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Ewing (search for this): chapter 1.34
nd ignorance as to our destination. At Charlottesville we expected to move into Madison County, at Gordonsville we expected to move towards Washington, at Louisa we expected to move on to Fredericksburg, at Hanover Junction we expected to move up the railway to meet McDowell's Column, and it was only on the afternoon of June 26th, when we heard A. P. Hill's guns at Mechanicsville, that we fully realized where we were going. Disclosed by a preacher. I remember that at Gordonsville, Rev. Dr. Ewing, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, with whom Jackson passed the night, told me as a Profound secret, not to be breathed, that we would move at early dawn the next morning on Culpeper, and intimated that he had gotten his information from headquarters. We did not move at early dawn—the men used to say that Old Stonewall always moved at early dawn except when he started the evening before —but instead of moving on Culpeper, we moved on Louisa. At Frederick's Hall Depot, General Jack
W. N. Pendleton (search for this): chapter 1.34
cross the mountains. It was then currently believed that Jackson would spend the winter in the Valley, with headquarters at Winchester, and a vacant house was selected for the general and his staff. After a day or two, Captain Smith and Colonel Pendleton, as a committee of the staff, waited on the general, and said: As it is understood that we are to spend the winter here, we called to ask permission to get some necessary furniture. That would add very much to our comfort, but I think wen (Slaughter's Mountain) in the fight with our old friend, General Banks (Stonewall Jackson's quartermaster, our men facetiously called him), who commanded the advance of General Pope's Army. We had been skirmishing all of the morning, and Colonel Pendleton, of Jackson's staff, rode up to General Early and said quietly: General Jackson's compliments to General Early, and says that he must advance on the enemy, and he will be supported by General Winder. Grim old Early replied in his curtest
Fitzhuigh Lees (search for this): chapter 1.34
al Lee to the price I gave for the horse in September, 1861, to make up for the depreciation in our currency from September, 1861, to February, 1862. In 1868 General Lee wrote to my brother stating that his horse had survived the war and was known as Traveller (spelling the word with a double l in good English style), and asking for its pedigree, which was obtained as above mentioned and sent by my brother to General Lee. Thomas L. Broun. Charleston, W. Va., August, 1886. From Gen. Fitzhuigh Lees book on Gen. Robert E. Lee, 1894. Traveller, the most distinguished of the General's warhorses, was born near Blue Sulphur Springs, in West Virginia, and was purchased by General Lee from Major Thomas L. Broun, who bought him from Captain James W. Johnson, the son of the gentleman who reared him. General Lee saw him first in West Virginia and afterwards in South Carolina, and was greatly pleased with his appearance. As soon as Major Broun ascertained that fact the horse was offere
Custis (search for this): chapter 1.34
thing in the defense of our beloved country. R. E. Lee, General. General Lee wrote Mrs. Lee from camp near Fredericksburg, May 11, 1863: In addition to the death of friends and officers consequent upon the late battle, you will see we have to mourn the loss of the good and great Jackson. Any victory would be dear at such a price. His remains go to Richmond to-day. I know not how to replace him, but God's will be done. I trust He will raise up some one in his place. To his son Custis he wrote: You will have heard the death of General Jackson. It is a terrible loss. I do not know how to replace him. Any victory would be dear at such a cost. But God's will be done. I have confined myself to speaking of Jackson, the Soldier, and have not spoken of him as the humble, active Christian, whose life in Lexington and in the army was a living epistle and read of all men. I cannot go into that now, except to say the negro Sunday school, which he taught with such devot
Rosecrans (search for this): chapter 1.34
under the name of Jeff Davis at the Lewisburg Fair for each of the years; 1859 and 1860. He was four years old in the spring of 1861. When the Wise Legion was encamped on Sewell Mountain, opposing the advance of the Federal Army, under General Rosecrans, in the fall of 1861, I was major of the 3rd Regiment of Infantry in that Legion, and my brother, Captain Joseph M. Broun, was quartermaster to the same regiment. I authorized my brother to purchase a good, serviceable horse of the best Grwould need it before the war was over. When the general saw my brother on this horse he had something pleasant to say to him about my colt, as he designated this horse. As the winter approached, the climate in West Virginia mountains caused Rosecrans' Army to abandon its position on Big Sewell and retreat westward. General Lee was thereupon ordered to South Carolina. The 3rd Regiment of the Wise Legion was subsequently detached from the army in Western Virginia and ordered to the South Ca
Joseph E. Johnson (search for this): chapter 1.34
gentleman, who afterwards served in the army, but made no reputation as a soldier. But when Old Jack took command, we were soon made to see the difference between his rule and that of certain militia officers who had been commanding us, and were made to feel and know that a real soldier was now at our head. He soon reduced the high-spirited mob who rushed to the front at the first call of their native Virginia into the respectable Army of the Shenandoah, which he turned over to General Joseph E. Johnson when he came to take command of the department. Jackson won some reputation in several skirmishes in the lower valley, and at this time very small affairs were magnified into brilliant victories. When he became famous. But it was on the plains of first Manassas, July 21, 1861, that he first became famous. General McDowell had ably and skilfully outgeneraled Beauregard, and crossing the upped fords of Bull Run, had moved down on the Confederate flank, driving before him
Wellington (search for this): chapter 1.34
his ability as a soldier all through his history of his campaigns, but I quote only from his comparison of Jackson and Wellington. He says: If his military characteristics are compared with those of so great a soldier as Wellington, it will be sWellington, it will be seen that in many respects they run on parallel lines. Both had perfect confidence in their own capacity. I can do, said Jackson, whatever I will to do, while the Duke, when a young general in India, congratulated himself that he had learned not to ct that no officer could possibly misunderstand, and none dared to disobey. Exactly the same terms might be applied to Wellington. Again, although naturally impetuous, glorying in war, they had no belief in a lucky star ; their imagination was alwarned to his courier, and said: Let the column cross the road. and his plan of battle was designed with the rapidity as Wellington's at Salamanca. Lee called Jackson his right arm, and wrote him when he was wounded at Chancellorsville: Could I
James Trimble (search for this): chapter 1.34
ry direction with orders to meet this new movement, but Jackson coolly replied: 1 am very much obliged to you, sir, for the information you have given me, but General Trimble will attend to them. I expected this movement, and ordered Trimble posted there to meet it. He rode off, seemingly as unconcerned as if nothing had happenTrimble posted there to meet it. He rode off, seemingly as unconcerned as if nothing had happened. Trimble did attend to them, and after a severe fight drove them back. General Lee was prevented by a sudden rise of the river from a severe storm from crossing at Warrenton White Sulphur Springs, but the next day Jackson forded the river higher up, and made his famous movement to Pope's flank and rear. Other IilustrationTrimble did attend to them, and after a severe fight drove them back. General Lee was prevented by a sudden rise of the river from a severe storm from crossing at Warrenton White Sulphur Springs, but the next day Jackson forded the river higher up, and made his famous movement to Pope's flank and rear. Other Iilustrations. I have noted other illustrations of this point, but I find I am in danger of making this paper too long, and must omit much that I might say. Fifth. Jackson was noted for the quickness of his decisions, and his short orders on the battlefield. At Winchester on the Valley campaign he said to Colonel Patton, who commande
J. E. B. Stuart (search for this): chapter 1.34
replied: Sir, we will not be beaten back. We will give them the bayonet. Bee rushed to his own decimated ranks and rallied them by exclaiming: Look! there stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally on the Virginians! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer! Jackson not only stood the shock of the heavy attack made on him, but did give them the bayonet, checked the onward tide of McDowell's victory, and held his position until Kirby Smith and Early came up on the flank. Jeb Stuart made a successful cavalry charge, Johnston and Beauregard had time to hurry up other troops, and a great Confederate victory was snatched from impending disaster. The name which the gallant Bee, about to yield up his noble life, gave Jackson that day, clung to him ever afterwards, and he will be known in history not by the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson, which his parents gave him, but as Stonewall Jackson. And yet the name was a misnomer. Thunderbolt, Tornado or Cyclone would be more app
John Marshall Jones (search for this): chapter 1.34
til he lost a leg at Second Manassas. Not long after the close of the Valley Campaign, when we were resting in the beautiful region around Port Republic, I got a short furlough to go to Nelson County to see my family, and my uncle. Colonel John Marshall Jones, Ewell's Chief of Staff, told me that if I would come by headquarters he would ride with me as far as Staunton. Accordingly, I rode by Ewell's headquarters, and just before we left the grounds, General Ewell came out and said to us in for I was hurrying back in hope that our rest near Port Republic would give the chaplains especially good opportunities for preaching to the men, but when I reached Charlottesville, I found Jackson's troops marching through the town. Asking Colonel Jones afterwards Why General Ewell wished to deceive us, he replied: General Ewell did not mean to deceive us, he was deceived himself. He never knows what Jackson is going to do. Jackson was anxious to be reinforced and move down the Valley a
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