Life and campaigns of JJackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . Chancellorsville. ENEMY CEOSS THE EIVER. G61 that if it were as lie supposed, and the hostilities were about tobe resumed on a great scalC; Mr. Yerbys would be no place fora lady and infant; and she would be compelled to retire toRichmond. He therefore, requested Mrs. Jackson to makeimmediate preparations for her journey, so that, if his surmisesproved true, she might leave at a moments warning, in the fore-noon. He promised, if it were practicable, to return in personand assist her departure, but added that, as his duties
Life and campaigns of JJackson, (Stonewall Jackson) . Chancellorsville. ENEMY CEOSS THE EIVER. G61 that if it were as lie supposed, and the hostilities were about tobe resumed on a great scalC; Mr. Yerbys would be no place fora lady and infant; and she would be compelled to retire toRichmond. He therefore, requested Mrs. Jackson to makeimmediate preparations for her journey, so that, if his surmisesproved true, she might leave at a moments warning, in the fore-noon. He promised, if it were practicable, to return in personand assist her departure, but added that, as his duties mightdeprive him of the power to do so, he would say good-by , after an affectionate leave-taking, he hurried away, withoutbreakfast, and she saw him no more until she returned to theside of his dying bed. Her heart was oppressed with gloomyforebodings for his safety, arising from her anticipation of thedesperate struggle into which she well knew, it was his purposeto plunge, rather than yield ground to his gigantic adversary;his animated eagerness seemed to
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