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The Louisianians, led by Taylor, were pouring through the village Ewell was behind Jackson and the cavalry had quite disappeared. Lying in the shadow of the wall, waiting for the order forward, Cleave suddenly saw again and plainly what at the moment he had seen without noting Stafford's face, very handsome beneath soft hat and plume, riding with the 6th.
Bring in your company behind mine, if you choose." Ferry drew back a few ranks but stayed with the column; Quinn had had the toil of the chase, he should have also the glory of the fight. So Ferry sent Gholson whose horsemanship won a cheer from the passing Louisianians as he cleared the roadside fence across to Quinn, bidding the Lieutenant slacken speed and count himself a reserve.
About mid-February the Allotment Commission began its splendid work in camp; and it seemed to Ailsa that the mental relief it brought to her patients was better than any other medicine that is, better for the Union patients; for now there were, also, in the wards, a number of Confederate wounded, taken at various times during the skirmishing around Fairfax quiet, silent, dignified Virginians, and a few fiery Louisianians, who at first, not knowing what to expect, scarcely responded to the brusque kindness of the hospital attendants.
Ah! then the common people began to hate him. "The old tyrant!" "You don't mean an old tyrant?" "Well, then, why don't he build when the public need demands it? What does he live in that unneighborly way for?" "The old pirate!" "The old kidnapper!" How easily even the most ultra Louisianians put on the imported virtues of the North when they could be brought to bear against the hermit.
They were the fanatical Saraceus of the South; while nothing could stand before the broad scimeters of the former, so nothing could stand in the way of the rifle and bayonet of the latter. The Louisianians were the Frenchmen of the South. Of small stature, they were the best marchers in the army.
McDowell, with a last desperate rally, formed a line of battle, a gleaming, formidable crescent, half hid by a cloud of skirmishers. Out of the woods by the Chinn House now came Jubal Early, with Kemper's 7th Virginia, Harry Hays's Louisianians, and Barksdale's 13th Mississippi. They took position under fire and opened upon the enemy's right.
A return to the lemon gave me the opportunity to retire. Where Jackson got his lemons 'No fellow could find out, but he was rarely without one. May 21. The next day, marching in the grey of the morning, the force moved north, the Louisianians in advance.
Winder had with him four regiments, about 1200 strong, and two batteries. In rear came Taylor with his Louisianians; and Jackson, leaving Major Dabney to superintend the passage of the river, rode with the leading brigade. The enemy's pickets were encountered about a mile and a half down the river, beyond a strip of woods, on either side of the Luray road.
Her eyes refilled they were red from earlier distresses and she motioned across the hall: "The captain of the Louisianians, you know, has sent for him!" "Yes," I said, "the Captain's hit hard. I saw him when he was struck." "Oh, Dick! then you were at the very front!" "Did you think I was at the rear?" She looked down. "I couldn't help hoping it." "Then you were thinking of me."
"Oh, he's faring well enough, doubtless. Trust those Louisianians for cookery. When Irving is in New Orleans there are special houses where he drops in on Fridays, just for court-bouillon. I've known him to weed a bed of geraniums rather than miss it." "Such are the vicissitudes of pedestrianism. Well, tempus fugit; let us be going. We have just an hour to reach our dining-hall.
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