Third Division Cavalry Chronicle

The Third Division Cavalry Chronicle was a local journal that was briefly published in Charlottesville by elements of the Union army as they occupied the city towards the end of the Civil War.

These soldiers seized the old Jeffersonian office to secure the necessary supplies in order to produce the paper, with the only copy issued dated March 6, 1865. The contents of this issue were very slim, as the soldiers received new marching orders before they were able to compose a full sheet.

The paper detailed the battlefield successes reported by General George Armstrong Custer and offered a reward of two dollars in Confederate currency for the whereabouts of General Jubal Early as well as a reward of one cent for those of General Thomas L. Rosser. The paper also called for local civilians to furnish Custer's men with provisions and contained a poet's corner, the contents of which were cut off unexpectedly as Custer's men had to leave before finishing it:

A kind friend has favored us with the following song, as sung by the Charlottesville Glee Club:

How do you like it as far as you've got? Jefferson D, Jefferson D, Are you glad you began it, or do you wish you had not? Jefferson, Jefferson D. People say, though of course I don't know that it's so, That your spirits are getting decidedly low, That you're sick and discouraged and don't know what, But say though — do you like it as far as you've got. Ho! Ho! Jefferson D, Things look rather shaky now 'Twixt you and me. You can't think how sorry I was when I heard, Jefferson D, Jefferson D, That your visit to Washington had been deferred, Jefferson, Jefferson D, But I hope you will find it convenient to come When Abe and the rest of the boys are at home And I trust you won't mind it, they're such a lot, If they ask you how you like it as far as you've got.

Ho! Ho! Jefferson D.