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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)
eneral who it was. He asked, How far do you suppose it is? I replied, Five or six miles. He then said, with characteristic sententiousness, I suppose it is General Lee. He then asked me the time of day. Five forty, General. Thank you; time we were moving, was the General's laconic reply. I at once mounted and went to my guns. In a few minutes the clarion notes of the bugle from Major Blackford's skirmish line, some hundred and fifty yards in advance, rang out the command Forward, when Jackson's twenty-five thousand veterans stepped forth into the dark shadows of the wilderness, in search of the right flank of Hooker's army; keeping two guns with the front line of battle, and two with the second, alternating the sections as the leading guns would come into action. On we pressed through the carnage and destruction we had wrought, till a halt in the line was made. It was now night, and dark, except the glimmer of the moon through the tangled woods. Being so ordered, I opened