[The Star of Gettysburg by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Star of Gettysburg CHAPTER XI 27/53
"I mean to take this man Milroy with my own hands.
I remember that he gave us trouble in Jackson's time.
He's been licked once.
What right has he to come back into the Valley ?" "He's there," said Harry, "and they say that he's riding it hard with ironshod hoofs." "He won't be doing it by the time we see you again," said St.Clair confidently as they rode away. Harry did not see them again for several days, but when Ewell's division rejoined the main army, all that St.Clair predicted had come to pass. St.Clair himself, with his left arm in a sling, where it was to remain for a week, gave him a brief and graphic account of it. "All the soldiers in the army that he had once led knew how Old Jack loved that town," he said, "and they were on fire to drive the Yankees away from it once more.
We marched fast.
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