In the B & O Winter command simulation, Brigadier General William W. Loring has not personally been sighted on the field. Historically, the early stages of what would become the "Loring-Jackson" incident were already taking place during the first week of January 1862. By the end of the Bath-Romney Campaign, Jackson outlined several charges and specifications against Loring. One of them concerned a statement made by Loring near Unger's Store, after receiving orders on January 3rd. In his charges as recorded in the official records, Jackson wrote:
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CHARGE II. Conduct subversive of good order and
military discipline. Specification 1. In this, that when, on the 3d of January,
1862, a staff officer delivered a message from Maj. Gen. T. J. Jackson to Brig.
Gen. W. W. Loring, near Ungers Store, Va., he did state in the hearing of said
staff officer, “By God, sir, this is the damnedest outrage ever perpetrated in
the annals of history, keeping my men out here in the cold without food,”~ or
words to that effect.
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