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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
of the historians of the times as follows: Our gallant army, under General Beauregard, has been attacked by the enemy in overwhelming numbers; the commanding-general hopes that his troops will step out like men and make a forced march to save our country. This was certainly the substance of it, and we responded with a cheer and with quickening footsteps. We forded the Shenandoah that night at Berry's Ferry, and reached the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountain at a small place called Paris, about 2 or 3 o'clock next morning. Here the company rested till sun-rise, then marched a few miles down the eastern slope of the mountain to a good, old-fashioned country place occupied by a maiden lady. She, and her neighbors who lived further from the road than she did, and who had come over to cheer, or to see, the soldiers as they passed, prepared abundant supplies of food. It was of a sort known as chicken-fixings at first, but as the day wore on and the soldiers, not of our battery