As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Colonel John Mosby of the Confederate Cavalry often enough had deserters from the Union joining him and in one of them was a Cavalryman named Ames who had joined his ranks. This Ames was a very brave Trooper and did all he was called on in staying with Mosby's Rangers.
Mosby though tells of a hard engagment with Ames old troop which he never did learn of why the Union man had deserted or why he chose to make war on his old comrades, but when he did, he was a fiend about it.
"The regiment we had fought happened to be the very one to which Ames had belonged, and from which he had deserted a few weeks before to join me. He had gone through their ranks like an avenging angel, shooting right and left. He took a malicious pleasure in introducing some of his old comrades to me. I could not help feeling a pang of regret that such courage as his should be stained with dishonor."
Ames would die beside Mosby in battle, and the story of what created this Confederate was never known.
It is obvious from the fury this Ames had in it being personal in shooting every wounded man he came across to introducing his old command to the infamous John Mosby, whom he now served, that it was this entire command which had austracized him and abused him that he had gone to war against America for it, and personally against this group.
Sgt. Ames of the New York Cavalry in his route to avenging Angel.
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