The Life of Stonewall Jackson: From Official Papers, Contemporary Narratives, and Personal AcquaintanceScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1863 - Biography & Autobiography - 312 pages |
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A. P. Hill advance arms arrived artillery Ashby attack Banks batteries battle battle of Manassas battle of McDowell bridge captured cavalry charge Cold Harbor Colonel column command commenced Confederate corps crossed D. H. Hill dead defeated direction driven early enemy enemy's engaged Ewell fall back Federal army Federal forces fell field fight fire flank Ford forward fought Fredericksburg Fremont Front Royal Gordonsville ground guns Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg heavy Hooker horses infantry Jackson Kernstown leader Longstreet main body Malvern Hill Manassas Martinsburg Maryland McClellan McDowell ment miles morning Mountain moved movement night numbers officers Old Stonewall passed Pope Port Republic portion position Potomac prisoners railroad Rapidan Rappahannock rear regiments reinforcements retreat Richmond river road rout Sharpsburg shell Shenandoah shot skirmishers soldier soon Southern Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Jackson Stuart tion town troops turnpike Valley victory Virginia wagons Winchester Winder woods wounded Yankees
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Page 3 - I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events, I should have chosen, for the good of the country, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy.
Page 138 - I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
Page 79 - ... The lily and the rose; Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth, And lights the hearths of happy homes With loveliness and worth. We thought they slept! — the sons who kept The names of noble sires, And slumbered while the darkness crept Around their vigil fires; But, aye, the "Golden Horseshoe" Knights Their old Dominion keep, Whose foes have found enchanted ground, But not a knight asleep!
Page 86 - McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. "He is ordered, keeping himself always in position to save the capital from all possible attack, so to operate as to put his left wing in communication with your right wing, and you are instructed to co-operate so as to establish this communication as soon as possible, by extending your right wing to the north of Richmond.
Page 34 - Brigade ! In the army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the second corps of the army you are the First Brigade ! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general ; and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down to posterity as the First Brigade in this our second war of independence. Farewell...
Page 34 - I am not here to make a speech, but simply to say farewell. I first met you at Harper's Ferry, in the commencement of this war, and I cannot take leave of you without giving expression to my admiration of your conduct from that day to this, whether on the march, the bivouac, the tented field, or on the bloody plains of Manassas, where you gained the well-deserved reputation of" having decided the fate of the battle.
Page 218 - Two attempts subsequently made by the enemy to follow you across the river have resulted in his complete discomfiture and being driven back with loss. Achievements such as these demanded much valor and patriotism. History records few examples of greater fortitude and endurance than this army has exhibited...
Page 201 - They have seen, with profound indignation, their sister State deprived of every right, and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. " Under the pretence of supporting the Constitution, but in violation of its most valuable provisions, your citizens have been arrested and imprisoned upon no charge, and contrary to all forms of law.
Page 150 - It is difficult, within the proper reserve of an official report, to do justice to the merits of this accomplished officer. Urged by the medical director to take no part in the movements of the day, because of the then enfeebled state of his health, his ardent patriotism and military pride could bear no restraint.
Page 255 - When this message was delivered to the wounded hero, he replied, " Go back to General Stuart and tell him to act upon his own judgment, and do what he thinks best ; I have implicit confidence in him...