. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . HORSES THAT CARRIED THE ORDERS OF THE GEXERAL-IX-CHIEF Crack horses were a first requisite for Grants staff, escort, and couriers. This photograph shows severalat Bethseda Church, the little Virginia meeting-house where the staff had halted the day before Cold Har-bor. The staff consisted of fourteen officers only, and was not larger than that of some division com-manders. Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins was the chief. Grants instructions to his staff showed thevalue that he placed upon celerity and the overcoming of delays in co
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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . HORSES THAT CARRIED THE ORDERS OF THE GEXERAL-IX-CHIEF Crack horses were a first requisite for Grants staff, escort, and couriers. This photograph shows severalat Bethseda Church, the little Virginia meeting-house where the staff had halted the day before Cold Har-bor. The staff consisted of fourteen officers only, and was not larger than that of some division com-manders. Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins was the chief. Grants instructions to his staff showed thevalue that he placed upon celerity and the overcoming of delays in communicating orders. He urged his. WAITING ON GRANT AT BETHESDA CHURCH, JUNE, 1864 officers to discuss his orders with him freely whenever it was possible in the course of an engagement orbattle, to learn his views as fully as possible, and in great emergencies, where there was no time to com-municate with headquarters, to act on their own initiative along the lines laid down by him without hisspecific orders. The result was an eager, confident, hard-riding staff that stopped at no danger, whether tohorse or man. What was even more important, its members did not hesitate to assume responsibility.