[The Scouts of Stonewall by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Scouts of Stonewall CHAPTER V 10/38
A train took the sick to Staunton, and in one of the coaches went Mrs.Jackson to her father's home.
Town and camp were filled with talk of march and battle, and the younger rejoiced.
They felt that a month of waiting had made them rusty. Amid all the bustle Jackson found time to attend religious services, and also ordered every wagon that reached the camp with supplies to be searched.
If liquor were found it was thrown at once upon the ground. The soldiers, even the recruits, knew that they were to follow a God-fearing man.
Oliver Cromwell had come back to earth.
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