Pa., April 4, 1913.
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SHENANDOA
: By
HENRY TYRRELL
Founded on
BRONSON HOWARD'S
Great Play
A Stirring Story of
Military Adventure
and of a Strange
Wartime Wooing
Copyright, 1912, by G. P. Putnam's
Sons
SYNOPSIS
Beauregard is ready to tire on Fort Sum-
ter. Frank Haverill, General Haverill's
scapegrace son, is hiding In Charleston
Edward Thornton annoys Mrs Haverill
Lieutenant Kerchival West protects her
and wounds Thornton In a duel Fort
Sumter is fired upon.
Haverill unjustly suspects West. He
sends Frank a miniature of Mrs. Haverill
to help reform him. Frank enlists in the
Union army.
[Continued from last week.)
CHAPTER Iv.
The Virginians,
ENERAL JOE JOHNSTON—the
ranking Confederate officer.
but who had intrusted the im-
mediate command to Beaure-
gard on account of the latter's famili-
arity with the country—was able to
keep from his headquarters something
like a general outlook over the field
and received intelligence just as a
final attack was preparing that “a
Federal army” had come np and was
advancing upon his rear. This should
have been the Union reserves from
Centerville, but it was not. It was
General Kirby Smith of the Army of
the Shenandoah arriving with 1,700
fresh infantry. The whole southern
line now advanced to the charge. and
the combined attack upon the Federal
flank and front was decisive enough to
turn the tide of battle from uncertain-
ty to sudden panic. The lines of blue
* wavered and broke, fell back from the
plateau, across the Warrrenton pike
and on toward the Bull Run fords. The
repulse became a rout, the rout grew
into an appalling avalanche of defeat.
The Federal advance on the southern
side of Bull Run had seen a regiment
‘The Repulse Became a Rout, an Ava-
lanche of Defeat. i
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moving toward them, but were told it
was a New York regiment which had
been expected for support, and the ar-
tillerymen withheld their fire, Sudden-
ly there came a fearful explosion of
musketry, which in an instant changed
ithe scene into one of hideous carnage.
Dexth stricken men with dripping
wounds were clinging to caissons,
which frantic horses dragged pell mell
through the infantry ranks and over
the prostrate bodies of the fallen. A
caisson blew up and three horses gal-
loped off with the burning wreck, drag-
ging a fourth horse, which wag dead.
Cannoneers lay Hmp across their
guns, with rammers and sponges and
lanyards still in their hands. Whole
batteries were annihilated in a meo-
ment, and organization command was
wiped out. Those who could run,
walk, limp, or even crawl, waited no
longer, but dropped everything and got
away from there.
On his hill at Manassas, after the
final victorious charge, General Jack-
son had come nearer to the actual truth
of possibility than he or any other Con-
federate then knew when he cried out
exultantly:
“Give me 10,000 men and 1 will be in
Washington tonight!”
The dawn of Monday came, but the
sun did not shine. In the hot. sullen,
drizzling morning the defeated troops
poured into Washington over the Long
ridge.
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Some good citizens—but they were
in the majority—put out steaming
kettles filled with coffee or soup
the forlorn boys. Among these
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good Samaritans was Jeuny Buckthorn, Of 8 year. At the north the effent
surrounded by a staff of colored serv- Produced was exactly the contrary.
ants. Her father. severely wounded Wolle the sonth was planning the or-
and captured by the enemy. had been ganization of a new republic and even
recognized by his former comrade, Gen- PUttIng up the name of General Bean
eral Beauregard, and as a personal '®8ard as a candidate for the presi
courtesy had been exchanged for a dential succession In such a way as to
wounded Confederate officer and al-
the Confederate communications and
then sweeping down upon Richmond
from the mountains, while McClellan
marched up the peninsula between the
James and York rivers, and McDowell
advanced from Fredericksburg.
Early in March “Stonewall” Jackson
was back In Winchester with Banks
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Whole Batteries Were Annihilated.
lowed to proceed to Washington in an
ambulance, attended by Colonel Ha-
verill.
“Where is Heartsease?’ was the first
question Jenny asked her father after
having ascertained that that stern pa-
rent was not dead.
“Don’t ask me,” muttered the old
warrior. “This is no time for picnics
and dancing parties.”
One especially miserable looking ob-
ject drifted along about noon and stood
as if dazed at the sight of food and
drink and commiseration. His uniform
might have been blue or it might have
been gray—mud and smudge were the
prevailing hues. His shoes were heavy
brogans tied with twine. and his naked
and sore ankles showed that he was
without socks. An old slouch hat was
pulled over his face, and a tobacco bag
bung from a button of bis jacket. the
collar of which was turned up to the
chin, evidently to conceal the condition
of the shirt—or the lack of one.
“You poor fellow!" said Jenny. “Tell
me, were you in the cavalry?"
“Yes, Miss Buckthorn. Is it possible
you do not recognize we? I must apol-
ogize for my appearance, but" —
“Great heavens! Is it yourself,
Heartsease?' exclaimed the girl, with
a little shriek. “Why. you look like a
bummer."
“Possibly this may serve to identify
me." and he drew from the mysterious
Inver recesses a stained packet, which
proved to be a large silk handkerchief
enveloping a dainty lace one.
Heartsease received his captain's
commission at the dinner table that
same evening. After all, as the old
general said. he was a regular and had
General George B. McClellan.
fought Lefore he ran, and that was a
contrast to many of the pestiferons
ready mude shonider straps who had
betrayed the brave volunteers and
lost the tight for them, and who were
now standing about unabashed, brag-
ging in the barrooms.
Kerchival West, shortly after his ar-
rival at St. Louis, was assigned to
the army of southwestern Missouri.
where in a short time he saw hard
service in almost every line except
that of actual fighting. A large addi-
tion had been made to the regular
army and to fill vacancies in the new
regiments rapid promotions among the
officers already in service had occurred.
In a few months’ time West rose from
second lieutenant to the rank of cap-
tain of infantry—an advancement
which a year before could only have
been gained as a reward of perhaps
fifteen years of continuous service,
As weeks and months passed on it
was possible to find a certain encour-
agement in the fact that the defeat of
McDowell's army, while not utilized
by the Confederates to its full miii-
tary effect, nevertheless fiatiered them
into a feeling of strength and secu-
rity, resulting in comparative Inae-
tivity in the feld for the better part
and an augmented Federal force at his
heels on the north, and Shields with
another army reported at Strasburg to
the southward.
Here Bob Ellingham first made the
acquaintance of Colonel Ashby, com-
manding Jackson's cavalry—a won
drous cavalier from Fauquier county.
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Lieutenant General Scott.
Ineur for that officer the cordial dis
trust of Jefferson Invik forever after
ward, the Federal government and the
people of the porthern and western
states met to work with furlous en
PIEY to counternet the reverses suf
fered In the beginning. Congress au-
thorized the enlistment of half a mil
Hon of men for three vears, an in
crease of the navy and stupendons
loans with which to «tre,wthen the
sinews of war,
Llenteunnt Genernt Scott, now pas
seventy vears of age, hung up his an
reled sword and viekled the command
of the Federal armies to an younger nnd
more active officer, General George R.
MeClelian,
With two Federnl nrmles ready (0
move Inte Virginian that of McClellan
at Washington and that under General |
Banks opposite Leesburg-to say noth-/
ing of considerable bodies of troops
harassing the northern counties :hout
the headwaters of the Potomac, the
Confederate prospects for the spring of
1862 were decidedly threatening. To
protect this portion of the state and to
guard the lower Shenandoah valley
against General Banks, the Confeder-
ate government determined to send a
force to Winchester. This force, organ-
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They struck Shields near Woodstock. |
EDWIN ERLE SPARKS, Ph.D., L.L. D., PRESIDENT.
«he few setbacks Jackson encountered
in his campaign. and the furious im-
pulse of his rebound that followed im-
mediately after made it a costly vic
tory for his opponent. A frenzy seized
“Old Stonewall” and his men and
made them invinelble, irresistible. The
limitless resources of the now thor
some forty miles up the pike. and on
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on his way with 10000 men to join |
Fremont, wax instracted to report to |
bim as he followed Jackson ap the |
valley. Jackson stood at hay at Swift
Run gap In the Blue Ridge mountains. |
with the Shenandoah river in his front |
and his Hanks protected by the foor |
bills. Ewell. with a handy Confederate |
force, wax not far away. but on the |
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Federnl army at Fredericksburg.
Meanwhile Banks, with his large force,
was watching General Edward John-!
son at Harrisonburg. The Federal!
Ized under the official title of the “Army |
of the Monongahela,” was placed un-|
der the command of “Stonewall” Jack- |
son, now advanced to the rank of ma-
Jor general, :
This was great news to the Elling. |
hams, not only for the naive reason |
that it seemed to them like throwing an
impregnable guard around Belle Bos: |
quet and the whole valley. but also and |
especially because of Captain Robert |
Ellingh \m's part in the growing pres- |
tige of the “Stonewall” brigade. |
The valley of Virginia comprised |
within that section of the Appalachian |
plateau bounded on the east by the |
Blue Ridge and on the west by a range |
of the Alleghenies called there the!
North mountains, stretches from the
headwaters of the Shenandoah near
Staunton on the south to the Potomac
on the north. a distance of considerably
more than a hundred miles. At the
; upper end this valley is more than
| forty miles wide. while at Strasburg.
| fifty miles south of the Potomac, the
| extreme width is scarcely twenty-five.
A broad macadamized road. the fa-
mous Valley pike, traverses the entire '
region from north to south, with lateral
; roads extending to the mountain boun-
: daries on either side, those toward the
. Blue Ridge connecting through various
gaps with the raflroads of eastern Vir-
' ginia.
This beautiful and fertile region
called for protection for its own sake
as well as for that of its patriotic pop-
ulation (of which the Ellinghams were
; & fair sample), its numerous black
; slaves and the rich supplies which its
| lush meadow lunds and broad planta-
; tions furnished.
It was especially important from a
' southern military viewpoint that the
¢ valley should be held intact by a Con-
| federate army. No portion of the re-
i glon could be given up without serious
detriment to operations north of Rich-
mond.
i “If this valley is lost Virginia is
lost,” was Jackson's watchword. i
Early in January, 1862, Captain El-
lingham wrote to his sister in Rich-
i mond: “We have only conjecture as to
' ourdestination. General Jackson keeps
his secrets so well as to deceive not
only the enemy, but ourselves.” |
Without losing any time Jackson now
set out with fiercer energy than ever to
surprise the. Federal garrison under
General Kelly at Romney. The weath-
er was fearful, even for ordinary trav-
el, to say nothing of forced military
movements. Men and horses fell on
the icy roads, their guns going off all
along the line, the knees and muzzles
of the animals lacerated, the men limp-
ing along, leaving trails of blood on the
frozen snow. The march was compar-
able to Napoleon's passage of the Alps
and not alone in its bardships, but like-
wise in its results, for before the 1st of
February General Kelly bad evacuated
Romney, and for the moment there was
no Federal force left in the entire low-
er valley.
With the opening of spring four Fed-
eral armies under Fremont, Banks, Mc-
Dowell and McClellan respectively
were ready to close in upon Richmond.
Fremont and Banks in the north and
west expected to unite their forces nnd
drive Jackson up the valley, cutting
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Ashby Looked Like a Moor.
moved up west of the mountains, in |
front of Johnson, awniting the arrival
of Fremont from the north, |
It was now the end of April, and |
“Stonewall” Jackson started in to do |
the theoretically Impossible. Evading
Banks and Harrisonburg,’ he moved |
with incredible swiftness to Staunton,
Joined his force with Johnson's and de-
feated Milroy and Schenck at one fell
blow. This great advantage had to be
followed up. so Ewell marched over
into the valley from Gordonsville.
compelling Banks to fall buck to Stras- |
burg. Having disposed of the two |
Federal commanders, Jackson. with
Ewell, now hotfooted it to Front Royal,
where the north and south forks of
the Shenandoah river unite, at the
northern end of the Massanutton ridge.
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CHAPTER V.
Grand Old Jack,
HE stunning successes of Jack.
son at Front Royal and subse-
quently at Cross Keys and
Port Republic, on the Shenan-
doah, were achieved by a startling |
series of maneuvers, little understood |
by the world at the time. save that in |
a general way they meant that he
“held one commander at arm's length |
while he hammered the other.”
“I bave seen grand Old Jack rat
tled, for once” Captain Ellingham
wrote his sister from Front Royal.
“We were opposite Port Republic and
the general, with a part of his staff,
had crossed over the bridge into the
town when the enemy appeanred in
force, with the evident design of at-
tacking the town, destroying the bridge
over the Shenandoah and thus cutting
off our army and getting in our rear.
Jackson sent some hurried orders to
Taliaferro and Winder for the de-
fense of the bridge. but before these
could be executed the advance Federal
batteries had opened fire and their
cavalry, crossing the South river. had
swept into the town and taken posi
tion at the southern entrance to the
bridge.
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