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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle at McDowell. (search)
e fiercest and bloodiest it that has occurred during the present war. Generals Jackson and Johnson having driven the enemy from Shenandoah mountain in great prec mountains. through which the turnpike runs before entering the village. Generals Jackson and Johnson having since a fried there position, and that is was impossibleorge Smith; the 31st regiment, by Col. Johnson Hoffidan, Lieut. Colonel A. H, Jackson, and Maj. Jas. Ontueworth, and the Ese battery, commanded by Capt Raine, were guns, but after reaching the summit of the mountain they were ordered back — Gens Jackson and Johnson deciding that no position could be obtained. Johnson's armyhe field. During the engagement Gen. Johnson came near being captured. Gen. Jackson, not knowing his position gave orders for the 44th Va regiment to fall back, now nearly free of the scoundrels. I do not knew our destination, as General Jackson never tells any one his plans, not even his Brigadiers and Aids. The Y
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Pryor's Brigade. (search)
amusingly refers to Gen. Scott, then on a visit to Paris, to improve, if that were possible, his military knowledge and receive the congratulations of the world: "Of all the commanders then assembled in Paris, the most dissatisfied was the America. General Scott, since noted for his campaign in Mexico, who had been opposed to the English on the Canada frontier, had taken a fort or two, and was looked upon by his countrymen as a military star of the very first magnitude--second only to Jackson, and equal to any other warrior then exact. He had been sent to Europe to increase his military knowledge and study the art of war, and reached Paris fully convinced that all the great chiefs of the continental armies would hasten to greet and compliment him. To his visible vexation he found himself completely mistaken. In the great military meetings in the French capital, where Wellington, Bincher, Schwarzenburg, Hatusoff, Wosonsuff, and a best of other celebrities, laden with stars and