About Tiger John

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He had many similarities in common with "Stonewall" Jackson: orphaned while young, he grew to manhood among the proud mountain people of western Virginia, had a military education at the Virginia Military Institute, and young McCausland was a teaching assistant at VMI in both mathematics and artillery tactics under Jackson's supervision. Both were with the Cadet contingent serving as guards at John Brown's execution.

The Washington Post  reports some history about John McCausland that is ignored:

It may be that here, on July 11, 1864, almost forgotten to history, an enemy of the United States looked down on the capital city, astride the barrel of a long gun. A chain of evidence, scraps of paper, and human memory, have brought me to this place.

But that fragile chain would shatter if it turned out that it was impossible to stand here and look down on the lights of Washington.

"I don't think many people, North or South, realize how close Washington came to falling into Rebel hands that summer of 1864," Confederate Brig. Gen. "Tiger" John McCausland declared in 1925. "Years afterwards, I told General Grant, when he was campaigning for president, that the last time I was in Washington was '64. He asked me if I was in disguise. 'Oh no,' I told him, 'I rode with my staff into the defenses of Georgetown. Your entire defending garrison had deserted! Your capital was practically undefended! I sat there on a big gun and looked at the lights and wished I had men enough to go ahead and capture the place and end the damned war!”

No history book confirms that boast. Yet it may be true.  ( Johnston, James H. “The Man Who (Almost) Conquered Washington.” The Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2001)

He is remembered for the Rebel raid into Pennsylvania in which the town of Chambersburg was burned in retribution for Federal atrocities in the Shenandoah Valley. After this raid, a reward was placed on his head and he had to leave the country at the end of the war until a full pardon was granted. Bitter to the last of his days, he was described as "The Last Confederate Stronghold" until his death in 1927, the next to last surviving Confederate general officer.