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Its premature destruction not only prevented us from scouting and foraging on the north bank, but gave notice to the enemy of our purpose to abandon the country. Annoyed, and doubtless expressing the feeling in my countenance, as I watched the flames, Ewell, after a long silence, said, "You don't like it."
Stuart, supported by Ewell, was at once ordered to seize the former; but when the cavalry reached Dispatch Station, a small Federal detachment retreated to the south bank of the Chickahominy and fired the timbers.
The farmers merely regarded them with lowering brows and refused to say anything about Union troops. Harry had parted company for the time with his friends of the Invincibles. They were far ahead with Ewell, while he and Dalton remained with Lee on the banks of the Potomac. Yet the delay was not as long as it seemed to him.
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Ewell was therefore ordered to support Ashby, and to hold Fremont in check until the Stonewall Brigade had passed through Strasburg. The task was easily accomplished. At seven in the morning the Confederate pickets were driven in. As they fell back on their supports, the batteries on both sides came rapidly into action, and the Federal infantry pressed forward.
He then suggested that, if Banks was too strong in numbers and position, Jackson and Ewell combined should move on Warrenton, where a Federal force was reported; or that Ewell and Field should attack Fredericksburg. "The blow," he added, "wherever struck, must, to be successful, be sudden and heavy. The troops must be efficient and light. April 26.
He turned, left the forest glade and came out into the camp lying now beneath the last rays of the sun. That evening he spent with Ewell and his staff, passed the night in a friendly tent, and at dawn turned Dundee's head toward the Blue Ridge. McDOWELL At Stanardsville he heard from a breathless crowd about the small hotel news from over the mountains.
The start on the 9th was early. Hill, anxious to redeem his shortcomings, marched long before daylight, and soon caught up with Ewell and Winder. Half of the cavalry covered the advance; the remainder, screening the left flank, scouted west and in the direction of Madison Court House.
Some hosses run better hot; some run better cold.... Fourteen hundred fifteen hundred, and O. K. Better not forget that, Jimmy." "I won't, old-timer. Guess I better take him now, eh?" "As well now as any other time. He's your hoss." Major Ewell Duval Pettigrew was an early riser, but he was barely into his trousers when a bell boy tapped at his door.
The Confederate Congress had ordered all government tobacco and other public property to be burned. The rebel General Ewell, who was in charge of the city, asserts that he took the responsibility of disobeying, and that the fires were not started by his orders.
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