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Title: Wearing of the gray; being personal portraits, scenes and adventures of the war
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat & Co. Baltimore, J.S. Morrow, (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ave exterior, the reserved demeanour, the oldfaded costume of the famous soldier, the penetrating student ofhuman nature will discern one of the immortals. In the manwho holds aloft his hand in jDrayer while his veteran battalionsmove by steadily to the charge, it will not be difficult to fancya reproduction of the stubborn Cromwell, sternest of Ironsides,going forth to conquer in the name of the Lord. In the manwho led his broken lines back to the conflict, and charged infront of them on many fields, there was all the dash and im-petus of Eupert. The inscrutable decree of Providence struckdown this great soldier in the prime of life and the bloom of hisfaculties. His career extended over but two years, and he livesonly in memory. But history cannot avoid her landmarks; thegreat proportions of Stonewall Jackson will sooner or later bedelineated. The writer of these lines can only say how great this manappeared to him, and wait with patience for the picture whichshall denote him truly.
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III.HAMPTON. There was a gentleman of South Carolina, of high position andample estate, who in 1861 ca*me to take part in the war inVirginia, at the head of a Legion of six hundred infantry.This body of men, it was said, he had equipped from his ownpurse; as he had sent to England and purchased the artillerywith which he was going to fight. The Legion was composed of brave stuff, and officered byhard-fighting gentlemen—the flower indeed of the great SouthCarolina race; a good stock. It first took the field in earnest atthe first battle of Manassas—as an independent organization,belonging neither to Beauregards u Army of the Potomac norto Johnstons Army of the Shenandoah. But there it was, asthough dropped from the clouds, on the morning of that fierytwenty-first of July, 1861, amid the corn-fields of Manassas.It made its mark without loss of time—stretching out to Vir-ginia that firm, brave hand of South Carolina. At ten oclockin the morning, on this eventful day, the battle see

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