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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 6: first campaign in the Valley. (search)
of usefulness and distinction. It may be added, that every brigadier who has com.. manded this famous brigade, except its present gallant leader, has fallen in battle, either at its head or in some other command. General Jackson was succeeded as its commander, by General Richard Garnett, who, having been appointed to another brigade, fell at the head of his command, at Gettysburg. The next General of the Stonewall Brigade was the chivalrous C. S. Winder, who was killed at its head, at Cedar Run. He was succeeded by the lamented General Baylor, who speedily, in the second battle of Manassas, paid, with his life, the price of the perilous eminence; and he, again, by the neighbor and friend of Jackson, General E. F. Paxton, who died on the second of the bloody days of Chancellorsville, thus preceding his commander by a week. This fatality may show the reader what kind of fighting that brigade was taught, by its first leader, to do for its country. General Johnston, having spee
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 15: Cedar Run. (search)
Chapter 15: Cedar Run. While the army lay near Westover, resting from its toils, General Jackson called his friend, the t, returned to their line of march, and bore toward Slaughter's Mountain. The division of A. P. Hill, delayed by the trainsas it arose. This is called by the country-people, Slaughter's Mountain. The fields next its base are smoother and more ak's) diverged to the right, and skirting the base of Slaughter's Mountain, by an obscure pathway, at length reached the northessed our arms with another victory. The battle was near Cedar Run, about six miles from Culpepper Court House. The enemy, In order to render thanks to God for the victory at Cedar Run, and other past victories, and to implore His continued fn has been expressed that although Jackson fought well at Cedar Run, it would have been better not to have fought at all; belt. General Jackson proposed to strike the enemy, not at Cedar Run, but at Culpepper Court House; and not upon the 9th, but