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Updated: June 4, 2025
This detachment, moving with difficulty through the thickets, found a stronger force of infantry within the forest; the guns opened with grape at a range of one hundred yards, and the Confederates, threatened on either flank, fell back in some confusion. The remainder of Winder's line had meanwhile met with a decided check. The enemy along the hollow road was strongly posted.
This man was not only unpunished, but the Government is to-day supporting his children in luxury by the rent it pays for the use of his property the well-known Winder building, which is occupied by one of the Departments at Washington. I confess that all my attempts to satisfactorily analyze Winder's character and discover a sufficient motive for his monstrous conduct have been futile.
Amid a hell of shots, bayonet work, shouts, and cries 1st Virginia broke; fell back upon the 42d, that in its turn was overwhelmed. Down came the blue wave on Taliaferro's flank. The wheat field filled with uproar. Taliaferro broke, Campbell broke. The Stonewall stirred like leaves in autumn. Ronald, colonel of the 2d, commanding in Winder's place, made with despatch a line of battle.
This man was not only unpunished, but the Government is to-day supporting his children in luxury by the rent it pays for the use of his property the well-known Winder building, which is occupied by one of the Departments at Washington. I confess that all my attempts to satisfactorily analyze Winder's character and discover a sufficient motive for his monstrous conduct have been futile.
The Stonewall Brigade, which should have been placed in second line behind them, had not yet received its orders; it was more than a half-mile distant, in rear of Winder's artillery, and hidden from the first line by the trees and undergrowth. Beyond the wheat-field 1500 Federals, covered by a line of skirmishers, had formed up in the wood.
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