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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Narrative of events and observations connected with the wounding of General T. J. (Stonewall ) Jackson . (search)
Narrative of events and observations connected with the wounding of General T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson. By Major Marcellus N. Moorman, Stuart Horse Artillery, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
Collated from his Diary and memory.
The afternoon of May 1st, 1863, my Battery, of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, was on the extreme left of our troops, then confronting Hooker's army, near the old Catherine Furnace.
Late that afternoon we were ordered to shell a piece of woods in our front.
In order to do this we were turned into a very narrow old road, through a dense forest which ran perpendicular to the woods about to be shelled.
The leading guns coming up, I at once rode forward to find a position, as I was still so closely confined with the scrub oak, that I could not unlimber.
As I reached the guns in front, the Federal artillery opened, apparently all over the woods.
Unable to move forward, I returned to my guns, where I found Generals Jackson, Stuart and