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Jackson anti Lonjrstrcct.Possibly no two corps of cither army made their entrance on the field more differently than those of Jackson ami Longstreet. A lieutenant or artillery who was atone time In 1/Migstreefs Corps says: ‘-You might be marching along, not dreaming that yon were in five miles of a corporal\s guard of the enemy, and the first thing that yon knew Ijongstreet would gallop past, get in the shade of a tree and pull out a pocket map. lie would look at this tor about five minutes, and turn ro an ofiicer and tell him to deploy his men to the right, or left, as the ease might he. If you happened to be one of those deployed men yon wanrod 10 look out; the probabilities were that you would be in—in less Ilian ten minutes.— And il yon were in the infantry, you would want to shoot a long rime before you got the order.— Longslreet’s men went into action like a dress 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 tlitt artillery.But Jackson’s men! They used to remind me of a parcel of boys chasing a rabbit; they would commence to shoot and yell as soon as a bluecoat 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 fire a volley or two, and then charge again in that struugout fashion.— A blind man could tell when Jackson’s men were in two miles of him if they were lighting. And that’s the way our men, and the others, foil ml out at first Cold Harbor that Jackson wavn’t where agoodniany thought he was.”
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Richmond Daily Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia, US
Tue, Jan 10, 1865
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