. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . he had been with Jackson about WinchesterandRomney. I had become colonel; he was just aboutto be promoted brigadier. We discussed the comingcamjjaign. He told me that he had been under firefor sixty consecutive days. That he had been ^frequently without regular meals for days to- :--gether. But he found no inconveniencefrom it. ■ I eat a few apples, drink some -c:-- ,-spring water, and draw up my swordbelt ^^^a hole or two tighter, and Im
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . he had been with Jackson about WinchesterandRomney. I had become colonel; he was just aboutto be promoted brigadier. We discussed the comingcamjjaign. He told me that he had been under firefor sixty consecutive days. That he had been ^frequently without regular meals for days to- :--gether. But he found no inconveniencefrom it. ■ I eat a few apples, drink some -c:-- ,-spring water, and draw up my swordbelt ^^^a hole or two tighter, and Im all right. Itsjust as good as eating. Jackson, guided ^by Ashby. as is well known, swept down thevalley and drove Banks across the Potomac andscared Washington into fits. Finding that Shields was approaching fromthe east in his rear and Fremont from the west,he whirled about, and in that magnificent campaign of thirteen days fromMay 24 to June 9, defeated three separate armies, took four thousand prisoners,and over one thousand wagons and four horse and mule teams, and thenleaped on McClellans right and rear at Cold Harbor, two hundred miles V General Tirner Asiibv. 40f) THE STOKV OF During that famous retreat we were always Jacksons rear guard. Icommanding tlie infantry and Ashby, the cavalry. On the afternoon ofJune (5. Fremont pushed his advance — a New Jersey cavalry regiment underColonel Sir Percy Windom. and a crack battalion of Pennsylvania Bucktails,Colonel Kane commanding — ahead of his column until he got in contactwith the rear guard. One incautious charge by the Iuion cavalry disposedof Sir Percy and he was soon riding to the rear nu)unted behind a Virginiatrooper. This only stimulated Ashby, and Ewell gave him a brigade of infantryto try and capture Fremonts advance of the Bucktails. In moving to the rear to make the attack, the 5Sth Virginia and the 1stMaryland got to moving in parallel columns fifty yards apart, as theyentered the woods when the Buc
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