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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fighting in North Carolina. (search)
ach Orchard. Two days after, at the battle of Malvern Hill, he stooped down to fasten his shoe, and while in that position his head was blown off by a 103,000 pound shell. This was the unkindest cut of all; but the old veteran merely raised his martial form erect, and said: "My bleeding country, I cheerfully make the sacrifice. Old head, farewell!" These are but a few of the wounds the old man has received — according to the papers. Even as I write, the report comes that this modern Briareus lost another arm at Antietam. Stonewall Jackson, in personal appearance, is most unlovely — and it is said that he — like the Ashantees — files his teeth to a sharp point every other morning. He stands eleven feet five inches (or five feet eleven inches, I am not certain which) in his boots — when he has got any. His hair is black, and was furnished to order by Bachelor, of New York. In religion he is at times a devout Catholic — at least he followed closely in the footstep