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Jackson and LongstrcetbiM:in1»Ib(a!wiswtv01dlclIv1.VtilillVPossibly no two corps of either unity made their entrance on Hie field more differently than those of Jackson and Lougstreet. A lienten-4iiir artillery who was at one time tis L -mgs! reet’s corps says: 4,You might be marching along, not dreaming that you were in five miles of a corporat\s guard of the enemy, and the first thing that yon knew Longsfreet would gallop past, vj get in f he shade of a tree and pull j out a pocket map. He would look at this for about five minute*, and turn to an officer and tell him to deploy his men to the right, or left, as tire ease might be. If you happened to be one of those deployed men you wanted lo look out; the probabilities were that you would be in—m less than ten minutes.— And ii you were in the in bin try, ~vyou would want to shoot a long .,]rime before you got the order.— J'j,LongsLreefs men went into action p.like a dross parade; they didn't waste any ammunition; not. a shot did they fire until they got close up. They left the long rangesboot-ing for the artillery.But Jackson’s men! They used ro remind me of it parcel of boys chasing a rabbit; they would commence to shoot and yell as soon as a bluceoat got in sight: and they generally kept it up until they could teil the color of their eyes.—They would string themselves out over thirty acres, yelling like fury.and all of a sudden they would get into some sort of form and lire a volley or two, and then charge again in that s'trungont fashion.—A blind uiau cfinld tell when Jack* surds men were in two miles of him if lliey were lighting. And that’s the way our men, and the others, found out at first Cold Harbor that Jackson wnvn’t where aguod many thought he was.”inHigitnjninwbidttrrttn(Uclt;V(illw(i IaiinII
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Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1840
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