http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/cedar-mountain.html?tab=facts
This was a hard-fought slugging match between Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Nathaniel P. Banks.
After two and a half hours, with the Confederate left flank on the verge of collapse, Jackson rode into the center of the storm waving his sword with the scabbard rusted to it from lack of use. Ignoring incoming fire from three sides, Jackson brandished his "sword" and a battle flag to rally the wavering Confederates. One witness wrote that "the escape of Jackson from death was miraculous. He was in the thickest of the combat." The famed leader arrested the panic and restored order. Jackson later referred to the battle as the “most successful of [his] exploits.”
Jim Martin