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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate States army. (search)
fore returning to my post, I rode forward with him to see the old Stonewall Division. They had been reduced to a very small body of men and were commanded by Colonel Grigsby. In some places lieutenants commanded brigades; sergeants, regiments. Nearly all of his Generals had fallen, but he had two left who were hosts in themselves, the unconquerable D. H. Hill, and that grand old soldier, Jubal Early. While talking to Grigsby I saw off at a distance in a field, men lying down, and supposed it was a line of battle. I asked Colonel Grigsby why he did not move that line of battle to make it conform to his own, when he said: Those men you see lying over thColonel Grigsby why he did not move that line of battle to make it conform to his own, when he said: Those men you see lying over there, which you suppose to be a line of battle, are all dead men. They are Georgia soldiers. It was a stern struggle, but Jackson always expected to hold his lines. I heard him once say: We sometimes fail to drive the enemy from his position. He always fails to drive us. But he was never content with the defensive, however succe