The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-13
MARYLANDERS IN HE
WAR.
Original Field Orders From
Generals Johnston and
jackson to Ashby.

The three military orders which
follow below are of great his.
torical interest, having never
before appeared in print. The
copies are exact, the careless
Fluctuations indicating the haste
of the writer's. They were shown
recently to he Baltimore SIN re
porter, by Judge George w Viii.
son, of Upper Marlboro, Md. who
was Il gallant soldier in the First
Maryland Battery, c. S. A..
| raised aud first commanded by
General Il. Snowden Andrews, of
Baltimore,) who received them
! from Rev James Battle Averitt
twhen stationed at Upper Mari
borO, after the war;, who was
chaplain of Colonel Turner Ash
by'S cavalry, and became the Of
fetal custodian of the precious
documents.
The first in order of the curious
papers is an order from General
j. +. Johnston to Captain AShby
when Johnston commanded the
Contederates at Harper's Ferry,
having relieved Col. L. j. Jack
son promoted to Brigadier, Gen
eral June 18th, 1861. His farthest
outpost under AShby was at Ber-
lin Bridge, which in this order of
June Sth, 1861, he directed Ash
by to burn. Johnston evacuated
Harper's Ferry on June 18th. and
and on the 22nd he issued spec
ial order complimenting the First
Maryland Regiment under Lieut..
Col. Geo. ii. Steuart, for eff
cheney in carrying out his orders.
and he further said: ''Owing to
their discipline no private prop
erty was injured and no unol1end-
ing citizen disturbed. The sol
dierly qualities of the Maryland
regiment will not be forgotten
in the day of action"
Among the property thus saved
] llOLil uSNli uCllOu Clt L 4 .UUU
musket stocks, which were sent
to North Carolina for completion
in acknowledgements Of that State
having equipped and armed the
Marylanders.
The order of January 2nd,
1862, from General jackson to
Colonel Ashby, occurred during
Jackson's sudden movement from
Winchester, to Romney, Va,
with the design to destroy the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad;
but the result. while satisfactory.
was not among JackSon's famous
successes. Moreover, intensely
cold weather enSued, with rain
and SNOW: his men were mostly
without suitable clothing to pro
tect them and hence suffered ter.
ribly. During this movement
Jackson issued an order to Gen
eral L0riug which Loring diSre-
garded. \ contention followed,
which resulted III the Confederate
W ar Department sustaining LOr-
ing. jackson Immediately re
signed his commission, and was
on the point of retiring to Lex
ington; Va, to retake his chair
at the Military Institute, when
Governor Letcher, experimenting
the tremendous loss to the Con.
federacy by jackson retiring
from the field, prevailed upon the
Richmond authorities to recon
slider their decision.
The next order from Jackson to
Ashby-April 10th, 1862 occur
red between the time jackson
fought Shields at Kernstown,
March Sth, 1862, and his defeat
of MilrOy at Mcdowell, May 10th,
following. Returning swiftly to
the Valley of Virginia, Jack
son prepared to pursue the cam
paign which resulted in the quick
and successive defeats of the
armies of Banks, Fremont and
Shields which made jackson
master of the entire valley.
In May, 1862, the First Mary.
land Infantry, under Maj. Gen.
| Ewell, joined jackson in the val
ley. Major w. w. Goldsbor-
ough, in his ellis Maryland Line,
G. S. A. tells us of jackson at
this time thus:
$40 our utter amazemeut, when
we turned our faces to where we
had passed his army the previous
evening nothing met our gaze but
the smoldering embers of his de
serted camptireS. We rubbed
our eyes and looked again and
again, 10th to believe our sense
OF vision. But gone he was, and
whittier and for what no one
could tell. Quietly in the dead
Of night, he had arisen from his
blanket and, calling his troops
around him, with them had dis.
appeared.
"For more than two weeks his
whereabouts remained a mystery.
and various were the conjectnres
70. L.