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Manly (search for this): chapter 12
s had come on with our mother and sisters and that Beers had also gotten a furlough to meet them and was in Richmond with us. If so, it was the last time I ever saw the noble fellow alive. It will be remembered he fell at Chancellorsville. One matter of very great importance which took shape between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville was the organization of our (Cabell's) battalion of artillery. It was made up of four batteries-ours, the First Company, Richmond Howitzers, of Virginia; Manly's Battery, of North Carolina; the Troupe Artillery and Frazier's Battery, of Georgia; and it included, at different times, from sixteen to eighteen guns, mostly brass Napoleons. Its commanding officer was Col. H. C. Cabell, a member of the historic and illustrious Virginia family of that name and a man every way worthy of his lineage. For eighteen months of the hottest part of the war I was the adjutant of Colonel Cabell, fighting by his side by day and sleeping by his side by night, ea
A. P. Hill (search for this): chapter 12
law; but I was never one of those who considered the conflict to be a matter of sixty or ninety days or a year, and soon came to look upon it as of indefinite duration and likely to prove an absorbing business to me for a long time to come. Gradually I became interested in military life and began to contemplate it as perhaps my life work, and from this time my interest in it grew apace. Still I had thought little of promotion except in the aspect of making myself deserving of it. True, General Hill had, at quite an early period, said something of a commission, but none had come, and I had continued to look upon the position, even of a corporal, as requiring a certain amount of military aptitude, not to say talent and training, which I was not confident I had. But this morbid and unpractical view of things was giving way before the stubborn fact, established by observation and experience, that I every day saw men in position far above me, obviously my inferiors in every qualific
John Bankhead Magruder (search for this): chapter 12
eive them in a few moments; that Robert Stiles must not report to him until further orders; that he didn't want any untried man about him when about to move. The relations of our captain to the better soldiers in the battery were peculiar and enjoyable. On duty he was our commanding officer, off duty our intimate friend. I used to call him the intelligent young Irishman, and to tell the following story in explanation: Just before the Howitzers left Richmond, in the spring of 1861, General Magruder called upon Major Randolph to send him a suitable man for a courier, adding, intelligent young Irishman preferred and McCarthy was sent as filling the bill. The captain had long been laying for me, as the saying is, and now he had his revenge-Old Jack had conferred upon me orthodox Presbyterian baptism as the untried man, and so far as the captain was concerned, certainly the name stuck. What would he and I have given, two or three days later, to recall the action of the next few mo
Lincoln (search for this): chapter 12
illery battalion and its commander Commerce across the Rappahannock snow-ball battles a commission in engineer troops an appointment on Jackson's staff characteristic interview between General Jackson and my father the Army telegraph President Lincoln's letter Hooker's plan really great, but Lee's audacity and his Army equal to any crisis head of column, to the left or to the right. In the four or five months between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, that is to say, between the mim. From this order, as well as from his military history, with which we were familiar, we knew our man. We knew also the atmosphere that surrounded his appointment, but I for one never saw, until long after the war, the remarkable letter of Mr. Lincoln to his appointee, which not only revives and bears out my recollection of the spirit of the times, but fills me with amazement that a self-respectful officer could have accepted an appointment confirmed or accompanied by such a letter: execut
Fitzhugh Lee (search for this): chapter 12
ncoln's letter Hooker's plan really great, but Lee's audacity and his Army equal to any crisis hes to be found in an address delivered by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee before the Virginia Division of the Armyt the brilliant genius and audacious courage of Lee and Jackson shone so conspicuously throughout ting that had theretofore been projected against Lee and his staunch soldiers. The battle is of army. On pages 83-5 of his Four years with General Lee, Colonel Taylor says: General Lee, withGeneral Lee, with fifty-seven thousand troops of all arms, intrenched along the line of hills south of the Rappahannat he could compel either the evacuation by General Lee of his strongly fortified position, or elserg. His purpose was now fully developed to General Lee, who, instead of waiting its further proseche peculiar talent and individual excellence of Lee and Jackson. For quickness of perception, boldness in planning and skill in directing, Lee had no superior; for celerity in his movements, audac
Wade Hampton Gibbes (search for this): chapter 12
end a moment from the awful tension. Leaving his horse, Colonel Cabell walked up to me, color mounting his face and tears filling his eyes, and threw his arms about me, saying in a voice husky with feeling exactly these words: Stiles, if you should dare to get killed, I'd never forgive you. Such was the commanding officer of our battalion. Either at the organization or soon after, Major S. P. Hamilton, of South Carolina, was assigned to duty with the command, and at a later period Major W. H. Gibbes, of the same State, was with us for a few weeks or months. I am not certain as to the date of my first service with the battalion as adjutant. Some of my comrades insist that it was from the inception; but I am sure this is not true, unless, as is possible, I may have been detailed by Colonel Cabell to aid temporarily in arranging matters and getting the new organization in working order. I could not have been regularly even acting adjutant, for I held no commission until after Chan
Mc-Carthy (search for this): chapter 12
d with me; he hoped not to have me shot for some violation of military law. However, said he, you had better take one of the sergeant's horses and go and find out for yourself --which I proceeded at once to do; but had not gotten beyond the confines of camp before I heard the captain calling again, the utterance of my name this time alternating with shouts and peals of laughter. On riding up I found him reading, for the second time, an autograph note from General Jackson, addressed to Captain Mc-Carthy, and to the following effect: that if we had not already received orders to move we would receive them in a few moments; that Robert Stiles must not report to him until further orders; that he didn't want any untried man about him when about to move. The relations of our captain to the better soldiers in the battery were peculiar and enjoyable. On duty he was our commanding officer, off duty our intimate friend. I used to call him the intelligent young Irishman, and to tell the f
Daniel Stephens McCarthy (search for this): chapter 12
ng. The captain informed me that General Jackson had sent an order for me to report immediately at his headquarters. When my first surprise subsided I told Captain McCarthy, what I was then confident was the case, that the message was doubtless from my father, who loved to work in the Second Corps, and spent much time at the Gennd, in the spring of 1861, General Magruder called upon Major Randolph to send him a suitable man for a courier, adding, intelligent young Irishman preferred and McCarthy was sent as filling the bill. The captain had long been laying for me, as the saying is, and now he had his revenge-Old Jack had conferred upon me orthodox Presappearance of General Jackson's note. It was written in pencil on a small half sheet of bluish paper, evidently torn from a letter, and I remember, too, how Captain McCarthy-laughing still-tore it up, when he had read it out three or four times, and how the fragments floated adown the air. I told Mrs. Jackson of the circumstance
Joseph Hooker (search for this): chapter 12
he Army telegraph President Lincoln's letter Hooker's plan really great, but Lee's audacity and hi or removal of Burnside and the appointment of Hooker as his successor, late in January, and we had n, Washington, D. C., January 26, 1863. Major-General Hooker: General:--I have placed you at the to Chancellorsville, the position selected by Hooker as the base of his main operations and where hck, near Fredericksburg, was confronted by General Hooker, with the Army of the Potomac, one hundredeanwhile, with great celerity and secrecy, General Hooker, with the bulk of his army, crossed at theward so as to put his army between that of General Hooker and the Confederate capital; but leaving G Meanwhile two more army corps had joined General Hooker, who had now about Chancellorsville ninetytle of Fredericksburg, and all during that day Hooker's plan of operations was becoming more and mor developed, and with Sedgwick in our front and Hooker in overwhelming force in the rear of our left
H. C. Cabell (search for this): chapter 12
shape between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville was the organization of our (Cabell's) battalion of artillery. It was made up of four batteries-ours, the First Co For eighteen months of the hottest part of the war I was the adjutant of Colonel Cabell, fighting by his side by day and sleeping by his side by night, eating and h our limbs and unbend a moment from the awful tension. Leaving his horse, Colonel Cabell walked up to me, color mounting his face and tears filling his eyes, and th sure this is not true, unless, as is possible, I may have been detailed by Colonel Cabell to aid temporarily in arranging matters and getting the new organization inhether on the Virginia or Maryland side of the river I do not now remember, Colonel Cabell met me and asked what I was doing, and learning that I was at the time a solection, I think the first order of detail for duty at his headquarters, by Colonel Cabell himself, prior to Chancellorsville, as above suggested, is very probable, a
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