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However, General Kilpatrick and most of his men escaped into a swamp with their arms, reorganized and returned, catching Hampton's men in turn, scattered and drove them away, recovering most of his camp and artillery; but Hampton got off with Kilpatrick's private horses and a couple hundred prisoners, of which he boasted much in passing through Fayetteville.
You know what to do, Tommy, old man." "I know, Bud," said Tommy, his eyes shining. For never before had Bud Lee called him that "old man." Long ago the gag had been removed from Hampton's mouth. Long ago, consequently, Hampton had said his say, had made his promises. When he got out of this glory to be! wouldn't he square the deal, though! Did Lee know what kidnapping was?
Waving his hand in token of farewell, Jackson galloped from the field. Keyes. Sherman. Schenck. Porter. Burnside. Franklin. Wilcox. Howard. Jackson. Bee. Bartow. Kirby Smith. Bonham. Cocke. Early. 7th Louisiana Regiment. 8th Louisiana Regiment. Hampton's Legion. Cavalry.
Stuart's three brigades, after the affair at Boteler's Ford, picketed the line of the Potomac from the North Mountain to the Shenandoah, a distance of forty miles: Hampton's brigade at Hedgesville, Fitzhugh Lee's at Shepherdstown, Munford's at Charlestown, and headquarters near Leetown.
General Prevost's own reports and letters showed that he had collected in the Montreal district and available for defense at least fifteen thousand rank and file, including the militia which had been mustered to repel Hampton's advance.
He went steadily aft to mount the poop-deck, while being near the galley I strolled towards it to have a few words with the man of suet, and as he welcomed me with a simple placid smile, I felt that Bob Hampton's estimate of his character was pretty correct, and that it would be bad policy to trust much to him in a time of peril. "Well," I said, "been to the captain?"
Stuart's force at this date was a little more than eight thousand men, organized in two divisions, commanded by Generals Wade Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee. Hampton's division was composed of three brigades, commanded by Generals Cordon, Young, and Rosser; Fitzhugh Lee's division comprised three brigades also, Generals W. H. F. Lee, Lomax, and Wickham commanding them.
Was I an officer of real cavalry making a real march; or a fanciful being, one of a long column of phantoms? I seem dimly to remember a pretty face, whose owner smiled on me and a faint memory remains of a supper which she gave me. If I am not mistaken I was left alone in the town of Salem hostile faces were around me and I was falling asleep when Hampton's cavalry came up.
Jessie shook out her muslin ruffles, reefed a fold of net higher across her neck, and pinned it in place with a jeweled pin, while Hampton's and Billy's and Cliff's expressions and poses of countenance and bodies suddenly fell into lines of decorum. "Great Smokes!
Then we hauled in slowly, till after a little management we had the bight so exactly adjusted that Bob Hampton's feet rested upon it while we held the rope tight. "Hah!" he whispered, with his face close to the cabin-window, "that rests my flippers. Mind, I'm going to ease off a bit now, but if you two slacken down I shall go, and there won't be time to say good-bye."
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