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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Beauregard. (search)
s aide-de-camp in waiting, to escort the wife and little son of General Stuart from the Court-House to the nearest station on the Orange railr and soon his Excellency, President Davis, appeared, riding between Stuart and Beauregard — the latter wearing his dress uniform with a ZouaveJ. E. B. Stuart, a little gentleman who used to call himself General Stuart, Jr., saw his father, he stretched out his arms and exclaimed, Papa! in a tone so enthusiastic that it attracted attention, and General Stuart said, This is my family, Mr. President, Whereupon Mr. Davis sto time on the outpost. It was at Camp Qui-Vive, the headquarters of Stuart, beyond Centreville, and in December, 1861. He came to dine and rio enjoy himself. Standing on the portico of the old house in which Stuart had established his quarters, or partaking of his dinner with munday in question was a very charming person, an intimate friend of General Stuart; and as she was then upon a visit to the neighbourhood of Centr
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Mosby. (search)
een Fredericksburg and Alexandria; and as General Stuart's activity and energy were just causes of al Stoughton, Mosby replied, It means that General Stuart's cavalry are in possession of the Court-Hjustice done him. He was respected by Jackson, Stuart, and Lee, and the world will not willingly bel with; he received a note for delivery to General Stuart, and on reaching the cavalry headquarters edly his unbounded energy and enterprise. General Stuart came finally to repose unlimited confidencrecalls an instance of this in June, 1863. General Stuart was then near Middleburg, watching the Uni, when the lithe figure of Mosby appeared, and Stuart uttered an exclamation of relief and satisfactwho enjoyed the respect and confidence of Lee, Stuart, and Jackson, was worthy of it. Mosby was regang a solitary man was seen beside the grave of Stuart, in Hollywood Cemetery, near Richmond. The ded with tears in his eyes, left the place. This lonely mourner at the grave of Stuart was Mosby.
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Pelham the gallant (search)
struggle was decided. The enemy was retiring, badly hurt, and General Stuart added in his dispatch: We are after him. His dead men and horselingered until after midnight on the morning of the 18th, when General Stuart telegraphed to Mr. Curry, of Alabama: The noble, the chiama, the land of his birth. The Major-General commanding, wrote Stuart, in a general order, approaches with reluctance the painful dut I anticipate my subject. Once associated with the command of Stuart, he secured the warm regard and unlimited confidence of that Generaection of the artillery was left, with unhestitating confidence, by Stuart to the young officer; and those who witnessed, during that arduousackson speak of him in terms of exaggerated compliment, and ask General Stuart if he had another Pelham, to give him to him. On that great dawas unfriendly, and never saw him angry but twice. Poor boy! said Stuart one day, he was angry with me once, and the speaker had known him l
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Farley the scout (search)
mentioned this affair afterwards in an interview with General Stuart, and spoke in warm terms of the courage which led Farlwho were going to the South-west; but chancing to meet General Stuart, that officer took violent possession of him, and thent Farley soon became greatly pleased. He had already seen Stuart at work, and that love of adventure and contempt of dangerswing and opportunity of display. It was in vain that General Stuart, estimating at their full value his capacity for commald. Thus permanently attached as volunteer aide to General Stuart, Farley thereafter took part in all the movements of tpeper county, on the 9th of June, 1863, he was sent by General Stuart to carry a message to Colonel Butler, of the 2d South s coming, so daring was he, and so much depended on by General Stuart. He scouted a great deal alone in the enemy's lines, etch will be the mention made of the brave partisan in General Stuart's report of the battle of Fleetwood. It is as follows
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., To Gettysburg and back again. (search)
tion of Fleetwood Hill, near Brandy. In fact, Stuart had been assailed there by the elite of the Fehe station to find the meaning of everything. Stuart had been quietly waiting there for his column, while Hooker followed up Lee, was very unlike Stuart. Strike across for the Blue Ridge, and cross ere, that not a picket watched the stream. Stuart's design was soon developed. We reached at nitroying the ammunition; but the ready brain of Stuart found an expedient. The boxes were quickly unr of hoofs, and cries of Halt! Halt! Halt! Stuart burst into laughter, and turning round, exclaithe Pennsylvanians call this edible. When General Stuart had emptied his coffee-cup — which always s nights had prostrated the strongest, and General Stuart and his staff moving without escort on the the cavalry were at Gettysburg. Vi. General Stuart arrived with his cavalry on the evening ofuietly walked on by, and nearly carried Major-General Stuart into the cavalry pickets of the enemy. [48 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., From the Rapidan to Frying-Pan in October, 1863. (search)
ill then streaming toward Madison Court-House, Stuart came on the exterior picket of the enemy-theirldier or kindlier gentleman. Ii. At dawn Stuart was again in the saddle, pressing forward upone Federal cavalry was attacked and driven; and Stuart was pushing on, when the presence of a Federale fields on Stone House Mountain as quickly as Stuart, moving parallel to his column, and suddenly t Near Brandy it encountered what seemed to be Stuart's entire cavalry. At various openings in the way before them, and crossing his whole column Stuart pushed on upon the track of the enemy toward one of the most curious of the war. Iii. Stuart had just passed Auburn, when General Gordon, c the Federal artillery. Who is that? said General Stuart, pointing to the figure, indistinct in the portion of the country. On the next morning, Stuart left Fitz Lee in front of Bull Run, to oppose had carried out his half of the programme, and Stuart hastened to do the rest. At the sound of Gene[54 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Major R--‘s little private scout. (search)
barrels revolve with admirable grace; his salute with the sabre is simply perfection; his air, as he listens to an order from his superior officer, says plainly, All I wish is to know what you want me to do, General — if it can be done it will be done. This air does not deceive. It is well known to the Major's friends that his motto is, Neck or nothing. At Mine Run, when General Meade confronted the Southern lines, the worthy said to me, A soldier's duty is to obey his orders; and if General Stuart told me to charge the Yankee army by myself, I would do it. He would be responsible. It will be seen from the above sketch of the gallant Major, that he is a thorough soldier. In fact he loves his profession, and is not satisfied with performing routine duty. He is fond of volunteering on forlorn hopes, and in desperate emergencieswhen he cannot get at the blue-coats for any length of time-he pines. This mood came to him in the fall of 1862. Quiet had reigned along the lines so
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., A dash at Aldie. (search)
ter him. And I went on to catch up with General Stuart, who had ridden on in advance. Two hun and pushing on at full gallop, I came up with Stuart on the high hill west of Aldie. All along theill, relieved against the sky, was the form of Stuart, with floating plume, drawn sword, and animateached the head of the column, going at a run, Stuart was there too. Then the cause of the halt was was no greater artillerist than this boy. Stuart was now upon the hill, where he had drawn up hclutch, moving steadily across to Middleburg. Stuart was out of the trap. At Middleburg, that che C. S. A., when the name of that soldier was Stuart, Jackson, Gordon, or Rodes. Fair hands covere The selection of that title for his camp by Stuart, will indicate little to the world at large. e South mourned him-dead thus at twenty-four. Stuart wept for him, and named his new quarters Camp to return it to some member of his family. Stuart took the watch and looked at it. I remembe[15 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Jackson's death-wound. (search)
into what is called the Brock Road, turned the head of his column northward, and rapidly advanced around General Hooker's right flank. A cavalry force under General Stuart had moved in front and on the flanks of the column, driving off scouting parties and other too inquisitive wayfarers; and on reaching the junction of the Orathe turnpike, looking more weird and sombre in the half light, came the melancholy notes of the whippoorwill. I think there must have been ten thousand, said General Stuart afterwards. Such was the scene amid which the events now about to be narrated took place. Jackson had advanced with some members of his staff, considerabdistant. Here he lay throughout the next day, Sunday, listening to the thunder of the artillery and the long roll of the musketry from Chancellorsville, where Stuart, who had succeeded him in command, was pressing General Hooker back toward the Rappahannock. His soul must have thrilled at that sound, long so familiar, but he
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Facetiae of the camp: souvenirs of a C. S. Officer. (search)
e page if they weary you-but perhaps you will laugh. They are trifles, it is true; but then life is half made up of trifles — is it not? General Fitz Lee, one day in the fall of 1863, sent a courier up from the Lower Rappahannock, to ask General Stuart why General Pleasanton of the U. S. Army had been sent to Georgia? --a dispatch by signal from corps headquarters having communicated that intelligence. Grand tableau when the affair was explained! General Stuart had signalled: Meade'General Stuart had signalled: Meade's Headquarters are at Wallack's, and Pleasanton's at Cumberland George's --names of persons residing near Culpeper Court-house. The signal flags had said: Meade's headquarters are at Wallack's, and Pleasanton's at Cumberland Georgia! Ii. In November, 1863, Lieutenant — was in an old deserted mansion near Culpeper Court-house, with some prisoners confined in the upper rooms; the enemy not being far distant. While waiting, a blaze shot up from a fire which some soldiers had kindled near