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ady to make an attack on the enemy's outposts if opportunity should offer. The supply trains were to follow along the main road. On the 9th General Jackson issued orders from Greenbrier river that the brigades of Rust and Fulkerson should draw four days rations of salt meat and hard bread; similar orders were issued by Loring. After the plan of campaign had been adopted and the date for its inception been fixed, General Lee from Headquarters of the Forces, Valley mountain, W. Va., September 9, 1861, issued the following stirring special order: The forward movement announced to the army of the Northwest in special orders, No. 28. from its headquarters, of this date, gives the general commanding the opportunity of exhorting the troops to keep steadily in view the great principles for which they contend, and to manifest to the world their determination to maintain them. The eyes of the country are upon you. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upo