johnny reb and billy yank by alexander hunter

Author:alexander hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub

I have heard scores of soldiers around their camp-fires tell of their last view of Jackson, of his stern, set mouth; his eyes, generally so calm and cold, now blazing with the light of victory. He issued his orders to his aides, short and sharp like pistol shots. A whole company of cavalry was attached to his staff as orderlies and he kept them all on the jump. One of them, Martin, told me that as he followed him in full tilt across a broom-sedge field he suddenly reined up before a group of three soldiers who were lying down, but busy loading and firing. Jackson asked them why they were not with their comrades in front. One raised himself up and said: "General, we can't, we are all three wounded." And he stuck his leg in the air, covered with blood. "Then," said Martin, "he told me to go back and get assistance, and he darted off and I never saw him again.

It was like madness for Jackson to go ahead of his picket line that night. He intended attacking Hooker at the earliest dawn, and was anxious to place A. P. Hill, who was in reserve, in front, and his own troops, mistaking him in the darkness, fired on him and that volley set the whole Yankee artillery to firing; and he received his death wound. It was one of the North Carolina regiments that fired the fatal volley.

Lieutenant-Colonel Oscar Heinrich, Chief Engineer of the Army, says: "The enemy soon opened with shot, shell, canister, grape and shrapnel. General Fender, who occupied a part of the front, became actively engaged. General Lane got scared, fired into our own men, and achieved the unenviable reputation of wounding severely Lieutenant-General Jackson and Major-General A. P. Hill. If Jackson had lived, what would have been the result!"

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