. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . e, and for that reason, with others, he rarely tasted them. The next morning the Confederates entered Martinsburg. Here the generalwas welcomed with great enthusiasm, and a great crowd hastened to thehotel to greet him. At first he shut himself up in a room to write dispatches,but the demonstration became so persistent that he ordered the door to beopened. The crowd, chiefly ladies, rushed in and embarrassed the generalwith every possible outb
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . e, and for that reason, with others, he rarely tasted them. The next morning the Confederates entered Martinsburg. Here the generalwas welcomed with great enthusiasm, and a great crowd hastened to thehotel to greet him. At first he shut himself up in a room to write dispatches,but the demonstration became so persistent that he ordered the door to beopened. The crowd, chiefly ladies, rushed in and embarrassed the generalwith every possible outburst of affection, to which he could only reply, Thank you, youre very kind. He gave them his autograph in books andon scraps of paper, cut a button from his coat for a little girl, and thensubmitted patiently to an attack by the others, who soon stripped the coatof nearly all the remaining buttons. But when they looked beseechinglyat his hair, which was thin, he drew the line there, and managed to close theinterview. These blandishments did not delay his movements, however,for in the afternoon he was off again. 624 STONEWALL JACKSON IN A OF STON On the 13th he invested Bolivar Heights and Harpers Ferry. On this dayGeneral MeClellan came into possession, by carelessness or accident, ofGeneral Lees order of the 9th, and he was thus notified of the division of theConfederate army and the intention to capture Harpers Ferry. From thismoment General Lees army was in peril, imminent in proportion to thepromptness with which the Federal commander might use the knowledge hethus obtained. The plans of the latter were quickly and skillfully made. Hadthey been executed more rapidly, or had Jackson been slower and less sure, theresult must have been a disastrous one to us. But military critics disposedto censure General MeClellan for not being equal to his opportunities shouldcredit him with the embarrassment of his position. He had not been in com-mand of this army tw
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