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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Pelham the gallant (search)
struggle was decided. The enemy was retiring, badly hurt, and General Stuart added in his dispatch: We are after him. His dead men and horselingered until after midnight on the morning of the 18th, when General Stuart telegraphed to Mr. Curry, of Alabama: The noble, the chiama, the land of his birth. The Major-General commanding, wrote Stuart, in a general order, approaches with reluctance the painful dut I anticipate my subject. Once associated with the command of Stuart, he secured the warm regard and unlimited confidence of that Generaection of the artillery was left, with unhestitating confidence, by Stuart to the young officer; and those who witnessed, during that arduousackson speak of him in terms of exaggerated compliment, and ask General Stuart if he had another Pelham, to give him to him. On that great dawas unfriendly, and never saw him angry but twice. Poor boy! said Stuart one day, he was angry with me once, and the speaker had known him l
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Farley the scout (search)
mentioned this affair afterwards in an interview with General Stuart, and spoke in warm terms of the courage which led Farlwho were going to the South-west; but chancing to meet General Stuart, that officer took violent possession of him, and thent Farley soon became greatly pleased. He had already seen Stuart at work, and that love of adventure and contempt of dangerswing and opportunity of display. It was in vain that General Stuart, estimating at their full value his capacity for commald. Thus permanently attached as volunteer aide to General Stuart, Farley thereafter took part in all the movements of tpeper county, on the 9th of June, 1863, he was sent by General Stuart to carry a message to Colonel Butler, of the 2d South s coming, so daring was he, and so much depended on by General Stuart. He scouted a great deal alone in the enemy's lines, etch will be the mention made of the brave partisan in General Stuart's report of the battle of Fleetwood. It is as follows
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., To Gettysburg and back again. (search)
tion of Fleetwood Hill, near Brandy. In fact, Stuart had been assailed there by the elite of the Fehe station to find the meaning of everything. Stuart had been quietly waiting there for his column, while Hooker followed up Lee, was very unlike Stuart. Strike across for the Blue Ridge, and cross ere, that not a picket watched the stream. Stuart's design was soon developed. We reached at nitroying the ammunition; but the ready brain of Stuart found an expedient. The boxes were quickly unr of hoofs, and cries of Halt! Halt! Halt! Stuart burst into laughter, and turning round, exclaithe Pennsylvanians call this edible. When General Stuart had emptied his coffee-cup — which always s nights had prostrated the strongest, and General Stuart and his staff moving without escort on the the cavalry were at Gettysburg. Vi. General Stuart arrived with his cavalry on the evening ofuietly walked on by, and nearly carried Major-General Stuart into the cavalry pickets of the enemy. [48 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., From the Rapidan to Frying-Pan in October, 1863. (search)
ill then streaming toward Madison Court-House, Stuart came on the exterior picket of the enemy-theirldier or kindlier gentleman. Ii. At dawn Stuart was again in the saddle, pressing forward upone Federal cavalry was attacked and driven; and Stuart was pushing on, when the presence of a Federale fields on Stone House Mountain as quickly as Stuart, moving parallel to his column, and suddenly t Near Brandy it encountered what seemed to be Stuart's entire cavalry. At various openings in the way before them, and crossing his whole column Stuart pushed on upon the track of the enemy toward one of the most curious of the war. Iii. Stuart had just passed Auburn, when General Gordon, c the Federal artillery. Who is that? said General Stuart, pointing to the figure, indistinct in the portion of the country. On the next morning, Stuart left Fitz Lee in front of Bull Run, to oppose had carried out his half of the programme, and Stuart hastened to do the rest. At the sound of Gene[54 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Major R--‘s little private scout. (search)
barrels revolve with admirable grace; his salute with the sabre is simply perfection; his air, as he listens to an order from his superior officer, says plainly, All I wish is to know what you want me to do, General — if it can be done it will be done. This air does not deceive. It is well known to the Major's friends that his motto is, Neck or nothing. At Mine Run, when General Meade confronted the Southern lines, the worthy said to me, A soldier's duty is to obey his orders; and if General Stuart told me to charge the Yankee army by myself, I would do it. He would be responsible. It will be seen from the above sketch of the gallant Major, that he is a thorough soldier. In fact he loves his profession, and is not satisfied with performing routine duty. He is fond of volunteering on forlorn hopes, and in desperate emergencieswhen he cannot get at the blue-coats for any length of time-he pines. This mood came to him in the fall of 1862. Quiet had reigned along the lines so
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., A dash at Aldie. (search)
ter him. And I went on to catch up with General Stuart, who had ridden on in advance. Two hun and pushing on at full gallop, I came up with Stuart on the high hill west of Aldie. All along theill, relieved against the sky, was the form of Stuart, with floating plume, drawn sword, and animateached the head of the column, going at a run, Stuart was there too. Then the cause of the halt was was no greater artillerist than this boy. Stuart was now upon the hill, where he had drawn up hclutch, moving steadily across to Middleburg. Stuart was out of the trap. At Middleburg, that che C. S. A., when the name of that soldier was Stuart, Jackson, Gordon, or Rodes. Fair hands covere The selection of that title for his camp by Stuart, will indicate little to the world at large. e South mourned him-dead thus at twenty-four. Stuart wept for him, and named his new quarters Camp to return it to some member of his family. Stuart took the watch and looked at it. I remembe[15 more...]
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Jackson's death-wound. (search)
into what is called the Brock Road, turned the head of his column northward, and rapidly advanced around General Hooker's right flank. A cavalry force under General Stuart had moved in front and on the flanks of the column, driving off scouting parties and other too inquisitive wayfarers; and on reaching the junction of the Orathe turnpike, looking more weird and sombre in the half light, came the melancholy notes of the whippoorwill. I think there must have been ten thousand, said General Stuart afterwards. Such was the scene amid which the events now about to be narrated took place. Jackson had advanced with some members of his staff, considerabdistant. Here he lay throughout the next day, Sunday, listening to the thunder of the artillery and the long roll of the musketry from Chancellorsville, where Stuart, who had succeeded him in command, was pressing General Hooker back toward the Rappahannock. His soul must have thrilled at that sound, long so familiar, but he
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Facetiae of the camp: souvenirs of a C. S. Officer. (search)
e page if they weary you-but perhaps you will laugh. They are trifles, it is true; but then life is half made up of trifles — is it not? General Fitz Lee, one day in the fall of 1863, sent a courier up from the Lower Rappahannock, to ask General Stuart why General Pleasanton of the U. S. Army had been sent to Georgia? --a dispatch by signal from corps headquarters having communicated that intelligence. Grand tableau when the affair was explained! General Stuart had signalled: Meade'General Stuart had signalled: Meade's Headquarters are at Wallack's, and Pleasanton's at Cumberland George's --names of persons residing near Culpeper Court-house. The signal flags had said: Meade's headquarters are at Wallack's, and Pleasanton's at Cumberland Georgia! Ii. In November, 1863, Lieutenant — was in an old deserted mansion near Culpeper Court-house, with some prisoners confined in the upper rooms; the enemy not being far distant. While waiting, a blaze shot up from a fire which some soldiers had kindled near
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Exchange of prisoners. (search)
aroles or a return into captivity, should be deemed to be in force before it had any existence. As an illustration in this connection of what strange things are done in time of war, I refer to a Court of Inquiry, the official proceedings of which are found in the Army and Navy official Gazette, under date of July 14th, 1863. The court was convened on June 30th, 1863, to determine whether Major Duane and Captain Michler, who had been captured and paroled on the 28th of June, 1863, by General Stuart, should be placed on duty without exchange, or be returned to the enemy as prisoners of war. The general order then in force, in its 131st paragraph, declared that if the government does not approve of the parole, the paroled officer must return into captivity. Yet the court found that the government was free to place those officers on duty without having been exchanged, and gave as its reason that I had been notified that such paroles would not be recognized. But the court forgot to
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Morale of General Lee's army. (search)
lly known in this world. These noble leaders had at the first the co-operation of such Christian soldiers as Generals D. H. Hill, T. R. Cobb, A. H. Colquitt, J. E. B. Stuart, W. N. Pendleton, John B. Gordon, C. A. Evans, John Pegram, and a large number of other general, field, staff, and subordinate officers; and, during the war, plains and missionaries with the greatest courtesy and respect. I can testify that, in constant intercourse with our officers, from Generals Lee, Jackson, Ewell, Stuart, A. P. Hill, Early, J. B. Gordon, J. A. Walker, and others of highest rank down to the lowest rank, I was never treated otherwise than with marked courtesy, kindnNow I have gone to Him, and I am happy in the assurance that He will not falsify His word, but will be true to His promise. As the great cavalry chief, General J. E. B. Stuart, was quietly and calmly breathing out his noble life, he said to President Davis, who stood at his bedside: I am ready and willing to die, if God and my c
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