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West Point (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
f General Smith, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, however, puts the question at rest, and shows that it was impossible for the Lieutenant Jackson of whom General Revere speaks to have been Stonewall Jackson, as the latter had located at the Institute in the summer of 1851, and did not make a trip South in 1852. In 1852 General Jackson had severed his connection with the United States army, though it appears from Cullum's biographical register of officers and graduates of West Point that his resignation did not take effect until the 29th of February, 1852; but it was a very frequent occurrence for the time for an officer's resignation to take effect to be postponed for some months after he was relieved from duty. The same register shows that General Jackson was a professor at the Institute in 1851, and Dabney's life of him shows that he was admitted a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Virginia, on the 22d of November, 1851, he having been baptised as a
Fort Meade (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
een able to find any one among his former associates who had. I have had many conversations with him on religious subjects. His views of divine truth were as simple as a child's, and his life was that of an earnest Christian man, taking the word of God as ibis guide, and unhesitatingly accepting all therein revealed. He was proverbial for extreme reticence, and this was observable in his conversations with his his most intimate friends. I remain very truly, Francis H. Smith. Fort Meade, Florida, April 22, 1851. Colonel — Your letter of the 28th ultimo, informing me that I have been elected Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, has been received. The high honor conferred by the Board of Visitors in selecting me unanimously to fill such a professorship, gratified me exceedingly. I hope to be able to meet the Board on the 25th of June next, but fear that circumstances over which I have no control will
Plank (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
a full statement of them. The left of my brigade line lay near the Plank road at Chancellorsville, and, after night had fallen, I rode forwa where I stopped to rectify the post of a sentinel not far from the Plank road. While thus engaged I heard the sound of hoofs from the direced the challenge of our picket, the section of our artillery on the Plank road began firing, and I could plainly hear the grape crashing throd to have been seen by General Revere when he rode out alone on the Plank road, did not consist of Captain Wilbourn and his companion Wynn, oing explanations. As, in the various accounts of the battle, the Plank road and the old Stone turnpike are frequently mentioned without thy from Orange Courthouse, the old Stone turnpike being north of the Plank road; but at the Wilderness Church, about two miles west of Chancede that rode up near to him when he was on his picket-line near the Plank road, after being rejoined by the horseman who detached himself fro
Fort Hamilton (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
29th of February, 1852; but it was a very frequent occurrence for the time for an officer's resignation to take effect to be postponed for some months after he was relieved from duty. The same register shows that General Jackson was a professor at the Institute in 1851, and Dabney's life of him shows that he was admitted a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Virginia, on the 22d of November, 1851, he having been baptised as a professing Christian two or three years before at Fort Hamilton, New York. There was a Lieutenant Thomas K. Jackson who graduated two years after General Jackson, and who was in the United States army in 1852, where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he joined the Confederate army. It is possible that General Revere may have met that officer under the circumstances stated by him, and may have fallen into the error of supposing that it was he who became known as Stonewall Jackson. The story of Captain Wilbourn is given as he ha
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
ght proper to make some allusion to the story in regard to astrology, as it has gone the rounds of the papers, and hence the letter of General Francis H. Smith is given with that of General Jackson accepting the professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. Those letters, and one from Captain R. E. Wilbourn, who was chief signal-officer for Jackson's corps, and was by his side when he was wounded, are as follows: Virginia military Institute, March 5, 1873. General J. A. Early, Lynchburg, Va.: Dear General — I have duly received your valued favor of the 24th ultimo. It gives me great pleasure to supply you with the information you seek in regard to General Jackson. For this purpose I send you herewith a certified copy of General Jackson's letter of acceptance of the Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Artillery Tactics in the Virginia Military Institute, dated April 22d, 1851. General Jackson reported for duty in July, 1851, and entered upon his
Lexington, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
from Cullum's biographical register of officers and graduates of West Point that his resignation did not take effect until the 29th of February, 1852; but it was a very frequent occurrence for the time for an officer's resignation to take effect to be postponed for some months after he was relieved from duty. The same register shows that General Jackson was a professor at the Institute in 1851, and Dabney's life of him shows that he was admitted a member of the Presbyterian Church at Lexington, Virginia, on the 22d of November, 1851, he having been baptised as a professing Christian two or three years before at Fort Hamilton, New York. There was a Lieutenant Thomas K. Jackson who graduated two years after General Jackson, and who was in the United States army in 1852, where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he joined the Confederate army. It is possible that General Revere may have met that officer under the circumstances stated by him, and may have fallen into
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 6.42
avy, gives his adventures by sea and land in a variety of characters. Having described his participation in some military operations in the State of Michoacan in Mexico, in the latter part of February, 1852, he says: The spring of 1852 was now at hand, and the time propitious for a change to a more northern climate, which for various reasons I was desirous of making. He then tells of his preparations for leaving Mexico, and his departure; and continues as follows: Arriving in due time at New Orleans, I was soon on my way up the Mississippi, and entered the belle riviere. Among my fellow passengers on the steamer was Lieutenant Thomas J. Jackson, of the rom the road into the woods. It must be remembered that General Jackson had been brevetted a major in the United States army in 1847 for his gallant conduct in Mexico, and if he had been in that army in 1852 he would have borne the title of major and would have worn the insignia of his brevet rank, according to the custom then
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
to border so nearly on the marvellous. He then proceeds to give the conversation held with Lieutenant Jackson, which was upon the subject of astrology, to which Jackson led the way. The latter is made to converse in a very different manner, as to his language, expression and thoughts, from that for which General Jackson was noted among his acquaintances, and he is made to indicate very clearly some belief in astrology as a science. General Revere then proceeds: Before we parted at Pittsburg, a day or two after this conversation, I had given Jackson the necessary data for calculating a horoscope; and in a few months I received from him a letter, which I preserved, inclosing a scheme of my nativity. According to the scheme of nativity furnished by Jackson, it appeared that his and Revere's destinies seemed to run in parallel lines, and they were to be exposed to a common danger during the first days of May, 1863, and it is stated that Jackson said in his letter: It is clear
Louisa (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
hen moving down the pike, to keep them from seeing who it was; but it was impossible, and we met some men with a litter before we had gone ten steps, on which we put the General, and while doing so the enemy opened fire on us at short range from the battery planted on the pike, and also with infantry. The horses jerked loose and ran in every direction, and before we had proceeded far, one of the litter-bearers was shot, having both of his arms broken. This man lives in Fluvanna or Louisa county, Virginia, where the citizens made up a purse after the war and bought him a home. While General Jackson lay on the ground after he fell from the litter, he grew so faint from loss of blood, his arm having begun to bleed afresh, that he asked for some whiskey, and I immediately ran over to Melzei Chancellor's, where I had noticed a hospital-flag as we passed, thinking I would get some whiskey from the Yankee surgeons, but they all denied having any;. and as I could get none there, I mounted
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6.42
kson, in connection with the subject of astrology and his being wounded at Chancellorsville. In this book, General Revere, who seems to have belonged at one time to statement of them. The left of my brigade line lay near the Plank road at Chancellorsville, and, after night had fallen, I rode forward, according to my invariable hed.--J. A. E. We were now within about half a mile of the open fields near Chancellorsville, where the enemy was supposed to be strongly entrenched. While this changtuart, it was evident that his intention was to storm the enemy's works at Chancellorsville as soon as the lines were formed and before the enemy had recovered from ttillery opened a furious fire upon the turnpike from the works in front of Chancellorsville, and a hurricance of shell and canister swept down the road. What the eye of the Plank road; but at the Wilderness Church, about two miles west of Chancellorsville, the two roads unite and run together from that point to the latter place.
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