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“Jeb” Stuart was a verydaring fellow and the bestcavalryman America ever pro-duced. At the Second Ma-nassas , soon after we heard ofthe advance of McDowell andPorter, Stuart came up andmade a report to General Lee .When he had done so GeneralLee said he had no orders atthat moment, but he requestedStuart to wait awhile. There-upon Stuart turned round inhis tracks, lay down on theground, put a stone under hishead and instantly fell asleep.General Lee rode away andin an hour returned. Stuartwas still sleeping. Lee askedfor him, and Stuart sprang tohis feet and said, “ Here I am,General.”
General Lee replied, “ I wantyou to send a message to yourtroops over on the left to senda few more cavalry over to theright.”
“ I would better go myself,”said Stuart, and with that heswung himself into the saddleand rode off at a rapid gallop,singing as loud as he could,‘Jine the cavalry.’”
General Toombs, our Georgia fire-eater, was given to criti-cising pretty severely all theofficers of the regular armywho had joined their fortuneswith those of the Confeder-acy. He was hot-blooded andimpatient, and chafed at thedelays of the commanders intheir preparations for battle.His general idea was that thetroops went out to fight, andhe thought they should be
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ROUTES: From Harper’s Ferry (July 27th, ’6i) to Muddy Branch,Md., Sept. 19th, 1861; near Fred-erick, Md. , winter quarters, Dec.2d, ’61-Feb. 27th, ’62; Winchester,Mar. 12th, ’62; Manassas andRappahannock Station, Apr.,’62; Falmouth, Va. , May 25th,’62; Manassas , May 28th, ’62;Front Royal, June 4th,’62; Ma-nassas , July 4th,’62; Cedar Moun-tain, Aug. 9th, ’62 ; ThoroughfareGap, Aug. 28th, ’62; SecondBullRun, Aug. 30th, ’62; Antietam,Sept. 17th, ’62; RappahannockStation, Nov., ’62; Fredericks-burg , Dec. 13th, ’62 ; Belle Plain,winter quarters till Apr. 27th, ’63 ;Chancellorsville, May 3d, ’63;Gettysburg , July ist-sth, ’63 ; Will-iamsport, Md. , July 14th, ’63:Rappahannock Station, Aug. 2d,'63 ; Culpeper, Sept. 16th, ’63;Thoroughfare Gap, Oct. 23d, ’63 ;Culpeper, winter quarters, Jan.-May, ’64; Wilderness, May 5th,’64 ; Spotsylvania, May 8th, '64 ;Jericho Ford, May 23d, ’64; ColdHarbor, June ist, '64; BethesdaChurch, June 5th,’64 J Petersburg,June 16th, ’64; Home by boatfrom City Point, June 25th, 1864.
MARCHES OF THE WEBSTERREGIMENT, 12THMASS. VOLS.,
July, 1861, to June, 1864.