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B. Stuart, who demonstrated on this occasion hisability to accomplish what it would seem impossible for one man to do. With a few skeleton regiments supplied with numerous flags which heposted to show over the crests of the ridges in our rear, as if therewere men in proportion, he himself took command of a line ofsharpshooters in our front. This skirmish-line was composed ofstragglers he had gathered up, and whom he had transformed from a lot ofshirkers into a band of heroes. With black plume f...loating, cheering andsinging, back and forth along the line he swept. The Federals confronting us in the three blue lines could not have beenless than 8, 000 men, who, with their powerful artillery, should haveutterly overwhelmed the scant numbers handled by Stuart. As the bluelines would start forward, calling to our artillery to pour in theshells again, he would urge on his sharpshooters to meet them half-way. The failure of a strong force of Federals to advance farther isexplained, no doubt, by the fact that two of their army corps and onedivision had suffered terribly a short time before near the same ground.
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