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Rachael's breast rose, her eyes brightened angrily. "Perhaps you'll tell me what more I can do, Greg!" He looked at her in surprise; the shell of Mrs. Breckenridge's cool reserve was not often pierced. "My dear girl " he stammered. "Why, Rachael !"
This day I learned from some of these irregulars whom we made prisoners that Breckenridge's division of infantry, en route to the Shenandoah Valley by way of Gordonsville, was passing slowly up the railroad parallel to me, and that the enemy's cavalry had left its position on the south side of the Chickahominy, and was marching on the old Richmond and Gordonsville road toward Gordonsville, under command of General Wade Hampton, the information being confirmed by a scouting party sent out to cut the telegraph wires along the railroad in the night.
Of the remaining brigade, Gladden's, the merest fragment cohered; this little band, or detachment, bivouacked near the Hamburg road. Trabue's brigade, except one regiment which had become separated, spent the night in the tents of McDowell's brigade camp; Breckenridge's other two brigades were between Shiloh Church and the river.
The conflict in front of Breckenridge's Division was the bloodiest, with the possible exception of that of Mayree's Hill, in front of Fredericksburg, and the "Bloody Angle," of any during the war.
After the termination of this engagement, several regiments either the Gladden brigade, now commanded by Colonel Deas, or one of the brigades of Breckenridge's reserve moved into the field to the left of Lauman.
They're hid in the cedar thickets over thar, an' they'll come out to-morrow mornin' like a million yellin' devils, an' try ter sweep our right wing offen the face o' the arth. D'ye understand what I've tole ye?" "Yes. Breckenridge's division is on their right, and south of Stone River.
That's how I knew you was over here hunting." "But if you're in a hurry, leave me to do that," said the boy. "I'm all right now." "You're in as big a hurry as I be, Nuck," returned the ranger, with a grim smile. "I'm going to take you with me over to Mr. James Breckenridge's. Ev'ry gun we kin git may count to-day, lad."
The gunboat Tyler, commanded by Lieutenant Gwin, fired from ten minutes to three o'clock until ten minutes to four upon Breckenridge's brigades, and, joined by the Lexington, commanded by Lieutenant Shirk, fired later upon the portion of Bragg's command close to the river-bank, for thirty-five minutes.
In the battle of New Market, which was fought along the northwestern edge of town, occurred an episode of the Civil war so remarkable as to equal the bravery of that of the three hundred Spartans. The V. M. I. Cadets, a battalion of boys, from fourteen to twenty years of age, was ordered from school at Lexington, Virginia, to join Breckenridge's forces.
Breckenridge had been ordered back to the valley by General Lee as soon as he heard of Hunter's victory near Staunton, but now that my expedition had been discovered, the movement of Breckenridge's troops on the railroad was being timed to correspond with the marches of my command till Hampton could get more nearly parallel with me.
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