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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., On the road to Petersburg: notes of an officer of the C. S. A. (search)
is dead at the Yellow Tavern yonder, and sleeps at Hollywood; but as the dying Adams said of Jefferson, he still lives --lives in every heart, the greatest of the Southern cavaliers! His plume still floats before the eyes of the gray horsemen, and history shall never forget him! There was Gordon, too-alive but the other day, now dead and gone whither so many comrades have preceded him. He fell in that same fierce onslaught on the enemy's cavalry, when they tried to enter Richmond by the Brook road, in that sudden attack which saved the capital. I blamed Stuart once for his reckless attack with so small a force as he then had on so large a one as the enemy's, said a most intelligent gentleman of the neighbourhood to me not long since; but now I know that he proved himself here, as everywhere, the great soldier, and that he thereby saved Richmond. And the gallant Gordon! how well I knew him, and how we all loved him! Tall, elegant in person, distinguished in address, with a cha