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Thomas J. Howard (search for this): chapter 1.34
march north, south, east or west, or whether we are going to march at all. And that is as much as I generally know about General Jackson's movements. In the second Manassas campaign, Jackson conducted his movements to Pope's flank and rear so secretly that just before he captured Manassas Junction, with its immense stores, Pope reported to Washington that Jackson was in full retreat to the mountains. So at Chancellorsville he moved to Hooker's flank and rear so secretly that he struck Howard's corps entirely unprepared for his attack. My accomplished friend, Rev. James Power Smith, D. D., the only surviving member of Jackson's staff, gave me an incident the other day, illustrating how he concealed his plans from even his staff. After the return of Lee from the first Maryland campaign, Jackson and his corps were left for a time in the Valley, while the rest of the army crossed the mountains to Eastern Virginia. After lingering around Winchester for a time, Jackson's whol
Fremont (search for this): chapter 1.34
te with Edward Johnson, and sent (May the 9th) his famous dispatch: God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell yesterday. Ordering Ewell to join him at Luray, he pushed down the Valley, drove in Bank's flank at Front Royal, cut his retreating column at Middletown, marched all night by the light of the burning wagons of the enemy, and early the next morning drove Banks from Winchester and pursued him to the Potomac. Learning that Shields, from McDowell's column at Fredericksburg, and Fremont, from the West, were hurrying to form a junction in his rear, he marched his old brigade thirty-five miles, and one of the regiments, the 2nd Virginia, forty-two miles a day, and safely passed the point of danger at Strasburg, carrying his immense wagon train loaded with captured stores, his prisoners and everything, not leaving behind so much as a broken wagon wheel. He then moved leisurely up the Valley until at Cross Keys and Port Republic he suffered himself to be caught, and proved be
J. J. Banks (search for this): chapter 1.34
ad the most men at the point of contact. When General Banks reported that Jackson was in full retreat up the Ewell's Division joined him, he left Ewell to watch Banks, made a rapid march to unite with Edward Johnson, anagons of the enemy, and early the next morning drove Banks from Winchester and pursued him to the Potomac. Lnd left me here with no instructions except to watch Banks, and wait until he returns, and when that will be I have not the most remote idea. Now, Banks is moving up the Valley with a large force, and I do not purpose to nce; we are going to move down the Valley to beat up Banks' quarters again. I did not overstay my brief furllast night, and I spec he is on his way to fight General Banks in the Valley again. He had really started, aer's Mountain) in the fight with our old friend, General Banks (Stonewall Jackson's quartermaster, our men face Jackson's Brigades were broken, and it looked as if Banks was about to win, when Jackson dashed in among them,
Nat Harris (search for this): chapter 1.34
g before —but instead of moving on Culpeper, we moved on Louisa. At Frederick's Hall Depot, General Jackson had his headquarters near the beautiful home of Mr. Nat Harris. Mrs. Harris sent to invite the general to take breakfast with her the next morning, and he replied: If I can, I will be glad to do so. Being asked what hourMrs. Harris sent to invite the general to take breakfast with her the next morning, and he replied: If I can, I will be glad to do so. Being asked what hour would suit him, he said: Let not Mrs. Harris change her usual hour for me, but send for me when her breakfast is ready, and if I am here I will be glad to breakfast with her. When she sent the next morning to call him to breakfast, Jim, his servant, said: Surely you did not spec to find de gineral here at dis hour. He left 'bMrs. Harris change her usual hour for me, but send for me when her breakfast is ready, and if I am here I will be glad to breakfast with her. When she sent the next morning to call him to breakfast, Jim, his servant, said: Surely you did not spec to find de gineral here at dis hour. He left 'bout 12 o'clock last night, and I spec he is on his way to fight General Banks in the Valley again. He had really started, accompanied by a single staff officer, to ride 53 miles to Richmond, have an interview with General Lee, and receive instructions on his part in the proposed attack on McClellan. On this ride he rode up befo
Walkers (search for this): chapter 1.34
eps in the cemetery at Lexington, Va., hard by the grave of his chief, Stonewall Jackson. Second, Jackson was noted for the secrecy with which he made and executed his plans. He is reported to have said: If my coat knew my plans, I would burn it at once. He concealed his plans from even his staff officers and subordinate generals, and was accustomed to say, If I can keep my movements secret from our own people, I will have little difficulty in concealing them from the enemy. Colonel Walkers story, My old Colonel, J. A. Walker, afterwards made brigadier—general and put in command of the Stonewall Brigade, told me this incident: While Ewell's Division was occupying Swift Run Gap, and Jackson had gone to meet Milroy at McDowell, Walker went up to Ewell's headquarters one morning to see him on some important matter, when Ewell passed him, and merely gave him the military salute, and went on to the front of the yard, where he spent some time walking back and forth in evident
Hooker (search for this): chapter 1.34
h to Sharpsburg—his march from the Valley to Fredericksburg—and his last great flank movement to Hooker's rear at Chancellorsville, Jackson showed the same rapidity of movement. An able critic saidhington that Jackson was in full retreat to the mountains. So at Chancellorsville he moved to Hooker's flank and rear so secretly that he struck Howard's corps entirely unprepared for his attack. ering the movement with his cavalry, when he discovered that from a certain hill a full view of Hooker's flank and rear could be seen. He galloped back until he met Jackson, and conducted him to theaged in prayer, and then galloped rapidly down the hill to hurl his column like a thunderbolt on Hooker's flank and rear. Fitz Lee facetiously said that Hooker was in imminent peril when the Blue-lHooker was in imminent peril when the Blue-light Presbyterian was praying on his flank and rear. I might quote at length the opinions of many distinguished men as to Jackson's ability as a soldier, but I give only that of Colonel Henderson,
Starke (search for this): chapter 1.34
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 Carolina coast, where it was known as the 60th Virginia Regiment under Colonel Starke. Upon seeing my brother on this horse, near Pocotaligo, in South Carolina, General Lee at once recognized the horse, and again inquired of him pleasantly about his colt. My brother then offered him the horse as a gift, which the general promptly declined, and at the same time remarked: If you will willingly sell me the horse I will gladly use it for a week or so to learn its qualities. Thereupon my brother had the horse sent to General Lee's stable. In about a month the horse was ret
J. A. Walker (search for this): chapter 1.34
ncealing them from the enemy. Colonel Walkers story, My old Colonel, J. A. Walker, afterwards made brigadier—general and put in command of the Stonewall Brigan was occupying Swift Run Gap, and Jackson had gone to meet Milroy at McDowell, Walker went up to Ewell's headquarters one morning to see him on some important matterome time walking back and forth in evident impatience. The chief of staff told Walker that he had better not say anything to Ewell about his business then, as the general was in a very bad humor that morning. After a time Walker started back to his own quarters, when Ewell stalked across the yard, planted himself in his front, and eclaimed: Colonel Walker, did it never occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? No, replied Walker, we cadets at the Virginia Military Institute used to call Walker, we cadets at the Virginia Military Institute used to call him Fool Tom Jackson, but I never thought that he was crazy. Yes, he is sir! rejoined Ewell, he is as mad as a March hare; here he has gone off, I don't know where,
George E. Pickett (search for this): chapter 1.34
ricksburg. Secrecy was a strong element in his character as a soldier. Third. His stern discipline was another important element in Jackson's character as a soldier. He put General Garnett under arrest at Kernstown for ordering a retreat of his brigade when they were out of ammunition, and almost surrounded, saying, He ought to have held his position with the bayonet. Garnett was still under arrest when Jackson died, when General Lee released him, and put him in command of one of Pickett's Brigades, the gallant gentleman being killed in the charge at Gettysburg, while leading his men. On the Valley campaign I chanced to witness a scene in which Jackson rode up to a gallant colonel, commanding a brigade, and said: Colonel, the orders were for you to move in the rear of General to-day. The colonel replied in a rather rollicking tone: Yes, I knew that General, but my fellows were ready to march, and General——was not, and I thought that it would make no difference which
J. William Jones (search for this): chapter 1.34
The career of General Jackson Circumstances under which he received his Sobriquet of Stonewall—Disappointed his Critics—Interesting paper read before Massachusetts Historical Society. In March last, Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, of Virginia, read the following paper before the Massachusetts Historical Society on Stonewall Jackson, the Soldier: I used to hear the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute speak of a grim professor whom they called Old Jack, who was very eccentric, and upon whom they delighted to play all sorts of pranks. Stories were told of his having greatly distinguished himself when serving in the regular army in the Mexican War, and of his steady promotion for gallantry and meritorious conduct from brevet second lieutenant to brevet major. But this gallant record had been overlooked or forgotten in the odd stories that were told of his conduct at the Institute, and when Governor Letcher, his neighbor and friend, nominated him as colonel in the Virgini
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