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Excerpt from Reminiscences of One Who Suffered in the Lost Cause
Evidently the enemy was fearful of an ambush, for we waited and waited but no attack was made. We were then ordered to return to our mounts. After mounting and forming in company alignment, a hollow square was formed into which Col. Porter rode. This was my first look at the man and soldier whom we were to follow unto death, if need be. He so much more than filled my expecta tions of him that I cannot express my sense of admiration, for he was certainly a knight, a cavalier, and a soldier. I have always regretted very much my brief association with him, for he was certainly justly called the Stonewall Jack son of North Missouri. Every eye was fixed on him when he spoke and said, My fellow Missourians! We have awaited the attack of the enemy; for some reason they have thought best not to do so; I need not say to you that in an event of a meeting with them, I shall depend upon you as loyal Missourians and Southerners to perform your whole duty. After these long years have passed, my memory fails me and I cannot repeat his words which were so expressive of the wrongs we had suffered, and were still suffering, for they stirred the heart and soul, until many eyes were suffused in tears.
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