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Just at this supreme moment Major Goggans, of McLaws' staff, who had been at the fort and took in the worst phases of the situation, rode to General Longstreet and reported the fortress impregnable without axes and scaling ladders. Under this misapprehension, General Longstreet gave the fatal order for the assaulting columns to retire, and all the support back to their entrenchments.
Soon after our line of battle was formed and Kershaw awaiting orders from McLaws to advance, a line of support came up in our rear, and mistaking us for the enemy, commenced firing upon us. Handkerchiefs went up, calls of "friends," "friends," but still the firing continued.
From the south and south-east came Anderson and McLaws, the batteries unlimbering on every eminence, and the infantry, hitherto held back, attacking with the vigour which their gallant commanders knew so well how to inspire. And from the west, formed in three lines, Hill's division to the front, came the Second Army Corps.
They had a reception the whole of the morning. Crowds came. Wounded soldiers, servants, and working-men even. The sweetest little children namesakes dressed to their eyes, with bouquets of japonica or tiny cards in their little fat hands with their names. Robert Burwell, of Clarke, who married Miss Clayton there; Randall, author of 'My Maryland'; General McLaws, Wright, Gardner, and many others.
Owing to the casualties in battle during the last few months and the disasters of the two Valley campaigns, many changes in the personnel of the companies and regiments necessarily took place, once we got fairly settled in camp. Brigadier General Kershaw had been made Major General in place of General McLaws soon after the battle of the Wilderness.
But the way into Arizona through northwestern New Mexico was too long, and the experiment was not considered successful. In the fall, the families moved into a stockade fort, planned to be 152 feet wide and 300 feet long. Only part of this was finished. Probably twenty or more houses were built within it. August 23, 1876, a postoffice was established, with John McLaws in charge.
Dick gasped and he heard someone calling again to him to come, but he read on: General Stuart will detach a squadron of cavalry to accompany the commands of Generals Longstreet, Jackson and McLaws, and with the main body of the cavalry will cover the route of the army, bringing up all the stragglers that may have been left behind.
Generals McLaws and Anderson will remain with me, demonstrate against these people and divert their attention. When can you start?" "I will start at four, sir." Lee rose. "Very good! Then we had better try to get a little sleep. I see Tom spreading my blanket now. The Wilderness! General, do you remember, in Mexico, the Noche Triste trees and their great scarlet flowers?
At length the guns which Stuart had established on Hazel Grove, crossing their fire with those of McLaws and Anderson, gained the upper hand over the Union batteries.
Jackson's army corps extended from Hamilton's Crossing to Port Royal. McLaws' and Anderson's divisions occupied Lee's Hill and the ridge northward, and a brigade watched Banks' Ford. Stuart was with his main body, some 2400 strong, at Culpeper, observing the great mass of Federal horsemen at Warrenton Junction, and the line of the Rappahannock was held by cavalry pickets.
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