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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
d a general advance, Owen's cavalry leading. Jackson commanded in person the column on the plank rhurch after the movement should commence; but Jackson was there before him, for Hooker's columns diits existence; yet, so much did Lee lean upon Jackson as adviser and executor, that he consented an National troops now held the road over which Jackson had been marching, and preparations were madere these forces could be brought to bear upon Jackson, near the Furnace, he had crossed the Orange several of his staff were killed or wounded. Jackson was the superior of Lee as an executive officLee's troops were called, was irreparable. Jackson received three balls, one in the right hand as he swept through the woods and underbrush. Jackson managed to turn him into the plank road, wher blood by bandaging the arm above the wound. Jackson was then placed on a litter, and conveyed to usion caused by the fragment of a shell while Jackson was on his way to the hospital, and the comma[13 more...]
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 2: (search)
y and zeal, as to command my admiration. I regard him as one of the most promising officers of the army. I am, General, your obedient servant, (Signed) T. J. Jackson, Major General. General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, C. S. A. Endorsed, New York, November 9th, 1866. The enclosed letter from General JacGeneral Jackson to General Cooper was handed to General Hood by Mr. Meyer (a former clerk in the War Department at Richmond), at the Southern Hotel in this city. The letter is the original, and preserved by Mr. Meyer. (Signed) F. S. Stockdale. The foregoing letter is doubly kind in its tenor, inasmuch as I was not serving in General General Jackson's Corps at the time. During the 18th the Confederate Army remained in possession of the field, buried the dead, and that night crossed near Shepherdstown to the south side of the Potomac. Soon thereafter my division marched to a point north of Winchester, and passed a pleasant month in the beautiful Valley of the Shenan
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 3: (search)
valley, Lee's forces lay in readiness to receive the attack. General Jackson had, meantime, moved up to form line on our right, and that da as at Second Manassas, to obey the orders either of Generals Lee, Jackson, or Longstreet. About sunset, after the musketry fire had nigh ceision advanced. The order was accompanied with a message from General Jackson that he intended to drive the enemy into the river. I respondng been initiated by either side; when about noon Generals Lee and Jackson rode by my position, and invited me to accompany them on a reconno some seven in number, and each, seemingly, a mile in length. General Jackson here turned to me, and asked my estimate of the strength of thlligence reached us of the Confederate victory and of the death of Jackson. This latter event occasioned me deep distress. I was hereupon p But God ordered otherwise. I grieve much over the death of General Jackson--for our sakes, not for his. He is happy and at peace. But hi
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
nes with a proper reserve, and had assailed Bee and Jackson in that order, the two Southern brigades must have hy referred to, on page 12, it is asserted that General Jackson's infantry was placed upon trains there (at Piethe Shenandoah were engaged in the battle, not General Jackson's alone, as is stated in the above extract. Sean two days rations, or not more. Dabney's Life of Jackson. It is asserted that the country, teeming with grneral Lee's victory over Pope, and those of Majors-General Jackson and Ewell over Fremont, Banks, and Shields,invasions, directed by Lee, aided by Longstreet and Jackson, with troops inured to marches and manoeuvres as we. The author cannot assume for him, as he does for Jackson, that his sense of official propriety sealed his lio the stench of the battle-field, Dabney's Life of Jackson, p. 234. and the miasma of the August heat, and thuits sick was increasing. Upon that information General Jackson was requested to choose the most convenient an
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
hirteen brigades of the army. E. Van Dorn, G. W. Smith, J. Longstreet, and T. J. Jackson, were appointed majors-general to command them. Bonham's, Early's, and Rodlley district, lying between the Alleghany and Blue Ridge, commanded by Major-General Jackson; the District of the Potomac, commanded by General Beauregard, and exteed by Major-General Holmes. The Stonewall brigade was transferred with General Jackson to the Valley district. Brigadier-General R. B. Garnett, who joined the army soon after, was sent to Winchester, where General Jackson's headquarters were established, to command it. Major-General E. Kirby Smith, who had recovered from his wound, and rejoined the army just then, succeeded General Jackson in the command of the reserve. The Texan Brigade, ever after so distinguished in the Army of N, transferred from Western Virginia to the Valley district, reported to Major-General Jackson in December: the first, commanded by Colonel Taliaferro, early in the m
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 2 (search)
of my battery, and await the opportunity for further service. Just as we were ascending this second hill we met Gen. T. J. Jackson with the First Virginia brigade, hastening on to the. field of battle. I reported to him my condition and perplexid nothing but some canister left, which was useless at so great a distance. A fresh battery came upon the field, arid Gen. Jackson ordered me to retire with my men and guns to a place of safety, which I did, and had no further part in the fight. ing of the 21st an order was communicated to me to follow, with the battery under Lieutenant Squires, the brigade of General Jackson, then on the march towards Stone Bridge. Every preparation having been previously made, the order to mount was immet, scattering and causing them to spread over the fields in the greatest confusion, until I was ordered to desist by General Jackson, and save my ammunition for whatever occasion might now arise. Subsequently, I was permitted by General Johnston to
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
ing to advance, before daylight of the tenth, Jackson drew back his forces toward Cedar Mountain, awest as Bull Run on that day, the movement of Jackson through Thoroughfare Gap upon the railroad ate become convinced that the whole force under Jackson, consisting of his own, A. P. Hill's and Eweld. There were but two courses left open to Jackson in consequence of this sudden and unexpected o not believe it would have been possible for Jackson to have crossed Bull Run, so closely engaged sion, of McDowell's corps, and the advance of Jackson, which was terminated by darkness. Each partnd at all hazards, and prevent the retreat of Jackson to the west, and that at daylight in the mornble for him to have turned the right flank of Jackson, and to have fallen upon his rear; that if heuns on the enemy's fortifications until he (Gen. Jackson) got in position, of which he promised to nndled with great effect upon the columns of Gen. Jackson, which had to approach them through an open[29 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Rebel reports and narratives. (search)
d while ably discharging his duty at the head of his command, which was the advance of the left wing of the army. We have collected about one thousand five hundred small arms, and other ordnance stores. I am, Colonel, your obedient servant. T. J. Jackson, Major-General. Col. R. H. Chilton, A. A.G. Richmond Enquirer account. An intelligent correspondent sends us the following, dated on the battle-field, Sunday morning, August tenth, three A. M.: Gen. Jackson has fought the Yankees, aGen. Jackson has fought the Yankees, and has again whipped them. We left from above Gordonsville on Friday, about half-past 3 o'clock A. M., on an advance movement. About the middle of the day our cavalry came in contact with the Yankee cavalry, and after a sharp engagement they took to their heels, losing about twenty killed. We took about forty prisoners, with their camp and camp equipage. Our loss was none. Our troops encamped Friday night on Garnett's farm. Early on Saturday morning we again took up the line of march, and a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 108 (search)
Doc. 102.-retreat of General Banks. General Johnston's address. headquarters Department of Northern Virginia, May 29, 1862. the Commanding General has the proud satisfaction of announcing to the army another brilliant success, won by the skill and courage of our generals and troops in the Valley. The combined divisions of Major-Generals Jackson and Ewell, constituting a portion of this army, and commanded by the former, attacked and routed the Federal forces, under Major-Gen. Banks, successively at Front Royal, Middletown and Winchester, capturing several thousands of prisoners, and an immense quantity of ammunition and stores of all descriptions. The Federal army has been dispersed and ignominiously driven from the Valley of the Shenandoah, and those who have freed the loyal citizens of that district by their patriotic valor, have again earned, as they will receive, the thanks of a grateful country. In making this glorious announcement, on the eve of the memorab
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
other. But during the night of the eleventh, Jackson evacuated the positions in front of us, and rght that he had interposed completely between Jackson and the main body of the enemy, which was stie Plains. Thinking it altogether likely that Jackson would mass his whole force and attempt to tur in the morning; and the moment he found that Jackson had evacuated Manassas Junction, he requested, and so stated, that there was no escape for Jackson. I accordingly sent orders to General McDoweonly apprehension I had at that time was that Jackson might attempt to retreat to the north in the force vigorously, we should be able to crush Jackson before Longstreet could by any possibility reble for him to have turned the right flank of Jackson, and to have fallen upon his rear; that if her Lee, was arriving on the field to reenforce Jackson, so that by twelve or one o'clock in the day s opportunity was presented by the advance of Jackson upon Manassas Junction; but, although the bes[15 more...]
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