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This detachment seems to have been made with the view of inducing Banks to believe, should information filter through Ashby's pickets, that the whole Confederate force was advancing direct on Strasburg. Cf The Valley Campaign pages 92 and 93. The troops were now organised in two divisions: Third Brigade, Colonel Taliaferro: 10th Virginia, 23rd Virginia, 37th Virginia.
Banks was at last in motion was marching, nineteen thousand strong, up the Valley had seized New Market, and, most astounding and terrific of all to the village boys, had captured a whole company of Ashby's! "General Jackson?" General Jackson had burned the railway station at Mt. Jackson and fallen back was believed to be somewhere about Harrisonburg. "Any other news?" "Yes, sir!
Their commander, as quick of eye as either Harry or Sherburne, unlimbered and swept back the western men who were seeking to turn their flank. Then Sherburne, with a charge of his cavalry, sent them back further. But at the call of Ashby's trumpet they turned quickly and galloped after Jackson's army, the main part of which had now passed the bridge.
I had afterward the honor of making her acquaintance, and she told me that throughout the firing she found herself repeating over and over, unconsciously, the lines of the song, "Charge! Stuart! pay off Ashby's score, In Stonewall Jackson's way." The enemy had thus effected their object, and retreated hotly pursued.
"Horses' hoofs a squad at a trot, coming east! some of Ashby's of course, but you stay here and put earth on the fire while I take a look." Rifle in hand, he threaded the thick undergrowth between the camp and the road. It was late in the afternoon, but the road lay yet in sunshine between the clover and the wheat, the bloomy orchards and the woods of May.
Yet deeply as Harry had been affected by Ashby's death, it could not remain in his mind long, because they had passed the Massanuttons now, and Fremont and Shields following up the valley must soon unite. Harry believed that Jackson intended to strike a blow.
Benjamin, dazzled by Ashby's exploits, had given him authority to raise and command a force of independent cavalry. A reference to this authority and a threat of resignation was Ashby's reply to Jackson's orders.
The Third Corps, under General French, which occupied Ashby's Gap, was sent forward rapidly to Buford's support, where its First Division, commanded by General Hobart Ward, pushed through the Gap, driving the enemy before it, but with mutual loss.
So along about half-past one o'clock, just as we had got the kitchen cleared, and mother and I had got out the big wheels to spin a few rolls, we always liked to spin together, and mother was always good company; my brother Jonas that was the youngest of us looked out of the window, and says he: 'Here comes Joe Ashby's wife with a six-quart pail.
For a moment there was a shade of embarrassment on Ashby's face, and then it passed. He took her hand and pressed it fervently. "Dolores," he said "dear little friend of mine, I can never forget you as long as I live, and all that was done for me by you and yours. This sudden meeting with you is the most delightful thing that could possibly have happened."
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