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answer. Any communication which you may have to make previous to the 1st of June, please direct to this place. I am, Colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, T. J. Jackson. To Colonel Francis Smith, Supt. Va. M. Institute, Lexington, Rockbrige County, Virginia. A true copy from the original. Francis H. Smith, Supt. V. M. I. Torrance, Mississippi, February 19, 1873. My Dear General — I will now endeavor to comply with your request (contained in your favor of the 12th instant), to give you the facts relating to the wounding of General T. J. Jackson. As the details of the battle are familiar to you, I will begin with General Jackson's movements after the battle was over and all seemed quiet — the enemy having disappeared from our immediate front, and all firing having consequently ceased. General Jackson took advantage of this lull in the storm to relieve Rodes' troops, who had been fighting, steadily advancing and making repeated charges from the time the
March, 1852 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
ek in regard to General Jackson. For this purpose I send you herewith a certified copy of General Jackson's letter of acceptance of the Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, dated April 22d, 1851. General Jackson reported for duty in July, 1851, and entered upon his professorial duties on the 1st of September, 1851. His resignation as Lieutenant and Brevet-Major of Artillery in the United States army took effect March, 1852 [February 29th]. I do not think he ever went South during his connection with this Institution, except at the time of his marriage to Miss Morrison, July 15th, 1857.--Dabney's Life of Jackson. and then did not go beyond Charlotte, North Carolina. His professorship was held by him without any interruption until the commencement of the war in April, 1861. Then he was furloughed by the Board of Visitors as long as his services might be required in the army, with the understanding,
July 1st (search for this): chapter 6.42
ly to fill such a professorship, gratified me exceedingly. I hope to be able to meet the Board on the 25th of June next, but fear that circumstances over which I have no control will prevent my doing so before that time. For your kindness in endeavoring to procure me a leave of absence for six months, as well as for the interest you have otherwise manifested in my behalf, I feel under strong and lasting obligations. Should I desire a furlough of more than one month, commencing on the 1st July next, it would be for the purpose of visiting Europe. I regret that recent illness has prevented my giving you an earlier answer. Any communication which you may have to make previous to the 1st of June, please direct to this place. I am, Colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, T. J. Jackson. To Colonel Francis Smith, Supt. Va. M. Institute, Lexington, Rockbrige County, Virginia. A true copy from the original. Francis H. Smith, Supt. V. M. I. Torrance, Mississip
March 5th, 1873 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
unt. In givingthis it has been thought proper to make some allusion to the story in regard to astrology, as it has gone the rounds of the papers, and hence the letter of General Francis H. Smith is given with that of General Jackson accepting the professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. Those letters, and one from Captain R. E. Wilbourn, who was chief signal-officer for Jackson's corps, and was by his side when he was wounded, are as follows: Virginia military Institute, March 5, 1873. General J. A. Early, Lynchburg, Va.: Dear General — I have duly received your valued favor of the 24th ultimo. It gives me great pleasure to supply you with the information you seek in regard to General Jackson. For this purpose I send you herewith a certified copy of General Jackson's letter of acceptance of the Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, dated April 22d, 1851. General Jackson reported for dut
May, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
cience. General Revere then proceeds: Before we parted at Pittsburg, a day or two after this conversation, I had given Jackson the necessary data for calculating a horoscope; and in a few months I received from him a letter, which I preserved, inclosing a scheme of my nativity. According to the scheme of nativity furnished by Jackson, it appeared that his and Revere's destinies seemed to run in parallel lines, and they were to be exposed to a common danger during the first days of May, 1863, and it is stated that Jackson said in his letter: It is clear to me that we shall both be exposed to a common danger at the time indicated. This story is followed by another in reference to the battle of Chancellorsville in these words: At the battle above named, I was an involuntary witness of an event which had an important bearing on the issue of the war, and which has been the subject of prolonged controversy. I refer to the death of Stonewall Jackson. The circumstances under
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
is occurrence, a Richmond paper was seen by the writer, detailing the circumstances of the death of Stonewall Jackson, and containing the statement about the person on horseback, substantially as it is given in the extract from a Richmond paper of 1865, referred to in the letter of Captain Wilbourn, given hereafter. This convinced General Revere, as he says, that the wounded man seen by him was Stonewall Jackson, and he concludes the story thus: Jackson's death happened in strange coincideve a somewhat confused idea of it ; and this furnishes a conclusive reason for not tampering with the very distinct and intelligible narrative of the Captain. To make that complete, some extracts from an account published in a Richmond paper in 1865 are embodied in the letter of Captain Wilbourn, so distinguished from what he now writes as not to be mistaken for any part of that. These extracts are endorsed by him as substantially correct, though couched in language somewhat changed from his
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was impossible for the Lieutenant Jackson of whom General Revere speaks to have been Stonewall Jackson, as the latter had located at the Institute in the summer of 1851, and did not make a trip South in 1852. In 1852 General Jackson had severed his connection with the United States army, though it appears from Cullum's biographicn to take effect to be postponed for some months after he was relieved from duty. The same register shows that General Jackson was a professor at the Institute in 1851, and Dabney's life of him shows that he was admitted a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Virginia, on the 22d of November, 1851, he having been bapti1851, he having been baptised as a professing Christian two or three years before at Fort Hamilton, New York. There was a Lieutenant Thomas K. Jackson who graduated two years after General Jackson, and who was in the United States army in 1852, where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he joined the Confederate army. It is possible that
June 25th (search for this): chapter 6.42
t intimate friends. I remain very truly, Francis H. Smith. Fort Meade, Florida, April 22, 1851. Colonel — Your letter of the 28th ultimo, informing me that I have been elected Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, has been received. The high honor conferred by the Board of Visitors in selecting me unanimously to fill such a professorship, gratified me exceedingly. I hope to be able to meet the Board on the 25th of June next, but fear that circumstances over which I have no control will prevent my doing so before that time. For your kindness in endeavoring to procure me a leave of absence for six months, as well as for the interest you have otherwise manifested in my behalf, I feel under strong and lasting obligations. Should I desire a furlough of more than one month, commencing on the 1st July next, it would be for the purpose of visiting Europe. I regret that recent illness has prevented my giv
1852 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
Mexico, in the latter part of February, 1852, he says: The spring of 1852 was now at hand, and the time propitious for a change to a more nortgy was had on the steamer on the trip up the Mississippi and Ohio in 1852, the fulfillment of the remarkable horoscopic prediction was somethi with whom he traveled on the steamer up the Mississippi and Ohio in 1852 was not the same person with the world-renowned commander of the Secor his gallant conduct in Mexico, and if he had been in that army in 1852 he would have borne the title of major and would have worn the insighe Institute in the summer of 1851, and did not make a trip South in 1852. In 1852 General Jackson had severed his connection with the United1852 General Jackson had severed his connection with the United States army, though it appears from Cullum's biographical register of officers and graduates of West Point that his resignation did not take ears after General Jackson, and who was in the United States army in 1852, where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he joined
July 15th, 1857 AD (search for this): chapter 6.42
rimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, dated April 22d, 1851. General Jackson reported for duty in July, 1851, and entered upon his professorial duties on the 1st of September, 1851. His resignation as Lieutenant and Brevet-Major of Artillery in the United States army took effect March, 1852 [February 29th]. I do not think he ever went South during his connection with this Institution, except at the time of his marriage to Miss Morrison, July 15th, 1857.--Dabney's Life of Jackson. and then did not go beyond Charlotte, North Carolina. His professorship was held by him without any interruption until the commencement of the war in April, 1861. Then he was furloughed by the Board of Visitors as long as his services might be required in the army, with the understanding, at his own request, that he would resume his duties at the Institute at the close of hostilities. His summer vacations were usually spent in visiting his friends in W
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