The Long Roll

To name the historians, biographers, memoir and narrative writers, diarists, and contributors of but a vivid page or two to the magazines of Historical Societies, to whom the writer of a story dealing with this period is indebted, would be to place below a very long list. In lieu of doing so, the author of this book will say here that many incidents which she has used were actual happenings, recorded by men and women writing of that through which they lived. She has changed the manner but not the substance, and she has used them because they were "true stories" and she wished that breath of life within the book. To all recorders of these things that verily happened, she here acknowledges her indebtedness and gives her thanks. CONTENTS I. The Botetourt Resolutions 1 II. The Hilltop 7 III. Three Oaks 19 IV. Greenwood 28 V. Thunder Run 45 VI. By Ashby's Gap 60 VII. The Dogs of War 72 VIII. A Christening 83 IX. Winchester 100 X. Lieutenant McNeil 112 XI. " As Joseph was a-Walking " 121 XII. " The Bath and Romney Trip " 135 XIII. Fool Tom Jackson 150 XIV. The Iron-clads 172 XV. Kernstown 193 XVI. Rude's Hill 207 XVII. Cleave and Judith 217 XVIII. McDowell 229 XIX. The Flowering Wood 247 XX. Front Royal 263 XXI. Steven Dagg 277 XXII. The Valley Pike 296 XXIII. Mother and Son 312 XXIV. The Foot Cavalry 331 XXV. Ashby 343 XXVI. The Bridge at Port Republic 354 XXVII. Judith and Stafford 371 XXVIII. The Longest Way Round 382 XXIX. The Nine-Mile Road 399 XXX. At the President's 412 XXXI. The First of the Seven Days 434 XXXII. Gaines's Mill 446 XXXIII. The Heel of Achilles 465 XXXIV. The Railroad Gun 481 XXXV. White Oak Swamp 498 XXXVI. Malvern Hill 516 XXXVII. A Woman 530 XXXVIII. Cedar Run 545 XXXIX. The Field of Manassas 557 XL. A Gunner of Pelham's 572 XLI. The Tollgate 580 XLII. Special Orders, No. 191 589 XLIII. Sharpsburg 602 XLIV. By the Opequon 616 XLV. The Lone Tree Hill 629 XLVI. Fredericksburg 639 XLVII. The Wilderness 655 XLVIII. The River 670 ILLUSTRATIONS Stonewall Jackson Frontispiece The Lovers 220 The Battle 456 The Vedette 642 From drawings by N. C. Wyeth. THE LONG ROLL THE BOTETOURT RESOLUTIONS On this wintry day, cold and sunny, the small town breathed hard in its excitement. It…