. Four years in the Stonewall Brigade [electronic resource] . While I was at work a Georgian came to me 44 THE ST(L\E\VALL BRIGADE. and wanted the tools as soon as I was done withthem. He said he wanted to asked if I was burying my brother. No, I replied but dear as a brother. As you have no one to help you, he re-marked, and I have no one to help me, sup-pose we dig the grave large enough for both,and we can help one another to carry themhere. All right, I said, but I want to bury myfriend next to the tree for, perhaps, his fatherwill come after him. So. we buried them tha
. Four years in the Stonewall Brigade [electronic resource] . While I was at work a Georgian came to me 44 THE ST(L\E\VALL BRIGADE. and wanted the tools as soon as I was done withthem. He said he wanted to asked if I was burying my brother. No, I replied but dear as a brother. As you have no one to help you, he re-marked, and I have no one to help me, sup-pose we dig the grave large enough for both,and we can help one another to carry themhere. All right, I said, but I want to bury myfriend next to the tree for, perhaps, his fatherwill come after him. So. we buried them that way and gathered upsome old shingles to put over the bodies andapiece of plank between them. Then I rudelycarved his name on the tree. That evening there was a detail made fromeach company to bury all the dead, and we bur-ied all alike, friend and foe. We also lostthe major of my regiment, Major Lee, and ourdrill master, a Cadet from the Virginia MilitaryInstitute; and thus ended the first battle ofBull Run, and the first big battle of the war. X o y. X. III. l. jacquelix smith, adjutaxt—Mike Buys Chickens—A Convenient Guardhouse—The Henry House—French Furlough—Gets in the Guardhouse—Jack-son Promoted to Major General—His Address to theBrigade—General Garnett takes Command—DestroysDam No. 5—Close of 1801. The Adjutant of our regiment was L. Jacque-lin Smith, and the regiment took a dislike tohim from the first, for he was a fop in kidgloves, and wanted to be very strict, especiallyon dress parade. In reading orders he alwayspronounced his name as above, and put onmore airs than a brigadier general. Some ofthe boys prophesied that he was a enough when the battle commenced, heshowed the white feather, and disappeared. Ina few days he returned to camp. When Col. Cummins saw him he called out,Hello, Smith, how did the battle go aboutWinchester? and then told him that he had nofurther use for him. Winchester was abouteighty miles to the rear. That w
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