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Now, major, I'm going to review the troops this morning, and then I'll write an answer for General Jackson, and you'll take it to him and tell him I'm coming on by Stanardsville, just as he says, and that I'll rest on Sunday. Maybe even we'll find a church Presbyterian." He rose. "You'd better come with me. I've got some more questions to ask. Better see my troops, too.
There were pickets enough between the river and the camp; north, south, and east rose the mountains, and on the other side of Swift Run Gap, near Stanardsville, lay Ewell and his eight thousand. The encampment occupied low and flat ground, through which ran a swollen creek. The spring had been on the whole inclement, and now, with suddenness, winter came back for a final word.
"I really do believe the sun's up at last! What does he say? 'Move in three days by Stanardsville. Take a week's rations. Rest on Sunday. Other directions will be given as needed. Hm! Highly characteristic! Never anything more than a damned dark lantern! Well, it's something to know that we're going by Stanardsville and are to rest on Sunday! Where is Stanardsville?"
Old Jackson might as well know what beautiful children I've got. Have you any idea yourself what I'm expected to do at Stanardsville?" "I don't know what General Jackson expects, sir. But my own idea is that you'll not be long at Stanardsville." "He'll whistle again, will he?" "I think so. But I speak without authority."
He turned, left the forest glade and came out into the camp lying now beneath the last rays of the sun. That evening he spent with Ewell and his staff, passed the night in a friendly tent, and at dawn turned Dundee's head toward the Blue Ridge. McDOWELL At Stanardsville he heard from a breathless crowd about the small hotel news from over the mountains.
If I am unsuccessful in driving back his entire force he may be induced to move forward from New Market, and attempt to follow me through this Gap, where our forces would have greatly the advantage... "Under all the circumstances I will direct General Ewell to move to Stanardsville.
On April 26, when Banks moved two brigades to Harrisonburg, Ewell was at once called up to Stanardsville, twelve miles south-east of Swift Run Gap. No opportunity as yet had offered for attack. Reports of April 30 and May 31. On this very date one of them wrote in a private letter: "As sure as you and I live, Jackson is a cracked man, and the sequel will show it." April 29.
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