Life and campaigns of JJackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . for his army couldnot expose itself by marching past such a leader as Jackson,who sat, with eighteen thousand men, ready to pounce upon itsexposed flanks. If the reader will recall the description of the battle-field ofthe first Manassas he will have before him the position assumedby Jackson. The Warrenton tmmpike, running due east towardAlexandria, is. crossed at right angles, a mile and half before itpasses the Bull Run at the stone bridge, by the country roadwhich proceeds northward from the Junction to Sudley ford, atwh
Life and campaigns of JJackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . for his army couldnot expose itself by marching past such a leader as Jackson,who sat, with eighteen thousand men, ready to pounce upon itsexposed flanks. If the reader will recall the description of the battle-field ofthe first Manassas he will have before him the position assumedby Jackson. The Warrenton tmmpike, running due east towardAlexandria, is. crossed at right angles, a mile and half before itpasses the Bull Run at the stone bridge, by the country roadwhich proceeds northward from the Junction to Sudley ford, atwhich the Federal right first crossed the stream on the morningof July 21st, 1861. At this ford, Jackson now rested his leftwing, protected by the cavaliy brigade of Robertson, while hisright stretcRed eastward across the hills, in a line oblique to thecourse of Bull Run, toward the road by which Longstreet wasexpected from Thoroughfare Gap. His front was nearly par-allel to the Warrenton turnpike, and distant from it, between one )1\: LIFE OP 2nd MANASSAS. FIRST days battle. 525 and two miles. The division of A. P. Hill formed his left, thatof Ewell his centre, and that of Taliaferro, strengthened bj theremainder of the cavalry and the horse-artillery of Pelham, hisright. Scarcely had these dispositions been completed, when the ene-my was found to be advancing along the Warrenton turnpike inheavy masses, as though to force his way back to had now arrived. The second brigade of Taliaferrosdivision, under the temporary command of Colonel Bradley , which had been detached to watch the turnpike, wasdirected-to skirmish with the front of the Federal column, andobstruct their advance. The remainder of the division of Talia-ferro, supported by that of Ewell, was marched by its right flankand toward the turnpike, to attack the enemy in flank. He, per-ceiving this movement, and the obstruction in his front, at firstattempted to file h
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