. 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 . myself on the Virginia side of the Potomac,at the Point of Rocks, where I could rendezvous, and organize such recruitsas I could draw to my command. Colonel Jackson promptly issued the orderthat I should be rationed, and the next day I occupied the position on theright bank of the Potomac. There I found Captain Turner Ashby and w^eremained together for a month, full of enterprises, and the vain imaginingsof young soldiers. The Governor an
. 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 . myself on the Virginia side of the Potomac,at the Point of Rocks, where I could rendezvous, and organize such recruitsas I could draw to my command. Colonel Jackson promptly issued the orderthat I should be rationed, and the next day I occupied the position on theright bank of the Potomac. There I found Captain Turner Ashby and w^eremained together for a month, full of enterprises, and the vain imaginingsof young soldiers. The Governor and Legislature of Maryland, were then in session at Freder-ick, and Ashby and I arranged an enterprise for his troopers to mountmy men behind them and make a dash into Frederick at night, capturethe Governor and break up the State government and get back to Virginiaby daylight. It was only a twenty miles ride there and back, and wecould have done it easily. But my friends in the legislature to whomthe scheme had been imparted, l)egged us to desist, l)ecause they said itwould do no good, and would certainly result in placing the State undermartial Ul z > cc< z o< UJ II- AMERICAN HEROISM. 495 We agreed to give our raid up, but we warned them they would get mar-tial law anyhow. Before Christmas the legislature had l)een dispersed bythe Ihiion troops, and its leading members withdrawn from further plots orproceedings by being incarcerated in Fort Warren. When Johnston aljan-doned the line of the Potomac and joined Beauregard at Manassas, Ashbywas left to guard the valley with his cavalry, and it was not until May. 1862,our line of life joined again. During the winter and spring Ashby had been dazzling the Confederateswith such dashing, brilliant, gallant exploits as thrilled the hearts of theVirginians and fired the ranks of the army with a divine enthusiasm. The day after Ewells division from east of the Blue Ridge had joinedJackson in the valley, I rode ten miles to
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