The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-08

"Heie lHe most oeiiCdteiJ HuEtuTeu
and refined ladies OF the land were
ever found among the foremost in all
good works. and never weary in we'll
doing for the sick and suffering SOL
diers OF both sections throughout the
whole Of that sad and sangulnary cpl
sode in our country's history.
JacIxson's Teddy.
Having fingered to the last allow
able moment with the members OF my
family ''hereinbefore mentioned"-as
the legal documents would term them
it was after 10 o'clock at night
when L returned to headquarters for
final instructions, and before going to
the generals room l ordered two
whiskey toddies to be brought up at
Ter me. Whey they appeared. / Of
fered one of the glasses to Jackson.
but he drew back. saying:
No, no. colonel. you must excuse
me; I never drink intoxicating IL
quors.'
Il know that. general" said l. "but.
though You habltually abstain, as L
do myself, from everything Of the sort,
there are occasions, and this one of
them. when n stimulant will do us
both good, otherwise / would neither
take ii myself nor offer 1t to you. SO
general rule and join me in teddy
to might"
He again shook his head. but, never
theless. took the tumbler and began
to sip it's contents. Presently putting
1t on the table after having but part
ly cmptied it, ne said:
Colonel, do you know why 1 habit
ualiy abstain from intoxicating
drinks?" And, on my replying in the
negative. he continued:
Why, sir, because + like the taste
OF them, and when 1 discovered that
TO be the cage l made up my. mind at
once 10 do without them altogether"
Help Asked From Richmond.
After this characteristic reason for
his temperate habits. he handed me
the documents I was to take to Rich
mond. together with memorandum
of other matters TO be attended to
there, whereupon, bidding him good
by, L left his. room and was soon on
the road 10 Stanton realizing the
discomtorts OF midnight ride in the
rain, with nothing but the darkness
visible" When / arrived at Staun
ton. learning that Il portion OF the
Central Railroad between Gordonsville
and Richmond had, day or two be-
fore, been torn up by the enemy and
that / would. therefore, be obliged to
turn off at Charlottesville for Lynch
burg, so as 10 take the Southside
Railroad. which would keep me a day
or two longer on the route. + tele-
graphed 10 the Confederate Secretary
OF War as follows:
Jackson in critical position.
Send him all the help you can spare
Am on my way to explain situation.
but the Central Railroad being cut.
cannot reach you until day after to-
morrow"
Operations In the valley.
On getting TO Richmond by the
roundabout way had 10 go. 1t was q
great gratificat ion TO and that the au-
thorities there, Immediately upon the
reception of my dispatch, had tel.-
graphed to North Carolina for addi-
tional troops and that General Law
ton. with several thousand men. was
already en- route to reinforce Jackson
in the Valley. his advance passing by
rail through Richmond the day after
my arrival there In the meantime
jackson. with his little army of $1,000
men, was making good his promise
to send forward the prisoners, cap
tured property. etc. and at the same
time rot only 10 battle the converging
armies tina. were seeking 10 surround
him, b also TO beat them IN detail
The mastery movements by which
these results were accomplished have
been so fully and faithfully described
by others. and especially by Colonel
Allen, ia his admirable paper on
"Jacksons Valley Campaign" pub
lished in the Philadelphia Weekly
Times OF November 80, 1878, that /
shall not attempt 10 detail them here
contenting myself with a mere out
line OF their more salient features 10
preserve the continuity of my nara
tive.
Leaving Winchester on Saturday
,
march that day with the main body
OF his troops as far as Strasburg, his
line. including prisoners. large park
Of artillery and 1000 wagons. being
nearly twelve miles long Al Stras-
burg he went into camp to rest HE
men. who. since the previous after
noon. had come fifty miles. and also ia
wait for Winder. who had been left
behind with the Stonewal Brigade 10
cover the retreat and recall the Second
Virginia Regiment, which had been
sent 10 Loudown Heights, and which
by the way, marched that SATURDAY.
evening from across Shenandoah TO a
point beyond Newtown. making more
than thirty five miles without rations
over muddy roads, amidst a success
sion OF showers that drenched its men,
bers 10 the skin. Jackson's position
was now directly between that of the
two hostile armies which had been sent
to crush OF capture" him, Fremont
with force numerically equal TO his
own. being but five miles to the ives,
OF him, and Shields within twelve
TO the east, with full division, sup
ported by Mcdowell with two other d.
visions. But though $4,000 men were
thus upon his tanks within striking
distance Of ht-n and TWO other armies
under Banks and Saxton were follow
ing in his rear. he halted for twenty
four hours II StrasburE
Standing there like a hunted stas
at bay defying his pursuers. he pre-
scented so bold a front TO them that
Fremont paused in his advance near
Wardensville. and Shields came no fur
Their than Front Royal: though the
former had telegraphed to Washing
ton that he would certainly occupy
Strasburg by Saturday, Sist. and the
latter had boosted that, with the al
vision sent forward under him by Nc
Dowell, TO seize the same strategic
point, he would be able to clean out
the Valley Both were puzzled by