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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 3: in Mexico. (search)
ldier, then is he entitled to the distinction which their possession confers. I have been ably seconded in all the operations of the battery by him; and upon this occasion, when circumstances placed him in command fer a short time of an independent section, he proved himself eminently worthy of it. It is a singular coincidence, that this report of Captain Magruder was addressed immediately to one who has since had disastrous occasion to verify its correctness. It was received by Captain Joe Hooker, then acting as adjutant to General Pillow, afterwards a Major-General in the Federal army, and Commander at Chancellorsville. For his conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, Jackson received the brevet rank of Major. To this he had risen, purely by the force of his merit, within seven months, from the insignificant position of brevet second lieutenant. No other officer in the whole army in Mexico was promoted so often for meritorious conduct, or made so great a stride in rank. If
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 17: the campaign in Maryland. (search)
and smoke of a terrific cannonade, which burst from the whole Federal line. The plan of McClellan's battle was, to advance his right first, under the lead of Generals Hooker and Mansfield, who had already made a lodgement west of the Antietam, to overpower the Confederate left, and then to sweep down the stream, taking the remain General Lee's line in reverse, and forcing it simultaneously by a front attack. To effect the first part of this design, he hurled against the left the corps of Hooker, Mansfield, and Sumner, containing, by his own statement, forty-four thousand combatants, and supported by five or six batteries of rifled artillery from his reses, almost inexpressibly glorious. The commendation of Jackson is best written by his adversary, when he says, in his Report, One division of Sumner's, and all of Hooker's corps, on the right, had, after fighting most valiantly for several hours, been overpowered by numbers, driven back in great disorder, and much scattered. Thos
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 18: Fredericksburg. (search)
e grand army was now arranged into three great corps, under Sumner, Hooker, and Franklin, which made an aggregate of one hundred and twenty-fison so successfully held against the double numbers of Franklin and Hooker in the coming battle, was no stronger than that which he wrested fr the wing of Franklin, supported by a part of the grand division of Hooker, drawn out in three vast lines of battle, which he estimated at fifommand, and succeeded by his insubordinate and boastful Lieutenant, Hooker. His army was quietly withdrawn a few miles from the river, and caburg, on the 13th, a feint, and instead of allowing a large part of Hooker's grand division to hang as a useless reserve about the Stafford he, throughout the winter; and was just completed when the advance of Hooker, in the following spring, summoned him to that crowning exploit, ofo be one which might well have made the heart stand still with awe. Hooker was again recruiting his monstrous army to its former numbers, and
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 19: Chancellorsville. (search)
ich indicated a passage of the Rappahannock by Hooker west of Fredericksburg, He had now restored the consumed in going to the Wilderness, to seek Hooker. Sedgwick's was also the smaller force; but s it was embosomed also. By this arrangement, Hooker's whole circuit of defences was masked in the roximity to any other which they might adopt. Hooker, then, must be at once fought and beaten, or ttend their efforts to contain the vast army of Hooker until the hour for the critical attack should circumstances. It was very properly a part of Hooker's programme, after gaining his strong position which was embraced within the western wing of Hooker's defences, and occupied by the corps of Sigeln, he drove before him the whole right wing of Hooker for three hours. This purpose of General Jackspation of his line of retreat would force upon Hooker; while General Lee thundered upon his other sit Banks's Ford,--a point between that town and Hooker's position,which, by the aid of his artillery [45 more...]
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 20: death and burial. (search)
when he was once possessed of the posture of affairs, his decision was as swift as it was correct. The plan of attacking Hooker from the west was conceived and matured on the evening of Friday, almost in a moment. At that time he met General Stuartthe position of the Federal batteries which Stuart was then engaging; and, at a glance, divined thence the disposition of Hooker's forces; he learned the absence of the hostile cavalry; and the friendly screen of forests which surrounded Chancellors it was their steadfast heroism which had earned it at First Manassa's. Some one asked him of the plan of campaign which Hooker had just attempted to execute. He said: It was, in the main, a good conception, sir; an excellent plan. But he should nbed and full of dreams. He several times inquired anxiously about the issue of the battles. On Tuesday he was told that Hooker was entrenched north of Chancellorsville; when he said: That is bad; very bad. Falling asleep afterwards, he aroused him