Jack Sterry, the Jessie Scout - An Incident of the Second Battle of Manassas, on Which Turned the Course of the Campaign and the Fate of the Southern Army #254970

The guide, well mounted and wearing the uni form of a Confederate cavalryman, sat at the forks of the road near the little village of White Plains, in Fauquier County, Virginia. The road which General Hood was taking leads to Thoroughfare Gap in Bull Run Moun tains, and is the only practicable approach to the field of Manassas where Stonewall Jackson was then struggling with the army of General Pope.