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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
l Pickett talking to a strange officer, to whom he introduced me saying: This is Colonel Gordon, once opposed to me in the San Juan affair, but now on our side. In explanation of this I will state here that the San Juan affair occurred on the Pacific coast when General Pickett was captain in the United States army, and when he held the island against three English ships of war and 1,000 English regulars, he having one company of United States infantry and part of another company. General Winfield Scott was sent out by this government to settle the trouble. After the introduction, Colonel Gordon, who was an Englishman, continued speaking to General Pickett, and said: Pickett, my men are not going up to-day. The General said— But, Gordon, they must go up; you must make them go up. Colonel Gordon answered: You know, Pickett, I will go as far with you as any other man, if only for old acquaintance sake, but my men have until lately been down at the seashore, only unde