The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-07-10


aroused from moist touches and sweet dresmg
by the order TO about face" and return 90
trout ROYAL. Twenty five thousand troops
were ordered 10 reinforce Banks and drive
light OF our counienances ceased 60 illamine
the dark ravincs of the Blue Ridge. had
fallen upon our Congressional SAMPSON
whose skill fortiiying argument had
failed 10 defend military point. and had
driven HIN beyond tho limits oi sacred /
soil The order reduced the plans of Nc. |
Clellan. Mcdowell add the STAR" Of the
second and third magnitude. 20 that very
imaginable. but peculiarly Undesirable cha
otc form popularity known a. cooked |
hat"
raK KKrEoGxA2f.
Sulicnness done half convey idea of
the mood our boys were in when they die
covered our destination. Mot loud bat
deep were their objnrgssions. as they march.
ed over the devastated plains Of Manassas
to the Gap railroad. where they supposed
that at least train OF cattle cars would car
~ them TO the valley. In this. too. we
were disappointed. for We had 10 march ev-
cry step Of that most circulating road from
Manassas Junction. 10 the Shenandoah. I
would, were ! Ia proper state Of mind. de
scribe that road. for 1t i worthy of any pen.
All can say OF il il, that no. Blue Ridge
plow horse. whose memory was above medi.
ocri,y and wqose education had been al all
respectable. would have gone over II the
second time. IL the narrow wax 90 eternal
happiness is half as rough. rocky aud crook
ed. do not wonder that so few walk therein.
When we started, Banks was At Williams
port, Md. but when we reached Front Roy
tables on his fleet. footed pursuer Fremont
too. had left his mountain jungles. and came
tearing down 10 have snap at the old fox
as he fed before Banks booming tally hor'
Al manassas We met the main body OF Gee
rvs brigade. which. frightened out of half
, its wardrobe and all is wits. had ded FROM
its posts along the railroad. and this h the
reason we didn't wait for the wagon" and
, ride instead of pcdestrianizing. As we
marched pat the smoking ruins of Geery'i
, camp, our boys. who we're already in good
fighting huuor. prayed to meet the terrible
/, host which had caused this wonderful STAN
j., pede and cheated them out oftransportation
i, I say wonderful stampede. for not man o
!. all the regiments | met and questioned haC
:. seen hide or hair offs rebel, while their IA
> ces looked as II the chalk for their belts he
: got on the wrong place. This last. in fac
;. their only reason vas that their advance pos
= at Front Royal had been attacked and thu
little squad there captured or killed. 1bi
i, post was thirty miles from Oeerys mai
: camp, which was splendid position for de
= fence
n On reaching the hills above Front Roys
a We found the town occupied by that arm
a with banners 800 strong.) which had dis
"A comftted all Geery's brigade. Ashby sa'
our adyance-saw we wore no white starch
% cd collars or clean cothes-"shook bis mai
|. ed glove" at IA and--skedaddled His de
n. dparture was considerably accelerated by a
IL spaanf courier from old Dium's Psrrott
IN followed by the Rhode Island aud lst OH
Dragons few OF the bravest rebe
n stayed behind long enough 20 hre the depo
1T filled with captured United States stores. al
10 the two bridges over the Shenandoah. b.
i the dragons, making splendid charg
al saved the bridges. captured $50 rebels. OF
IA cannon. and all the prisoners they had take
m from Geery They also took a courier vi
~ bore the dispatch TO Jackson Of our "abo
:, face on the Rsppahannock Instead Of III
courier, Ne sent him above trhee hundred
tell him We we're on the Shenandoah. al
that thew had seen Kimbxlls brigade !.
=, Jackson heard Banks cannon laundering
4, his rear with greater eqasnimity than
4. heard his old tormentor Was on his len fisn
). 20. after making SPEECH 10 the fair rebs
- Of Winchester. Who hid given him aud
"A slanr banquet that night. he give the COZ
"A mand TO go forward. In that speech the o
Of traitor praised himself Tor the ehivslr'c
deity with which be had Kept his word TO .
ar turn and deliver his pet city from the "loa,
al some presence Of the co~ardly invaders
.o but said he must hasten 10 rescue 9th
"a, towns In the valley. sies which he would :
nal turn and seek sweet repo-e beneath &
.r smiles Of wincheslef's besuty." Banl
a, bomb hell pa, the finishing coup DE- grace
i, Jackson speech and sent him and he IT
=, forward Al double quick" amid ieen a
=, sob. Of their p-s-. sns thnnder- cf Tine
"A Samael's
A. THE sITr NfOS.
=. Tie telegraph IA. - reliable - usa
4, when IL said jackson ~ss surrounded a
:. aust surrender The conclusion vss bas
on sssppcsisior Mcdowell Vas at Fro
Roysl. shields between Lasy and Port R
public. Banks near S,rssbars. and fremo
q va. supposed 10 be -cmexhere IN JAekso'
-, froai- To understand the posi:ioa. bri
A. description OF the valley = necessary I
~, Nosh shrnasuioah run. het~een f~s n
~ steep moaatain.. one rsAehing from the !
-. lerhsnies 20 the Potomac. he other IN
u. near s.au.ssu - Frrus Royai Nansssass
=. mount.is. "a ths sash. are four pss,
= fhrpugh whsch tbs only roads from the =
~. lev raa Thee toais sll eros The sou
,,n hr>nrs. bas a TOO peian. Lsr.y Asa {
ga iunbis. shs briifes ssre harmed. st Fro