The story of a connoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the Army of northern Virginia . s surrendered was11,500, with seventy-three pieces of artillery,sufficient to supply our batteries for some was comparatively a bloodless victory,though the commanding officer, Colonel Miles,was killed at the last moment, and the terms ofsurrender arranged by General White, who hadfallen back to this place from Martinsburg. Isaw their artillery as it was driven out andturned over to us, supplied with most excellentequipments, and horses sleek
The story of a connoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the Army of northern Virginia . s surrendered was11,500, with seventy-three pieces of artillery,sufficient to supply our batteries for some was comparatively a bloodless victory,though the commanding officer, Colonel Miles,was killed at the last moment, and the terms ofsurrender arranged by General White, who hadfallen back to this place from Martinsburg. Isaw their artillery as it was driven out andturned over to us, supplied with most excellentequipments, and horses sleek and fat. As some time would be consumed in handlingthe prisoners and the transfer of arms andstores, I set out in the afternoon for Charles-town, and, as usual, went to my friends—theEansons. After a refreshing bath I donned aclean white shirt and a pair of light-checkedtrousers, and was ready to discuss the events ofthe campaign with General Lindsay Walker,who was also a guest of the house. About nineoclock at night I was joined by Dandridge, whohad been met in the town by his mother and sis-ters from The Bower,? and, with light hearts. D. Gardixer Tyeer FACING 140 UNDER STONEWALL JACKSON 141 and full haversacks, we set out for camp sevenmiles distant. The Eanson family has several times beenmentioned in these pages, as their home was aplace where, when hungry, I was fed and, whennaked, clothed. The oldest son, Tom, now a law-yer in Staunton, Virginia, was my schoolfellowand classmate at college when a boy in Lexing-ton. After receiving a wound at Cross Keys inJune, 1862, when a lieutenant in the Fifty-sec-ond Virginia Eegiment, which incapacitatedhim for further service in the infantry, he en-listed in the cavalry. By reason of his famil-iarity with the topography of the country aboutHarpers Ferry and the lower portion of theValley, together with his indomitable pluck andsteady nerve, he was often employed as a scout,and in this capacity frequently visited his homenear Char
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