Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — A Bold Cavalry Leader. [ARTICLE]

A Bold Cavalry Leader.

A prominent Confederate once told the writer that when Sherman’s army assumed the offensive there were three or four regiments of cavalry which would wheel on the Confederate flank like chain lightning and strike like a whole division. It was Gen. J. T. Wilder’s brigade of mounted infantry, armed with Spencer repeating rifles. They had come down from Rosecrans’ army and went back with Thomas, and those repeating rifles made music. Gen. Wilder was a New-Yorker by birth, learned the iron business in Ohio, and after the war, in 1867, built two blast furnaces at Rockwood, near Chattanooga, the first furnaces ever erected in that country which used mineral fuel, and they are still running. Gen. Wilder is at the Ebbitt, a tall, vigorous man, with short, white whiskers and a bluff, hearty manner. He has disposed of his interests in Chattanooga, and is now building the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. He has done many things in his eventful life.— Washington Post. “Thebe is a tide in the affairs of men which, if taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” If your affairs are at a low ebb now, don’t fail to write to B. F. Johnson & Co.. 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va., who have plans that will enable you to make money rapidly.