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Title: Stonewall Jackson and the American civil war
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, G. F. R. (George Francis Robert), 1854-1903
Subjects: Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
Publisher: London (etc.) Longman, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in a neighbouring farmhouse. Thevalley of MDowell lay in equal quiet. The camp-fires ofthe Federals blazed ostentatiously in long and regularlines, and their troops seemed wrapped in sleep. At oneoclock the general reached his quarters, and threw himselfupon a bed. When his mulatto servant, knowing that hehad eaten nothing since morning, came in with food, he said,* I want none ; nothing but sleep, and in a few minutes hewas slumbering like a healthy child. It seems, however, that the march of the turningcolumn had already been countermanded. Putting himselfin his enemys place, Jackson had foreseen Milroys move-ments. If the one could move by night, so could the other;and when he rode out at dawn, the Federals, as he antici-pated, had disappeared. The next day he sent a laconicdespatch to Eichmond: * God blessed our arms with victoryat MDowell yesterday. This announcement was doubtless received by thepeople of Virginia, as Dabney declares, with peculiar delight. i UJ 00 OS 7) •2 —
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COMMENTS 301 On May 4 Johnston had evacuated Yorktown. On the 5thhe had checked the pursuit at WilHamsburg, inflictingheavy losses, but had continued his retreat. On the 9thNorfolk was abandoned ; and on the 11th the * Merrimac,grounding in the James, was destroyed by her commander.* The victory of MDowell was the one gleam of brightnessathwart all these clouds. It must be admitted, however,that the victory was insignificant. The repulse of 2,500men by 4,000 was not a remarkable feat; and it would evenappear that MDowell might be ranked with the battles oflost opportunities. A vigorous counterstroke would probablyhave destroyed the whole of the attacking force. Theriflemen of the West, however, were not made of the stuffthat yields readily to superior force. The fight for the bridgewould have been fierce and bloody. Twilight had fallenbefore the Confederate reinforcements arrived upon thescene; and under such conditions the losses must havebeen very heavy. But to lose men was exactly

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