Lee's corps, Stonewall Jackson's division--I refer you to the histories for the marches and tramps made by these commanders the first year of the war.

Well, we followed them.
CHEAT MOUNTAIN One evening about 4 o'clock, the drummers of the regiment began to beat their drums as hard as they could stave, and I saw men running in every direction, and the camp soon became one scene of hurry and excitement.
I asked some one what all this hubbub meant.

He looked at me with utter astonishment.

I saw soldiers running to their tents and grabbing their guns and cartridge-boxes and hurry out again, the drums still rolling and rattling.

I asked several other fellows what in the dickens did all this mean?
Finally one fellow, who seemed scared almost out of his wits, answered between a wail and a shriek, "Why, sir, they are beating the long roll." Says I, "What is the long roll for ?" "The long roll, man, the long roll! Get your gun; they are beating the long roll!" This was all the information that I could get.