
Horseman In The Sky
On a warm afternoon in the fall of 1861 Carter Druse is on picket duty on top of a cliff overlooking a valley where five regiments of the Union army are resting. The enemy is near, and the Union force means to surprise them in the night unless “accident or vigilance” forewarns them.
Druse had been sleeping but wakes to see a man on a horse surveying the activity in the valley below. He sights his r...
On a warm afternoon in the fall of 1861 Carter Druse is on picket duty on top of a cliff overlooking a valley where five regiments of the Union army are resting. The enemy is near, and the Union force means to surprise them in the night unless “accident or vigilance” forewarns them.
Druse had been sleeping but wakes to see a man on a horse surveying the activity in the valley below. He sights his r...