But Milroy was a slippery fellow.

He slid out in the night somehow with his men, and was five miles away before we knew he had gone.

But we followed hard, overtook him, captured four thousand men and twenty-three cannon and scattered the rest in every direction.

Wasn't that a thorough job ?" "Stonewall Jackson would never have let them escape through his cordon and get a start of five miles." "That's so, Harry, Old Jack would never have allowed it.

But then, Harry, we've got to remember that there's been only one Stonewall Jackson, and there's no more to come." "You're telling the whole truth, St.Clair, and if General Ewell did let 'em get away, he caught 'em again.