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Its return is rather sooner than I had originally contemplated, but having accomplished much of what I proposed on leaving the Rappahannock namely, relieving the valley of the presence of the enemy and drawing his army north of the Potomac I determined to recross the latter river.
Information he had gotten about the fords of the upper Ohio had induced him to indicate Buffington's Island as the point where he would attempt to recross that stream.
The people are always fighting; some to get slaves, others from "a bad heart." He was afraid to go back to his country for fear of being recaptured, resold, and made again to recross the Desert. The domestic and political history of Africa is an eternal cycle of miseries and misfortunes; better that the African world had not been created.
Lavender's admiration of her magnificent proportions as she bent to pick up her yellow book. "Aurora," he said, "I know not what secret you share with the goddesses; suffer me to go in and give thanks for this hour spent in your company." And he was about to recross the privet hedge when she caught him by the coat-tag, saying: "No, Don Pickwixote, you must dine with us.
If Jackson could hold the bridge at Port Republic, and also prevent Fremont reaching the bluffs, he could recross when he had done with Shields, and fight Fremont without fear of interruption. To reverse the order, and to annihilate Fremont before falling upon Shields, was out of the question.
They were permitted to recross the Potomac without molestation, to reenter what may be called their own territory, to reorganize, rest, reequip, and in due time to reappear as formidable as ever. It is plain that the hero of Gettysburg was not the man destined to crush the rebellion. Here were three men, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, all good men and gallant soldiers.
At an early hour skirmishing commenced, and soon the commands of Hampton, the two Lees, Robinson, and Jones, were engaged along the whole Culpepper line, from Welford's Ford, on the Hazel, down to Stevensburg. Each command acted nobly, and the Yankees were forced, after a fight of nearly twelve hours, to recross the river with great losses.
General McClellan complained that his orders had not been obeyed, and said that after these orders he "did not think it possible for Stuart to recross," and believed "the destruction or capture of his entire force perfectly certain." Soon afterward the Federal commander attempted reconnoissances in his turn.
At sight of us he, as a rule, left his birds to take care of themselves, and vanished like a rabbit into one of the ravines that cross and recross the plain in a network. And this was the King's peace in Poitou! My troopers rode stolidly on, taking turns with the led horse, and now and again exchanging a word with each other. Pierrebon followed behind them, whistling the "Rappel d'Aunis."
He won, however, the battle of Antietam, for, although the Confederates afterwards claimed that it was a drawn battle, they immediately retired, but even then failed to pursue his advantage, and allowed Lee to recross the Potomac and escape, to the deep disgust of everybody and the grief of Lincoln.
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