Perhaps we were both somewhat to blame in that affair.

I am quite willing to allow I was, for one, but I think we might well put it aside now." Jackson hesitated, and then took the hand Vincent held out to him.
"That's right, young fellows," one of the other officers said.

"Now that every Southern gentleman is fighting and giving his life, if need be, for his country, no one has a right to have private quarrels of his own.
Life is short enough as it is, certainly too short to indulge in private animosities.

A few weeks ago we were fighting side by side, and facing death together; to-day we are prisoners; a week hence we may be exchanged, and soon take our places in the ranks again.

It's the duty of all Southerners to stand shoulder to shoulder, and there ought to be no such thing as ill-feeling among ourselves." Vincent was not previously aware that Jackson had obtained a commission.
He now learned that he had been chosen by his comrades to fill a vacancy caused by the death of an officer in a skirmish just before Pope fell back from the Rappahannock, and that he had been made prisoner a few days afterward in a charge against a greatly superior body of Federal cavalry.
The great majority of the officers on both sides were at the commencement of the war chosen by their comrades, the elections at first taking place once a year.