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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.28 (search)
p, men! Hurry! Everything depends on being at the ford by daybreak. That word, Hurry! and, Steady, men! steady! were his favorite commands. (Brave and true soldier he was; he ought to have been a general.) It looked then as if we were going back to Maryland. About that time, Leonard Taylor, of Company C, said, Boys, we are going to catch thunder today, for I have been dreaming that we were in the hardest battle yet. His dream came too true, for before sunset on that day, the 17th of September, our regiment, the Thirty-second Virginia, had lost in killed and wounded forty-five per cent. (The poor boy was afterwards killed at Second Cold Harbor.) After a hard march we reached the ford (Boteler's, just below Shepherdstown) at daybreak and crossed the Potomac, and marched up the river opposite Shepherdstown, halted, and two men from each company detailed to fill our canteens. At that time General Jackson rode up and directed General McLaws to strike McClellan about Dunkards