Greensborough Patriot

October 23, 1862

Page 2

 

            JACKSON ONCE SURROUNDED—An army correspondent tells the following incident removing two ____ game cock, he said “Ladies this is the first time I was ever surrounded,”) and cut every button off his coat, and, they say, commenced on his pants, and at one time it was feared he would be in the uniform of a Georgia Colonel—minus all except a shirt collar and spurs.  For once he was badly scared.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]