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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations of General J. E. B. Stuart before Chancellorsville. (search)
my headquarters from the direction of Chancellorsville. Orders were immediately issued for General Jackson's corps to move towards Chancellorsville. After feeding our horses at Todd's tavern, we re of General Wright's lines. I will conclude this article with an incident connected with General Jackson. I was required to detail a lieutenant and detachment of men to report to him on the mornirles R. Palmore in command, and sending them forward, I walked up the road to get a look at General Jackson. Meeting with my college-mate, Major Alexander Pendleton, of the General's staff, he told rmation we had brought, that this was nothing but a reconnoissance in force, and he thought General Jackson inclined to the same opinion. The General was standing a little to the right of the road, , and without looking, pulled his horse to the left. The horse's head came in contact with General Jackson's right shoulder, causing him to right face very suddenly. Never taking his eyes from the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8.70 (search)
ward, to create, if possible, the impression that he was destined to reinforce Jackson. His command consisted of 1200 men, selected from the 1st, 4th and 9th Virginot extended as General Lee feared was the case, and that the way was clear for Jackson to follow in his footsteps. But now the question must be decided how he couldldest ardor, and now the hopes of all were centred in the immortal three--Lee, Jackson, Stuart, under whom the army of Northern Virginia felt itself invincible. Whoot our glorious leader been deprived of both his right arm and his left? When Jackson fell, when Stuart was no more, brave hearts still hoped, but 'twas hoping agaihands, because, as he said with quiet dignity, he understood that such was General Jackson's wish, and because Stuart's name was more widely and more favorably known, and would tend to restore the confidence of the troops shaken by the fall of Jackson. Military authorities will probably decide that Stuart, as next in rank to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stonewall Jackson in Lexington, Va. (search)
h pride in recounting his valorous deeds as does the Confederate foot-cavalryman who followed him on the long and wearisome march. We can point with just pride to the fact that he was a native Western Virginian--For oft when white-haired grandsires tell Of bloody struggles past and gone, The children at their knees shall hear How Jackson led his columns on. G. H. M. Cloverlick, W. Va., February 16, 1880. Lexington, Va., August 16, 1876. Ed. Lexington Gazette,--In the spring of 1858, T. J. Jackson, then a professor in the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Va.--now our Stonewall Jackson — was organizing a negro Sunday school in the town of Lexington. At that time such a school was regarded by our laws as an unlawful assembly. On Saturday evening of May 1st, 1858, I left my office, and on my way home met Major Jackson on the pavement in front of the court-house, in company with Colonel S. McD. Reid, the clerk of our courts, and William McLaughlin, Esq., now judge of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the army of Northern Virginia, or the boys in gray, as I saw them from Harper's Ferry in 1861 to Appomattox Court-house in 1865. (search)
however, a master hand took the reins--Major T. J. Jackson, of the Virginia Military Institute, haurprise, and a grief, to people who only knew Jackson as a quiet professor in Lexington. But Govmation a member rose and asked who is this Major Jackson? and the delegate from Rockbridge repliedHarper's Ferry, the last of April; Who is Colonel Jackson? but during the month he held the comman so that the Army of the Shenandoah which Colonel Jackson turned over to General Johnston was toler. But this difficulty was all forgotten when Jackson witnessed Walker's splendid courage and markerigid discipline. On the 21st of July, Colonel Jackson had a sharp skirmish at Falling Waters wie, six miles from Martinsburg, where we found Jackson awaiting us, and where, for four days, we remach the highest officer I at once went to General Jackson for the permit. I have a vivid recollectporteur. Afterward, introducing my friend, Jackson said to him: You are more than welcome to my [1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations of the cavalry in Mississippi, from January to March, 1864.-report of General S. D. Lee. (search)
ht this superior force, every man knowing, by actual observation, the strength of the enemy. Jackson was occupied by the enemy on the morning of the 6th, my command having passed through the city river. Sent Ferguson's brigade to Morton to cover Major-General Loring's front, and ordered Jackson, with his two brigades (Adams's and Starke's), to move on the flank of the enemy at Brandon andfficer acted with judgment and to the best interests of the service. On the 24th I ordered General Jackson, with his own division and Ferguson's brigade, to move towards Canton and harass General Sherman, who was then retiring from Meridian towards Vicksburg. General Jackson encountered the enemy near Sharon, driving in his foraging parties and hastening his march to Vicksburg. His work was w. Brigadier-General Ross, with his brigade of Texans, was sent to the Yazoo country by Brigadier-General Jackson, and Richardson's brigade of Tennessee and Forrest's cavalry were sent by my order to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the army of Northern Virginia. (search)
Valley District, May 9, 1862. To General S. Cooper: God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell yesterday. T. J. Jackson, Major-General. After defeating Milroy — Fremont's advance guard — and pursuing him until he was driven out of thts, which completely concealed our movements as we pressed on rapidly towards our objective point. I well remember when Jackson first came to the front of our column. Hearing loud cheering in the rear, which came nearer and nearer, we soon saw thaprise, but which made a gallant resistance as it was pressed rapidly back over the two forks of the Shenandoah river. Jackson was always in the forefront — sometimes even in advance of the skirmish line — and manifested the greatest impatience tor Col. Kenly); the cavalry charge at Cedarville, five miles from Front Royal, in which Col. Flournoy (under the order of Jackson and in his immediate presence), charged with 250 men four times his numbers, and so completely broke and scattered them
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 9.91 (search)
not indicated. Maurin's Louisiana Battery, (Donaldsonville Artillery.) Mentioned in the reports, but assignments not indicated. Moorman's Virginia Battery. Attached to Anderson's division, but not mentioned in the reports. Rogers's Virginia Battery, (Loudoun Artillery.) Mentioned in the reports, but assignments not indicated. Stribling's Virginia Battery, (Fauquier Artillery.) Mentioned in the reports, but assignments not indicated. left wing, or Jackson's corps. Major-General T. J. Jackson. Jackson's division. Brigadier-General Wm. B. Taliaferro. Brigadier-General Wm. E. Starke. First Brigade. Colonel W. S. H. Baylor. Colonel A. J. Grigsby. 2d Virginia. 4th Virginia. 5th Virginia. 27th Virginia. 33d Virginia. Second Brigade. Colonel Bradley T. Johnson. 21st Virginia. 42d Virginia. 48th Virginia. 1st Virginia Battalion. Third Brigade. Colonel A. G. Taliaferro. 47th Alabama. 48th Alabama. 10th Virginia. 23d Virginia. 37th Virginia. Fourth Brig
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Two foreign opinions of the Confederate cause and people. (search)
ss war, trampling under foot all law, all justice, all humanity.--Volume 3, pp. 467-8-9-70. The italics are mine. And this is history! Shall it be unchallenged? Shall the grandest Christian heroes of modern days, Generals Sidney Johnston, Jackson, Davis and their compeers, and the gallant armies that fought with them for a cause they believed to be just, be handed down to posterity as barbarians, such as Attala, Genghis Khan, or Hyder Ali. Waging a truceless and relentless war; tramplingared liken to the stern, simple Virginia professor, the Cavalier-Puritan, whose brigade of recruits stood like a stone wall under the convergent fire of artillery and rifles that was closing round them at Mannassas; no A. P. Hill, second only to Jackson among the lieutenants of Lee; no strategist comparable to him whose death by simple self-neglect marred the victory of Corinth, or his namesake, who baffled so long the threefold force of Sherman in the Georgia campaign. Rivers, railways and br
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 3: (search)
, if any respectable man would call me a disunionist, I would answer him in monosyllables. . . . But I have often asserted the right, for which the battles of the revolution were fought—the right of a people to change their government whenever it was found to be oppressive, and subversive of the objects for which governments are instituted-and have contended for the independence and sovereignty of the States, a part of the creed of which Jefferson was the apostle, Madison the expounder, and Jackson the consistent defender. I have written freely, and more than I designed. Accept my thanks for your friendly advocacy. Present me in terms of kind remembrance to your family, and believe me, very sincerely yours, Jefferson Davis. Note.—No party in Mississippi ever advocated disunion. They differed as to the mode of securing their rights in the Union, and on the power of a State to secede-neither advocating the exercise of the power. J. D. In this canvass, both before an
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 3: (search)
le of Mississippi, believing it to be necessary and proper, and should have been bound by their action if my belief had been otherwise; and this brings me to the important point which I wish, on this last occasion, to present to the Senate. It is by this confounding of nullification and secession that the name of a great man whose ashes now mingle with his mother earth has been evoked to justify coercion against a seceded State. The phrase, to execute the laws, was an expression which General Jackson applied to the case of a State refusing to obey the laws while yet a member of the Union. That is not the case which is now presented. The laws are to be executed over the United States, and upon the people of the United States. They have no relation to any foreign country. It is a perversion of terms—at least, it is a great misapprehension of the case—which cites that expression for application to a State which has withdrawn from the Union. You may make war on a foreign state. I
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