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War Experiences of Samuel Wheeler, Private in the First West Virginia Cavalry

War Experiences of Samuel Wheeler, Private in the First West Virginia Cavalry Lynda Rees Heaton t the Grand Review of the Armies on May 23, 1865, General George A. Custer's Third Division cavalry troops, including the First West Virginia, led the parade, followed by the rest of the Army of the Potomac, through the crowded streets of Washington. At one point, as they neared the reviewing stand, Custer, flamboyant as usual, lost control of his horse, causing his hat to blow off; after galloping off to retrieve it, he blithely resumed his place at the head of the column.1 Samuel Wheeler,2 a private in the West Virginia cavalry regiment, witnessed the incident and wrote about it forty-six years later in his memoir, War Experiences of Samuel Wheeler. He also recorded about that day: "Captain Wheeler3 had a wreath of flowers thrown over his horse's head and it just fitted his horse's neck like a collar. Well, we privates had flowers, too. We were marching with our sabers drawn and at a `Carry Arms,' and in coming in front of the President's stand we presented saber and then back to a carry saber, and when the flowers began to fall we began to catch them on our saber points, and before http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies West Virginia University Press

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Lynda Rees Heaton t the Grand Review of the Armies on May 23, 1865, General George A. Custer's Third Division cavalry troops, including the First West Virginia, led the parade, followed by the rest of the Army of the Potomac, through the crowded streets of Washington. At one point, as they neared the reviewing stand, Custer, flamboyant as usual, lost control of his horse, causing his hat to blow off; after galloping off to retrieve it, he blithely resumed his place at the head of the column.1 Samuel Wheeler,2 a private in the West Virginia cavalry regiment, witnessed the incident and wrote about it forty-six years later in his memoir, War Experiences of Samuel Wheeler. He also recorded about that day: "Captain Wheeler3 had a wreath of flowers thrown over his horse's head and it just fitted his horse's neck like a collar. Well, we privates had flowers, too. We were marching with our sabers drawn and at a `Carry Arms,' and in coming in front of the President's stand we presented saber and then back to a carry saber, and when the flowers began to fall we began to catch them on our saber points, and before

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West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies – West Virginia University Press

Published: Nov 7, 2012

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