The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-23

event to leave two OF his brieades I'm
touch with the infantry" In accord
stuart detached Robcrtson's and Jones's
me 9rigad"s both under General Bcv-
port to General Lee
IN applying the voir dire t. Il witness
he is Impressed with the fact he must
lcii the truth. the whole truth. and
son Dr Mckim ignores the very i'm
portant fact that General stuart had
IN accordance. with General Lees in,
sstruction. and had ordered General
i 10 fr'n, to report 10 General Lee
never satisfactorily explained. as far
rs the writer has explored. General
Roh.rtson fingered on tho eastern. slope
~ touch with General Lee until the
battle had been virtually ended
wi Mhen stuart cut iooSe from touch
through Glasscock's Gap. in the Bull
nun Mountains at sunup on June 20.
n lay a, III. base 2 square mill;
Nidcttes soon informed Stuart that IL
was fiancock's Second Corps Of the 20 d.
toinac army. All day i2Jth) stuart
"as ia touch with the Hank OF This
corps. Hancock broke camp and rc-
tired upon Manassas. whore. ono OF the
was digging dirt" This moving col :
unn prevented stuart from executing
his plan. consequently he had to djverp.,
further south and east to avoid that
corps. as well as Tlook"r's main army
As H9eby Burns admonishes. the
aft gale". stuart had not expected
this movement Of the enemy. thcreforH
howser's Ford. on the lotomac-he had
- march just twice III. distance to
circuinvcn. lockers army.
After cutting loose from the Bun
i Kun Mountains stuart dispatched three
IoErlers 10 ac4uaint General Lee that
ne had taken the route between Hook
o. ARM aud Washington iut these
couriers never reached General Loo
HcoutihS PARTIES of the enemy i'm
Stuarts rear picked each Of them un
ana Then prevented either General Lee.
STUNT from knowing the latter;
dispatches Lad never been r4reiv.I
untii stuart j.Stn connected with tho
infantry on the Confederate left on
q 'N So or the Gettysburg iieiG.
iinnod:n.s and ,Jcnkins's Brigades
ana Whites battalion Of cavalry were
tanks of Lees infantry. stuart had
eycrN .rraspn 10 believe Robertson had
srai Lee Hooker, knowingly. kept
his army between Stuart ana Ice.
true. stuart yielded TO temptation
Wheh he captured the wagon train OF
between 20 and $50 teams near t;eorpr-
town Had he not embarrassed him
scf with this encumbrance he would
nave PASSED the Hank Cnow) Meade
ARM before Fitzpatrick Intercepted
nlni AZ IfanoTeC 10 save that wagon
recapture. he had to agar, diverge nnd
march all might. all the next dav and
night, ana not until dark Of July did
n. fnall% connect with the left OF the
onfederate infantry. after il had
fought two DAYS
IN part attributable To Stuart's absence
rom tn. front OF Lees army. But
,nere are other contributing causes
,ndt become more serious factors in
mat battle. After the TWO armies came
IN collision and the first DAVIS slccesses
IlAH hcen won. complete triumph Was
"lthln the grasp Of the great Nirginian
II ms other subordinates had complied
with his orders
Colonel Walter II. Taylor tells rs no
personally conveyed General Lees or
Der 10 General Eweil TO press those
nary Ridge his field binoculars revealed
INC CONFUSION in the enemys ranks
other writers az we'll as Colonel Tay-
ior veil Of I.ongstreets hardness and
tedlous delay. Then the lack Of con