. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . ogue. My temper, naturallyirascible, was ill-suited to a pursuit and profession requiringa large modicum of patience and good nature; and the fewmonths spent in this service was sufficient to implant m mea deep sympathy and commiseration for the toilers m theschools. The time spent in this community was a periodfull of import. The country was verging on a gr
. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . ogue. My temper, naturallyirascible, was ill-suited to a pursuit and profession requiringa large modicum of patience and good nature; and the fewmonths spent in this service was sufficient to implant m mea deep sympathy and commiseration for the toilers m theschools. The time spent in this community was a periodfull of import. The country was verging on a great civil North and South were fast becoming estranged anddesigning politicians on either side fanned the flame of dis-cord The Cotton States had seceded from the Union andformed a Confederacy, with its capital at Montgomery. TheStar of the West had attempted to provision Fort Sumter,had been refused permission, and a collision had occurredbetween the forces of the United States and of the State ofSouth Carolina. Virginia, reluctant to leave the Union, wasby the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for 75,000troops, forced to take sides, and natural affinity, education,and similarity of interests determined her Edw. M. Aisquith. 75* Bull Run to Bull Run. Soldiering in time of peace, liad found little favor withme, and I had refrained from joining- any military organiza-tion, thongh many, the outgrowth of the John Brown raid,were in existence in the vicinity of my home and presentahode. Bnt now that A-irginia had taken her stand with herSouthern sisters, and the two sections were in hostile array,I felt it my duty to lay down the plow and the pruning-hookand take up the s\\ord and the hattle-axe. Turner Ashl)}-, who lived near Markham, was then captainof a volunteer company of cavalry, composed of men of thatvicinity, and had received orders to report -with his companyat Harpers Ferry. The inclination to go could not beresisted, and, seeking my principal, I
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