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Updated: June 4, 2025
I managed to ask. She drew a telegram from her bag, as though the movement were a relief. "This is from the doctor in Boston his name is Magruder. They have got Ham there, it seems. A horse kicked him in the head, after he fell, he had just recovered consciousness." I took the telegram. The wordy seemed meaningless, all save those of the last sentence.
Major Magruder has had his day of success, and now feels that Othello's occupation is gone. He goes no more to the Colonial Office, lives among his friends on the memories of his Committee, not always to their gratification, and is beginning to think that as his work is done he may as well resign Killicrankie to some younger politician.
President Davis, with Generals Lee and Magruder, were in place on the pretty green before the old colonial college edifice when the Rosedale people came up. Davis saluted Mrs. Atterbury with cordial urbanity; but, as the troops were already in column, there was only time for hasty presentation of the strangers. Jack watched the rather piebald pageant with absorbed interest.
There were a number of striking looking models present whom Eugene knew either by reputation, whispered comment of friends, or personally Zelma Desmond, who had posed for Eugene, Hedda Anderson, Anna Magruder and Laura Matthewson among others. Angela was struck and in a way taken by the dash and beauty of these girls.
Within the knowledge of my troops, there had gone on formerly the transfer of organized bodies of ex-Confederates to Mexico, in aid of the Imperialists, and at this period it was known that there was in preparation an immigration scheme having in view the colonizing, at Cordova and one or two other places, of all the discontented elements of the defunct Confederacy Generals Price, Magruder, Maury, and other high personages being promoters of the enterprise, which Maximilian took to readily.
On the evening of the 27th, Magruder made a feint with Kershaw's and some other brigades of this division, near Alens, as the troops in his front showed a disposition to retire. A line of battle was formed, skirmishers thrown out, and an advance ordered. Our skirmishers had not penetrated far into the thicket before they were met by a volley from the enemy's line of battle.
Huger, called by Magruder to his assistance, turned aside from the road which had been assigned to him, and when he was recalled by an urgent message from Lee, advanced with the timidity which almost invariably besets the commander of an isolated force in the neighbourhood of a large army. Longstreet and Hill encamped south-west of Charles City cross roads, but saw nothing of the enemy.
Magruder, the Confederate commander, had only eleven thousand men to defend Yorktown and the thirteen-mile line of the Warwick. McClellan, on the contrary, had fifty thousand at hand, and as many more within call, with which to break the Confederate line and continue his proposed "rapid movements."
"Besides this, all other bridges above New Bridge, and all the fords above that point, were open to us." To this General Magruder subsequently responded as follows: "New Bridge was finished on Friday evening, the 27th, instead of Saturday, 28th of June. "I wrote from memory in reference to the time of its being finished.
Across that river, all day long McClellan, with sixty-five thousand men, had rested behind earthworks, bewildered by Magruder, demonstrating in front of Richmond with twenty-eight thousand. Now, at the twelfth hour, he sent two brigades, French and Meagher. Night fell, black as pitch. The forest sprang dense, from miry soil. The region was one where Nature set traps.
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