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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