Within an hour after
Jackson's sudden and deadly charge, his men captured Dowdall's Tavern.
Here
Howard, commander of the Eleventh Corps, now fleeing before the
Confederate rush, was holding his headquarters when the blow fell.
The trenches in the picture below were the goal in a race between
Jackson's men and the men of
Williams's Federal division.
This had been sent to support
Sickles and tried too late to recover the position that it had left, unaware of the
Confederate flanking movement.
Jackson captured two hundred men of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania as they tried to get to their places.
Williams after falling back finally checked the
Confederates, aided by
Barry of the Third Corps and fresh artillery.
As night fell,
Jackson with his staff ventured on his last reconnaissance.
The picture on the right shows the tangled wood through which he passed and the fury of the fire that lopped off the stunted trees.
Through a fatal mischance, some Confederates stationed along the road to the north of this spot fired upon what they thought to be a Federal scouting party-and there mortally wounded their own general.
Jackson had turned back along the road itself, and his men had orders to fire upon any advance from the
Federal position.
The next day, with a cry of “Remember
Jackson!”
the line in gray again swept forward, and by nine in the morning had carried the rude breastworks in the left-hand picture.
Hooker withdrew his entire army.
Yet the
Confederate victory lacked the completeness that would have been expected with
Jackson in the saddle; and the
Confederacy had lost one of its greatest captains.
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Where the federals made a stand South of the “Plank road” |
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Trees shattered by the firing near the spot where Jackson fell |
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