While they were amusing us here on the Rappahannock with their cannon, Jackson with the best of the army crossed the river higher up, passed through Thoroughfare Gap, marching two or three days before a soul of ours knew it, and then struck our great camp at Bristoe Station." "Shepard, you must be sunstruck!" "My mind was never clearer.

What I saw at close range General Pope himself saw at long range.

He and his staff and a detachment came near enough to see the looting and burning of all our stores--I don't suppose so many were ever gathered together before.

But I was right there.

You ought to have seen the sight, Colonel, when those ragged rebels who had been living on green corn burst into our camp.