The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-20

.terlninuDle Time 10 mo. And 5IHcll LII
foremost soldier of the nge slowly raised
nil my resentment died away, and from
,tfatymoment;1 have lbyed MIN. Ills man
nor, his mood, his wliblrgnppentpnc had
cliunged. Ills gaze was steadfnst. but no
longer stern. There was something OF
authority Iii Ills tnlcn--theie3 was always
thut.-but }ttbhro was pathos, too. Thc
square jaw, the gloomy brow. the firm
lips, mist have been there, but aid
not scc item Ills eyes Were moist, his
voice ward ,ni,sicnl II d asked many
questions about o,it, march. its delnSs.
the pnsslgc of the Cup. the severity Of the
action there, the condition Of the TROOPS
the number OF 1redcra1s ut tho fuss, anu
.he route they lintl probably taken nc
alluded to my method OF handling flank-
crs and asked II I was familiar with IN
aim warfare. And with deep feeling nc
spoke Of the bitter combat Of last night
II struggle In which, 80 many OF MS own
old command had fallen the men VINO
Il year before Z on that same field, "hcre
they had turned The tide Of battle, Ind
made immortal thb two simple words,
E!stone will = s M e III IL h "a
His officers told me later that for
three days ana nights he had scarcciy
silent. From tho day OF his detachment
lie had been perplcxlns Pope ~ tnn t..s
su At n,nneuvers, now Offering hattle,
now Guiding at one moment holding
the fords Of Bull nun. and IN nm hour
disappearing as though the earth nad
swallowed him---now concentrating az! w,
adversary Mt Manassas. and amor, huri-
ing him nortllwnrd under Pore ira ntlc
orders-orders Inspired by ms OWL e lH'
ing feint on Washington.
LoNGsTRENr's COMING AND ITS 4
rrho snot on which / found jackson
was at the foot of Stony Ridge, little
enst OF Pages Lane aud barely milo
north OF the 1Varrenton Road IN
word. 1t was n good milo, nearly que
west OF the little village Of GroYeton.
jackson himself gave me the time
..ninh a. clock"-but TINT must have heen
something Ike ten or twelve minutes Vtt'i
after the moment Of our meeting.
4 About half IN hour later-thnt Isl
,,,nIt half-past nine. a courier from
st,,art cnllopcd up with the cry that the
hcnd Of Longstrcets column was AT
GAINESVILLE. soon after that written
dispntchcs came In. and by half -past Yen
n min line Of flankers came INTO VIEW
supported by skirinishcrs with lheil pu s,,
on the wnrrenton Turnpike. inns proT ~,
ia be the advance guard of Hoods Hood y! ~
vision, COf1llnaNtieu # ~ 11'eA'-1''>1-'
mel Upton, of the Fifth Texas.
Nv ~ noon the division was IN line
OF battle, Hoods brigade on the rish i
and Laws brigade on the icit o. wv
Ivorrrnton Road. General Laws lcft cX-
ta,,l,od 4 r within half milo of Stone
,voli,a right. and this break was soon
afterward supported though not occu-
nicd nv Wilcox's three briga des, when Sch
i,nd come IN from the lIopcwell PASS. vi
a. we looked toward the west. dense
c,o,,ds Of dust obscured the turnpike yet
we could see Longstreet's columns swiils
.,n1, off to their right and dcployins lnt to
i'm Of battle. This brought them dlrect-
~ Al Ponies flnnk--Whiclls was IN th '
n,r--nnd some OF us are stti! "onaerlhs
why General Longstreet u,o n.y. ~, 49, -
and there spring forward ms ioHs ,n'.7
md cnyelop the enemys lelt hilu tsHt
PIVOT Or CAMPAIGN Al lli i'.'.' y.
~, c,netor the fate OF that campaign
=, voted not at all on the GroNeton coaii-
lion. but on the passage OF f'uit isul'
Mo,,ntnin ut Thoroughfere Gap.
trh,t ~ a strange story-not YET toAu'
Ana tho military writer Of the futnro
via, have a strange task Wnen pe Btu
n4tomnt to slit and reconcile the Strange sEt
accounts on that subject Wflch s tshi' =
To-day as accepted history 49,,
1arly in the afternoon OF the CO.,
thn Federa1 general Ricketts,, took posi-
tinn m The eastern side Of the gorge,
sRic,ctts had four bligades of infantry
two briEndes of cavalry and SIX &ba .t HeI :
los OF artillcry-an army OF ten tnou-
sand seasoned soldiers, whose sole uuty
was TO hold the pass against lIonsstreet's
approach. That rugged cleft through 'he
mountain was unassailnble. me haio
OF nature never shaped sallyport more
fcnrsome, more fmpenetrable. ana Se,
General Ricketts, suddenly abandoned u
,v,tbo,t \ battle and without apparent
cnuse.
For some time the story went that Rick
Gifts "retircd at shutdown under orders. I
nut General Tope's chapter Of lamenta'
lions erfectunlly disposes Of that theory.
Thcn It was set forth, and is still be.
,,cvnd that General Lee rushed column
through 1Iopewcll Pass and thus turne :.
tho Federal right. hut Investigation WI
show that the HONEYWELL detachmen'-
wIlcox,s dlvision-dld it1aprroach with1i
nvc miles of him, neither did 1T emerge
from It's mountain fastness until Thor
oughfare had been lrelinqutshed.
Indeed. for so small q force TO hav'
gone forth unsupported on the Feuen
side OF the mountain S~ouia naVc peei
crlminnllv perllons No such move We
contemplated, The real object N SELL
ing Hopowel was to- have nm alternat'
base for forcing q passage by the mai man
army. :,
LONGSTR1ET"S ERRONEOUS az
COUNT 26s
Tn fullness Of time-thnt is twenty-five
years after the war-GenerM Longstree'
in "Eattes and Leaders" Vol. II. PIP. AZ
500, lcngthily and deliberately recounte'
tho facts-as he understood them-an
his utterances OH doubtful questions ar
now regarded by many rs final. Certai
| It is that some Of the highest authori
| ties follow him with unfaltcring hdeNt!
Even so ablo military writer as Hen
derson accepts his later account OF thn
vital incident with Understanding talts
| as also does that most careful and d'l'
gent Of annalists, John Goldman Ropes
On page ST. b. and Il, Vol. II. GcnerI
,onsstreet states that he arrived q
Xxx tu2t General eLoonnHstrsefls mistaken il
memory is ut fault-unac countsply :
fault He reached the pass at high nonl
and for four mortal hours ne lay ~ 2, hi !,
ouaced BY the roadside there, wallln