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 the interior of the cars, but likewise their roofs, and, in fact, seemed to cover them all over like clusters of bees. The train paused but a minute or two at the station. As it "slowed up" I recognized Jackson, who was seated in a postal car next to the tender, and who, as I approached him, said in his quick, sententious way:

"Glad to see you, jump in!" at the same time extending his hand to assist me in clambering up at the side door.

"Got a pencil?" he asked.

"Yes," I replied.

"Paper?"

"Yes."

"Then, sit down please," he said, "and write as I shall dictate to you."

From a little, old, brown-covered note book now lying before me I copy the following memoranda as I then wrote them in it at Jackson's dictation. I give them here to illustrate the method by which his army was transferred from the Valley to co-operate with the forces of General Lee in the famous "seven days' battle around Richmond" in which McClellan was so signally defeated.

EXTRACTS FROM NOTEBOOK.

June 19, 1862—Memoranda—On reaching Gordonsville telegraph to Major Dabney at Charlottesville (care of Mr. Hoge, or in his absence, of General Ewell) the following dispatches, viz:

1. Telegraph General Robinson to send Second Regiment Cavalry, Colonel Mumford, to vicinity of Port Republic to await orders and to reply when it will be there.

2. Telegraph Colonel Crutchfield to forward a battery of artillery to General Lawton.

3. Organize at once the corps of signal men under Vermillion, selecting six to ten additional men. Have their flags made.