilminj^ton, North Carolina, 
 

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 mail and (Ustmx tin.' salt woiks al New aiuon^ llu' iiu>st ilariiiL; of tlu- foiii wars' 
 
 Iiikl. I If i'a|>liirt(l a lai l;v mail, took two war. was tlii' (kstnu'lioii, on tlu' iii.ii;lit of 
 
 C'liiiriili ralf pn/.is, ami sIkIIkI a Coiikil <)i-l()l)ir 2~. iShj, (iftliL' CoiilVikialt- iimi- 
 
 ii.itt.' lamp, 1ml was imahlf lo rniss Uu- olad Alht-mark-, wliicii l'"aiiai;iil said to 
 
 bar llial iii^lil. and in Uw morninj; tla- tlii' wrilcT he- dL-cnu-d llic most dannlkss 
 .sUanur was aiJi()iin<l. TIiu 
 
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 SKCTION AM> M.AN nV Till: AMll-.M AK I.I.. SIICIWINC. 
 AMI I'lllNT Ol' ATTACK. 
 
 naval dcvd c-vt-r jitTfoniU!! 1)\' any xounj^f 
 oHu'cr of {\\u Aniciii-an naN\ . This jiow- 
 L-i fill \L'SS(.l had siu'ccssfidly (.luoiinUiLd 
 a stron.u tktl of I'V-diral i^unhoals and 
 foii^lil llicni for si\(.ral liouis w itlic t siis- 
 tainiiii;' malarial dania.uL-. Tlurf was 
 nothing- in llic norllicrn sniiadron ahk- to 
 cojif with her, as was the rase- with the 
 Meiriniao, nntil Worden. with the Moni- 
 tor, ap])eared in Hamilton Roads. Cusli- 
 injr volunteered to destroy the Alheniarle, 
 and with a steam launch and asm.ill erew 
 he ascended the Roanoke ri\er, towin.^ an 
 armed cutter. 'I'lie river was lined with 
 ]iickets to .miard a.i^ainst just such an at- 
 tack as this, hut the lieutenant's luck did 
 not desert him, and he was within a hun- 
 dred yards of the ironclad ram before he 
 was disco\ered. Casting ofl'tlie cutter, lie 
 firdered lur crew to attack a i)icket post 
 nearliN. while, with a full liead of steam, 
 he drove the launch strai<;ht 
 at the lui.ue vessel, whose 
 crew rushed to (juarters and 
 at once ojieiied fire, Ciishin};- 
 re]il\in!L;" elVectivel\" with his 
 howit/er. A circle of heavy 
 loj::s, hoonied well out from 
 her side, with the very pur- - 
 pose of ]ire\entin,u; the action " 
 of torjiedoes, was discoxered 
 by the younj; hero, but the 
 boat was driven o\er them, 
 as they had become slimy, and by the time 
 the launch received her death wound from 
 the eneni\"s _sruns, Cnshinj.r had cof)lly 
 vSwuuij the torpedo boom under the .\lbe- 
 inarle's overhan<j or bottom and exploded 
 the cliarjje. Ordering his crt;w to look (jiit 
 
 Tin; i.iii. iiiioM 
 
 for them.selvcs he sprang 
 into the liver, swam under 
 water as fir as possible, and 
 in the darkness escaped 
 alone, reachiiiii- the ojijiosite 
 bank half a mile below. As 
 soon as 1k' recoxeri-d his 
 strength he iilun^ed into 
 till' ditise swam]) and, after 
 Mian\ hours of wcar\ waii- 
 dei inland wadiu;,^, cauKout 
 uiioii the shore of a creek, 
 where with his usual yood 
 luck he found a small jiicket 
 boat, and at t!e\en o'clock 
 the followin.iL;' iii.i;lit, almost 
 dead from cold, hun^ei and 
 fati.iLiue, Cushini.;- was carried 
 oil board the X'alley City, a I'liited vStates 
 .nuniioat. .\s soon as it was known that 
 he had returned after destidyiiij;- the Alhc- 
 inarK- lock-ls were rejoicin<rly thrown up 
 by e\"; ;, \ issel of tile Heel. 
 
 I)e]iri\ed of the jirotection of the .\lbe- 
 marle, the s(|iia<hdn soon cajjlnred 1'1\ in- 
 outh and the surroundiiiiL;" coiintr\'. ( »f 
 the .nallant fellows whc volunteered to risk 
 their lives with the fearless Cushini;. but 
 oneescai)ed, all the others beiii.y either 
 drowned, killed or captured. The lieu- 
 tenant had little expectation of escajiiuij 
 death or imprisonment in carryin<.;- out his 
 dangerous enter])ri.se, in which, as he said 
 to the writer, the chances were ten to one 
 •if^ainst him. To his brother oflicers he 
 
 Tin; i;scAi'i; ipk (.fsiii.xi;. 
 
 remarked as he was settinjj out to destroy 
 theironclad : " Anotherstripeor acotlnil " 
 I'ive times he was otTiciallx C()m])limented 
 by the vSecretar\- of the Navy, and for the 
 atTair of the .Albemarle he received the 
 thanks of Conj;;ress — the youn!,rest Amer- 
 
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 ican c\xr so honored -and was piuinott-d 
 lu lliu rank of liculfnant i-oiiiiiiaiulcr. It 
 may he safely assorted lliat the naval his- 
 tory of Ihf world affords no ollu-r (.xanijtk- 
 of snch marxxUons coolness and profes 
 sional skill as that exhibited 1)\ the younji 
 heroof only Iwenty-lwo in tlu destruetioii 
 of the Alheniarle. 
 
 At l"ort I'isher, under a constant atid 
 lieav\- lire, C'nshinij;^ buoyed out the chan- 
 nel in a small skiff, continuing; tlie dan- 
 j,reronswork forsix hours, until completed. 
 At the final assault he led a force of sailors 
 and marines from the Monticello in an 
 attack on the sea front of the fort, and 
 amid an unceasing; lire at short ranjic, 
 which cut down nuuiy of his men, he 
 crossed kk) yards of sand, rallied his 
 force ;md aflorded such efficient .service 
 to the troops that before midnight I"ort 
 l-'isher was surrendered, .\fter the close 
 of the war Cushiui;- served in the I'acific 
 and Atlantic sciuadrous, beinjr in command 
 
 of the sleamei' Lancaster in 
 is'i'i 7 and of the .Mauinci' in 
 i.S(i.S-(,. ( >n the retiuii of the 
 latter vessel to the I lliled 
 Stales he was ad\aniid lo the 
 }.;rade of Conunaiidir in Jan- 
 uary \'^~2. beitij.; the \oi;n,iiist 
 ollicer of that rank in the 
 Anuiican na\ \ . His iKallh 
 diinaudin^resl and relief Imni 
 duly 1h' w.in ailowi-d lea\e of 
 absence. l)Ul his i-oustitulion 
 was couipletelx' nndiiniim-d 
 by exposure and ovir ixir- 
 tion. and he died of bi.iin 
 fever in Washiuylon, Disliict 
 of Cohinil)ia, December 17, 
 iS7.4,at the earl\ a,i;e of thirty- 
 two, leavin<f behind him, in 
 the words of I.ord !'>> ron : 
 
 • !-"aiiK' moti' lliaii iniiiiv;h In tr:uk 
 lii- nuiiini \ . ' 
 
 A \essel of our tiew navy 
 has ])ro](eil\ and most ap])ro- 
 ])riately been named the Cush- 
 in^ in his honor. 
 
 ( )ur other \ o u n ;.; hero, 
 fieoriie .\rnistronj; Custei , the 
 son of an nhio farmer, was 
 born in Harrison countv, I)e- 
 cember5, iS.V). He was "graduated at the 
 I'nited States Military academy in June 
 I.'^'>l. the lowest but one in his class, owiu^ 
 to his loce of fun and mischief Cnstir 
 used lan<.jhin<;ly to claim, in later years. 
 that it re(|uired more skill to },cra<hiate next 
 to the foot of the class than at the head, as 
 to keej) within one of jioiu!; out and \ et 
 escape beins; dropped was a serious ])rol)- 
 lem. He ])f>ssessed yreat strength and 
 was a pood as well as fearless rider, taking 
 the hij,diest lea]) ever made at West Point, 
 with a sinijle exce])tion, when, in 1S41, 
 Cadet r. vS. (irant. monnte<l on •• \'ork,'' 
 a jiowerfidly built chestnut sorrel, cleared 
 a bar rai.sed six feet and five inches, the 
 highest jumji recorded in the military 
 records of the old world or the new.* 
 Custer was so eajrei Ibr active duty that 
 he declined the usual leave of absence ami 
 immediately rei)orted at Washing; ton. 
 ('■eneral Scott j^ave him despatches to 
 carrv to McDowell, tlien in comman<l of 
 
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 .iiid his hnisi- kilK-d. I ii- tnnk 
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 a.uainsl Uirhiiiniid tin.- Michi- 
 gan liri.Ltadi- iiiadi- a iiinsl .^al- 
 l.iiit li.ulil .il 'I'li-v i-llinii sta- 
 tinn, lint sn ;;n.-al w.is Ihi-ir 
 luril th.il the i-nlors of llu- lui- 
 i;a(k- wi-ix- only s.i\i-d iVnni ra])luri.' 1)\' 
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 lu-ld tiy till- ilyin.L;si.-r;4i.aiit and rniu'i-.ilin.:^' 
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 vSlalis arm\ fnr -,illaiilr\ al llu- li.iltU- nf 
 
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 r.i)itiiriii- .ill Illll mil- nf his -mis .\i 
 i.'i d.ii iiiik lu Imiulit llu i-m-iii\ liniii 
 llu liisl .lUack in tin- mniiiiim until llu 
 liatlK- i-lnsiil Ilis divisimi 1 ( r.ipl 111 1 ik 
 lii-'nii till d.i\ W.IS n\ 1 I L;nns and tkiys 
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 Kiilininml, thc'riiinl di\ isinii alniu- Inn;.; hi 
 and won tlu- lial I K nf W'av m slmm. i .ipliii 
 
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 ill!.;' S(.-\fnl(.(--n stands nf rnlnis, t.-li.-\i.n 
 V.nns. Jiin w a^nlls and Mmn ]MisnIK-I s ! I'nr 
 i.;allanl si-r\ iii.-s al I'ivi- l-'mks .iiid Pin- 
 widdic Cnnil ilnnsi-. L'iisti.-r w.is liit-w-lUd 
 hi i^adicr-mnrial in Uk- rniU-d Slates 
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 iii'^- tin- li.isl M\ iiKiiitli-. .illlmii-li ill iin-l iiwiwuli i.iinliir,: lli<- num. imh- i ii-.i-i 
 
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 Ciistir was ]itisiiil at llic suminUt of 
 CuiKial I. II'. Ill- is tlms iKsciil)t<l hv a 
 CoiifickTalt.- laplaiii wlut was with tlu' 
 tmops iiiaisliallid in line for sihiiikU'I : 
 " Dciwn ill. it liiuiaiiu* niural CiisUr. Il\ 
 Ills yilluw hair and lM»yish fare he is known 
 to all of tis. N\ar llu' rinln- of i1k> lini' 
 111' tiiiiis lo his hand ami onKis it to jdax' 
 • Dixii'.' As llu- marvellous strains of iIk' 
 Cotifitkiati' war -ony lloat in liiniid swiil 
 iK'ss aronnd ns. wc- linak intot\nnnllnoiis 
 I'littrin};. Ciiiural Cnstcr waves his hat 
 and a Ihonsand .L;allanl soldiirs in Mnc 
 (iasli tlRirrajis inlluair. Smh was< Ifn 
 cral Cnsttr in thf prtscm-i- of a iM.ii<|ncrnl 
 fof." In IIk- sanii.- tnonlh. April, C'listcr 
 was ajJpoinU'd Major-^iiaral of XOlnn 
 Uxrs. I Ic partiripatc-d in all Imt oni- of 
 tlif important hatlks fon^jht In tin.- Ann\ 
 of tile I'otoniac. ami had clevin hoists 
 shot niidcr him witlioiit <.v«.r luitiji^ seri- 
 ously woiindi'd. A fill' till' war ilose'd he 
 led his fanions di\ ision of ravaliy for the 
 last time on Mav 2;^. |S'>5. in the uraiKl 
 review of the two _<;reat armies of the east 
 andthewest hy the president and his cabi- 
 net and (leiieral Ciratit, on whieh oeeasion 
 Ciisler"s hij;"li-si)irite<l th( onj^hliied he- 
 canie frij^diteiied and ran away with him. 
 On the second day that veteran army ap- 
 peareil, whose drnms had heeii heard from 
 Ohio lo the .sea and hack a,u:ain to the To- 
 lomac. What mighty cheers from a hun- 
 dred thousand S])ectators filled the air as 
 Sherman passed alonj;' i'ennsyhania ave- 
 nue at the liea<l of those invincible veter- 
 ans who had marched throujrh eiglit rc- 
 l)ellioiis states I With what an easy, care- 
 less, accurate swiii";- the {.jaunt veterans 
 moved forward I How weatherl)eaten and 
 bron/.ed, and how din^y. as if tlie smoke 
 of numberless battlefields had dyed their 
 well-worn jiarnients and the soil of camps 
 and battlejifounds had adhered to them I 
 And the llaj^s tliey carried I Terrible is an 
 army with banners, if tho.se banners are 
 riddled and torn by the shot and shell of a 
 liundred hotly contesteil fields. Iklmonl. 
 Donelson, Shiloh, \icksbur<j:. Chattanoo- 
 j;a, Resaca, Atlanta and Hent(mville are 
 a few of the n;inies that were written in 
 bullet holes on the tattered and weather- 
 beaten banners. Hut no other .standards, 
 however jjorijeous with new Ijeanty, could 
 be lialf so interestiii};- to the thoujrhtfnl 
 observer, and it is not surprisinj^ that the 
 usually calm and impassive cemntenance 
 
 of Ciranl ,i;lowed with diip feelinii- as the 
 historic colofs weicbonu aloii;.; ii\ tlu' men 
 wjio had followiil his xictorioiis t(iiiise 
 from Cairo to \ icksbm;.;. and fimii \irks- 
 biiijx hail marclud with Sherman throU}.;li 
 the verv ciiitrc of the Confe<krac\ . I'n- 
 fect liarmon\ ptcvaikil anioui; llie parti- 
 sans of both ariniis of the l'otoiii,ic and 
 of Ilk' 'reiiiiessee. The countrx was proud 
 of them, and tluir n\ iew was the most 
 ma;.jnilicent militarx' spectacle e\er wit- 
 nessed on the.Xnierican continent. As the 
 (juiet dis|iersion of a million of well .sea- 
 '-'oned soldiers, w ho laid asidi' their swords 
 to iitiirn to the iiatlis of ])e;ice, it was per- 
 haps the {.riandest and most sij^Miilicant 
 eventof the niiieteinth cititurx . Said Mr. 
 ("dadstoue to the- writer: •• If I were an 
 American there is no pa;.;e in her history 
 of wliiili I should feel so ]>roiid." 
 
 .\fler the re\ii'W < 'uneral Custer w,is sent 
 toTexas to command .1 division of <;ivalrv 
 and remained on this dutv till March i.S(/>, 
 when he was niustereil out of the \-olun- 
 teer service. He then a]iplii(l to the War 
 department for permission to accept from 
 rresident Jiiare/ the jilace of chief of the 
 Mexican c.ivalr>- in the stru.y,-,tjle a,uainst 
 Maximilian. I lis application was re- 
 fused, and Custer joined the Seventh ca\'- 
 alry at port Rile\' as lieutenant-colonel, 
 serving;' on the ])lains for three years and 
 winninj;- the Imlian battle of Wachita. In 
 1S71 he was .sent with his rei;imeiil to 
 Kentucky, remaininjr there two years. In 
 the spriii},^ of 1S7; Cu.ster went to Dakota 
 and accoini)anied .an expedition to the 
 Yellowstone, fi^jhtinj; two en<ra{;emeiits 
 with the SioiiN Indians. Injul\ 1S74 he 
 led a e'olumn into the JUack Hills, which 
 resulted in a hitherto nne.x])lored re};iim 
 beinjr opened to civilization. In May 1S76 
 he marched ayfainst the Siou.x Indians, 
 who were discovered enciinii)ed on the 
 Little Hijr Horn river. Oil the25th of June, 
 without waiting; for the infantry, as he was 
 ap])rehensive the enemy would escajie. 
 an attack was made by a portion of the 
 rejjiment under ^Nlajor Reno, Avliich w.i.s 
 repulsed. Still nnccmvinced of his mis- 
 take, Custer charsjfed on another ])art of the 
 field, fijjhtinjj aijainst overwhelming' num- 
 bers of well-armed fex'S and nunnentarily 
 expectinjj to l)e joined b\' Reno, who was 
 then in retreat. .\t the end of a fierce but 
 hopeless flight the heroic le.ider, with his 
 277 followers, formed a bivouac of the dead. 
 
 
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 fuM. wliiih ill 1S7., was iiiailc a national <liil\ . 110 nialtcr liow ilisptiati 
 iiimlnv. A iMoiui- 
 
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 K'rasion. 
 
 .ikk aiiv 
 
 ami lit' 
 
 IIRIll lirnrdill;; the 
 
 iiaiiH' and tank cilall 
 who will' slain was 
 erected 1>\ tin- Iiiiliil 
 Statis ,l;(>\i innRiit 
 iin IIk' s])(il w li f I c 
 Cirster made his last 
 stand In accKidanre 
 with his own wish 
 the VDiin;; hiio was 
 hnrifil with military 
 hotiorsat Wist I'oint, 
 uIkiv a Ilea >i t i fii 1 
 nionnnaiit marks his 
 rcstin.LT plaie, mar 
 those of Winlield 
 vSoott an<l other illns- 
 trious soldiers. The 
 st<)r.\- of his career has 
 heeti written hy I'led- 
 erick Whittaker, and 
 it also a ]i |)ear s in 
 Custer's xoliime enti- 
 tled M\ 1,1 fe on the 
 Plains, as well as in 
 three pleasant works 
 written In Mrs. Cns- 
 ter. To this hrief 
 tribute to a Liallant 
 comrade the writer 
 nmy add. as appliea- 
 hle to him, the jjoel's 
 lines • 
 
 • Swfit ill inaiiiifrs. fnii 
 ill liiMii , 
 Mild ill triiiiiti, fifiCL' ill 
 tiKlil. 
 Warriiir iioMit, i^fiitlci. 
 bravii. 
 .\t\( 1 -liiiH liiliold tlH' 
 lii;ht.-' 
 
 Amonj.j the last 
 letters received by 
 the author of tliis ar- 
 ticle from Achniral 
 David 1), I'orter was 
 one in which he said: 
 " I like to talk and 
 write al)ont the chiv- 
 alrous Cushinji'. He 
 was one of t h o s e 
 brave spirits devel- 
 oped by tlie Civil 
 
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 if till' i\ts till' saiiii. and liutli pnsst ssid 
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 r.itil^iic. Till lliini sidi' 1>> sidi and tin y 
 wmild lia\i- jiassfd Ini liinllurs. I'liliaps 
 naliin- fasliiuiis that kind i>( nun alikf 
 imnlall) ami jilix sii-allx . Cirtaiii it is 
 llial C'lisliiny- and CiisUrwiii' l\\i> nl 
 till' most fi'aiU'Ss sjiirils ulm made lluir 
 
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