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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
T. J. Jackson. I had not very far to go, as Jackson always kept well up to the front. I found thl. I rode up, saluted, and asked is this General Jackson. On receiving an affirmative reply, I tomoved his position. Another interview with Jackson. I hurried to General Jackson to report, fGeneral Jackson to report, finding him at the same place. The infantry troops were called to attention, and forming in columnmething very important. I hastened on to General Jackson, and made my report of the situation, as ow far he could use me in the future, for General Jackson knew all that country thoroughly. After d to consider what next. I had done what General Jackson ordered, driven the picket in on the resee, here came a courier to Colonel Baylor from Jackson to halt. There we stood possibly fifteen or wenty minutes, when another courier came from Jackson ordering the line of battle to fall back to tack to my regiment until I got to Strasburg. Jackson slipped by Fremont a few days later, fought t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
against him, and in detaching him from this army my object has been to prevent an active and powerful column from being paralyzed by his presence. In a report written by General Averell, whilst stung by the order recalling him, he explained his delay at Rapidan Station on the ground that, All the intelligence we had been able to gather from a captured mail and from various other sources, went to show that the enemy believed the Army of the Potomac, was advancing over that line, and that Jackson was at Gordonsville with 25,000 men, to resist its approach. When he penned that sentence, he must have had well in mind among the intelligence which he had been able to gather, what young Wright had told him. The two Wrights, named in this communication, are still living (at Oldham's, Westmoreland county, Va.,) and retain vivid recollections of the incidents here recorded in their lives as soldiers. It is a pleasure to testify to their singular gallantry as soldiers and their substan