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they came up on the 11th they gave us, as we have shown (King's division only), a force no larger than Jackson's. Yet this made him retreat. Of the fight at Cedar Mountain, Dabney says: Jackson meant to have fought at Culpeper Court House on the 8th. Had he done so, his victory would have been so much more complete as to silence every charge of fruitlessness; for we have seen that the supports which saved Pope from destruction only arrived at nightfall on the 9th. To silence such criticism, to show what would have happened had something not interposed of which we are not informed, it is sufficient to refer to what we have said of Pope's dispositions on the 8th. Had Jackson marched to Culpeper Court House on that day, he would not only have saved Pope much time in concentration, but he would have met, in addition to Banks's corps, the whole of Ricketts' division; and we may believe Siegel would have found a road upon which he could have arrived in time. Jackson's battle of C
August 14th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 12
saving his baggage; calling for reinforcements, and thanking the Lord for the victory in the same breath,--we are at a loss to imagine the grounds for his pious gratitude. Strother's Recollections of a Virginia Campaign. On the morning of that day Pope sent, by flag of truce, for permission to recover the wounded and bury the dead. This was granted; and thus we were permitted, by those over whom, according to Halleck's despatch to Pope, Halleck's order to Pope, War Department, August 14, 1862. we had won a hard-earned and brilliant success, to succor our wounded, to recover our dead. All day of the 11th the rank and file of the two armies met and talked, between hostile lines, without passion or resentment. On our left the cornfield was only sprinkled with dead, but on the wheat-field and in the woods into which our regiments charged, and by the fence where my brigade fought in line of battle, there were ghastly piles of dead, with here and there a living sufferer, who had
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