Personal Recollections of the War a Record of Service With the Ninety Third New
Personal Recollections of the War a Record of Service With the Ninety Third New
Robert Stoddart Robertson
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John Sedgwick, command- ing the 6th corps, at his headquarters in Warrenton, on the 26th of August. His tents were pitched under the trees in the spacious lawn in front of ex-Gov. Smith's ( " Extra Billy Smith " ) residence, wliere tables were spread laden with delicacies, sub- stantial and spiritual, and after the formalities of speech-making were ended, full justice was done to the substantial repast. Here was invented, and conspicuously tlisplayed in a barrel, a nectar which was hereafter to... be immortalized in the memory of the day, as '• Sedgwick punch, " whose seductive and insinuat- ing qualities were soon experienced, not soon shaken off, and long remembered. B\- those who yielded to its seductions. Those who ordered carriages for their return, were kindl\- fur- nished with ambulances instead. A few days later I was sent to \\'asliington in charge of some thirt\-one prisoners of war, among whom were Capt. T. C. S. Hun- ter, 30th Virginia infantr\-, Capt. John Tayloe and Lieut.
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