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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
any straggling on the march to Gettysburg; and Lee could not have made his famous defensive campaign against Grant from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor with a straggling army. In singular corroboration of what I have been maintaining as the cause of the straggling in the Maryland campaign, and that it was exceptional, since writing this I have read in The Century for July (1886), in a paper entitled In the Wake of Battle. this account of the stragglers in Shepherdstown at this time (September 13th, 1862): They were stragglers at all events—professional, some of them, but some worn out by the incessant strain of that summer. When I say that they were hungry, I convey no impression of the gaunt starvation that looked from their cavernous eyes. All day they crowded to the doors of our houses with always the same drawling complaint: I've been a-marchina an' a-fightina for six weeks stiddy, and I ain't had n-a-rthina to eat 'cept green apples an' green caun, an' I wish you'd pleas