. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ert Patterson was thereal reason for Jacksons favor. Ashln had rigged himself in a farmers suitof homespun that he had borrowed, and, hiring a plow-horse, had personateda rustic horse-doctor. With his saddle-liags full of some remedy for spa%iiior ringbone, he had gone to Chambersburg, and had retiumed in the nightwith an immense amoiint of information. The career of Ashby was a romancefrom that time on tUl he fell, shot through the heart, two days before thebattle of Cross Keys.
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ert Patterson was thereal reason for Jacksons favor. Ashln had rigged himself in a farmers suitof homespun that he had borrowed, and, hiring a plow-horse, had personateda rustic horse-doctor. With his saddle-liags full of some remedy for spa%iiior ringbone, he had gone to Chambersburg, and had retiumed in the nightwith an immense amoiint of information. The career of Ashby was a romancefrom that time on tUl he fell, shot through the heart, two days before thebattle of Cross Keys. May 2od, 1861, Colonel Jackson was siiperseded in command at HarpersFerry by Brigadier-Geneial Joseph E. Johnston. ^Mieu General Johnstonarrived several thousand m(>n had been assembled there, representing nearly allthe seceded States east of the Mississippi River. Johnston at once began thework of organization on a larger scale than Jackson had attempted. Hebrigaded the troops, and assigned Colonel Jackson to the command of the ex-chisively Virginian Inigade. The latter was almost immediately commissioned. ^^- COLONEL ROGER JONEP. FROM A rllOTOGKAPH. JACKSON AT HARPERS FERRY IN 1861. I2t brigadier-general, and when on the 15th of June Johnston withcUew from Har-pers Ferry to Winchester, he kept Jackson at the front along the Baltimoreand Ohio road to observe General Pattersons preparations. Nothing of muchimportance occurred for several weeks, beyond a little affair near Martinsburgin which Jackson captured about forty men of a reconnoitering party sent outby Patterson. His vigilance was ceaseless, and General Johnston felt sure, atWinchester, of ample warning of any aggressive movement of the enemy. On the 2d of January, 1861, Alfred M. Barbour(mentioned in the foregoing paper), Superinten-dent of. the United States Armory at HarpersFerry, wrote to Captain William Maynadier of theOrdnance Bureau, Washington, iu part as follows: I have reason to apprehend tliat eome assault
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