{"id":107468,"date":"2021-05-27T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107468"},"modified":"2021-05-27T19:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:38:40","slug":"i-have-not-a-single-horseman-and-cannot-get-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/i-have-not-a-single-horseman-and-cannot-get-one\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have not a single horseman, and cannot get one.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Headquarters,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Yorktown, Va ., May 27, 1861.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Colonel <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Garnett<\/span>, <em>Adjutant-General:<\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-size: large;\">Sir<\/span>: I have just received, by a special messenger from Major Cary the following dispatch: \u201cThe enemy are landing at Newport News. Five steamers are up James River. Destination unknown. Please send down cavalry immediately .&#8221; I have not a single horseman, and cannot get one. A large force of cavalry, as I have stated before, seems to me to be absolutely necessary, to learn of the movements of the enemy. Major Cary is falling back with only thirty-five men, the rest of the roops being engaged in removing their families. The five steamers are reported by the express as being filled with troops. I am of the impression that this is intended to be an attack on our flanks.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\">J. BANKHEAD MAGRUDER,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Colonel, Commanding<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters, Yorktown, Va ., May 27, 1861. Colonel Garnett, Adjutant-General: Sir: I have just received, by a special messenger from Major Cary the following dispatch: \u201cThe enemy are landing at Newport News. Five steamers are up James River. Destination unknown. Please send down cavalry immediately .&#8221; I have not a single horseman, and cannot get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-B.-Magruder.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}