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D. H. Hill's division was the rear-guard, and the cavalry under Stuart covered the whole, a detached squadron being with Longstreet, Jackson, and McLaws each. At any rate, the order showed that Lee's army was in two parts, separated by the Potomac and thirty or forty miles of road. As soon as Jackson should reduce Harper's Ferry they would reunite.
Late in the day the enemy made a spirited attack upon us, so much so that General McLaws sent two companies of boys, formerly of Fizer's Brigade of Georgia Militia. The boys were all between sixteen and eighteen, and a finer body of young men I never saw.
Across Bull Run and out towards Washington McLaws followed with hasty step the track of Longstreet and Jackson. On the 5th or 6th we rejoined at last, after a two months' separation from the other portion of the army. Lee was now preparing to invade Maryland and other States North, as the course of events dictated.
"Harper's Ferry is not yet taken, but I think it will fall. But Hill, McLaws and Longstreet are all in this pass or the other which leads through the mountain. They mean to hold us as long as they can, and then hang on to the flank of our army." He passed on and the little regiment advanced more rapidly.
General McLaws says, 'General Barksdale, withdraw your men to Marye's Hill. Well, I've got to do it, haven't I? General McLaws knows, now doesn't he? Yes, just one more round. Load! Kneel! Commence firing!" In the late afternoon the town was evacuated, Barksdale drawing off in good order across the stormed-upon open. He disappeared the Mississippi brigade disappeared from the Federal vision.
Behind the wood, in a grassy hollow moderately sheltered from the artillery fire, at the edge of the ghastly field hospital, a young surgeon, sleeves rolled up and blood from head to foot, met the medical director. "Doctor, the Virginia Legion came on with General McLaws. They've just brought their colonel in Fauquier Cary, you know. I wish you would look at his arm." The two looked.
"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 and bring up all stragglers. "The commands of Generals Jackson, McLaws and Walker, after accomplishing the objects for which they have been detached, will join the main body at Boonsboro' or Hagerstown."
The same evening the railway conveyed Longstreet's advanced brigade to Gordonsville, and with the exception of D.H. Hill's and McLaws' divisions, which remained to watch McClellan, the whole army fled. On the 15th Lee met his generals in council.
Jackson's numbers, even after he had been reinforced by McLaws and Walker, at no time approached those arrayed against him, and 19,400 men, including Stuart and three brigades of Hill, and 40 guns, is a liberal estimate of his strength. The losses on both sides had been exceedingly heavy. Nearly 13,000 men, 3 including no less than fifteen generals and brigadiers, had fallen within six hours.
General Longstreet's command will pursue the main road as far as Boonsborough, where it will halt with reserve, supply, and baggage trains of the army. General McLaws, with his own division and that of General R. H. Anderson, will follow General Longstreet.
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