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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Jackson at Harper's Ferry in 1861. (search)
uch officers were in town, but I found Captains Turner Ashby and Richard Ashby of Fauquier county, y was. This order was very offensive to Captain Turner Ashby, at that time the idol of all the troopr rode at the head of well-mounted troopers. Ashby was older than Stuart, and he thought and we ato first promotion. When not absent scouting, Ashby spent his nights with me at the bridge. He toaling in the strongest terms for the saving of Ashby to the service. The result of his night ride anded at first by Colonel Angus McDonald, with Ashby as lieutenant-colonel, and in a few months AshAshby was promoted to its full command. Ashby got back to Point of Rocks about 2 in the morning, as hAshby got back to Point of Rocks about 2 in the morning, as happy a man as I ever saw, and completely Colonel Roger Jones. From a photograph. enraptured withidence of the two men were remarkable. A trip Ashby had made a few days before to Chambersburg andrson was the real reason for Jackson's favor. Ashby had rigged himself in a farmer's suit of homes[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Incidents of the first Bull Run. (search)
Court House, either by railroad or by Warrenton. In all the arrangements exercise your discretion. On the next day, the 18th of July, we left Winchester for Manassas. It was late in the afternoon before my battery took up the line of march — as I now recollect, with the rear-guard, as had been the case when we left Harper's Ferry a month before. It was thought probable that Patterson, who was south of the Potomac, and only a few miles distant, would follow us. But J. E. B. Stuart and Ashby with the cavalry so completely masked our movement that it was not suspected by Patterson until July 20th, the day before the Bull Run fight, and then it was too late for him to interfere. On the second day of the march an order reached me at Rectortown, Virginia, through Brigadier-General Barnard E. Bee, to collect the four field-batteries of Johnston's army into one column, and, as senior artillery captain, to march them by country roads that were unobstructed by infantry or trains as