10/36 I wish we had his numbers." "More men are coming for us. We'll have Ewell's corps soon, and General Jackson himself is worth ten thousand men." "That's so, Harry, but ten thousand men are far too few. McDowell's whole corps is available, and with it the Yankees can now turn more than seventy thousand men into the valley." "And they can fight, too, as we saw at Kernstown," said St.Clair. "Yesterday about dusk I went out in some bushes after firewood, and I saw a man kneeling. It struck me as curious, and I went up closer. |