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WAR SI Stonewall Jackson' Tragedy I >y an Balliol Gen. Lee's army was located on the .iouth side of the Rappahaonock river, near Frederlcksburg, Va., in the win ter of ISO!!. Gen. Hooker's army was on the opposite side, and in the early spring crossed the Kappahanoock. On the morning of May 2, ISM, Gen. Stonewall Jackson received orders from Gen. Lee to attack Hooker's rear, and forthwith Jackson put his . corps in rapid marching ordor. About 5 p. m. Jackson had reached the de sired location in the rear of Hooker's army, and at onoe gave orders to at ?tack the enemy. The movement of -'the Confederates was so sudden and .terrific that the Federal troops were ?routed in the utmost confusion. The ?T?onfederateB continued to advance vusti! about 0 p. m. Jackson had ^paralyzed the right wing of Hooker's army, sud his men were stampeded in .auch disorder upon the centre of ifiTooker's reserves. But the thick undergrowth rendered rapid pursuit almost impossible at night. At this fcour the Confederate line became somewhat entangled, in consequence <of -the darkness and thick under growth, and it was necessary to halt the Oonfederato forces in order to reform the regiments. To complete the vic kory, Jackson was about to swing his 'left, interpose his corps between -Hooker's army and the Rappahannoek river, and then cut off retreat of the .enemy. At this critical moment, a?oom rpanied by Capt. R. K. Wilburn, Capt. 'William Randolph, with a half dozen couriers and two men of thc signal --corps, Jackson rode forward to deter mine thc exact location of thc enemy. (Hooker's army was within L'OO yards, .and no pickets had been established ^between the opposing forces. Such '.was Jackson's ardor at this crisis of .?the battle that he continued his way ?without thought of personal danger. --'One of his staff officers, realizing the tpcril to which the general was ex posed, ventured to remark: "General, don't you think this is ?the wrong place for you?" "The danger is all over," replied ?Gen. Jaokson, "the enemy is routed. <Jo baok and tell A. P. Hill to press ?forward. " Then Jaokson continued forward, rand had advanced about 100 yards be yond hii lise, when suddenly a volley T7GO fire ahis own men, and appar ently aliped at him and his staff. Jaokson received three wounds, two $>alls entering the left arm, severing *the artery, and one tho right arm. All his escort, excepting Capt. Wil (bourn and Mr. Wynn of the signal corpB, were killed or wounded. The firing oeased as suddenly as it had be gan. Capt. Wilbourn, standing near Jaokson, said: "General, they must certainly be our men," to which he assented with a nod, but said nothing. He looked toward his line with ap parent astonishment, as if uoable to realize that he oould have been fired at 6y his own troops. He was taken ??rom his horse, and soon Gen. A. P. THill rode up and expressed his regret. The enemy was not more than 100 yards distant, and it was necessary to iremove Gen. Jaokson, as the battle -was likely to be renewed at any mo ment. He was carried to the rear with much difficulty through the un dergrowth. Gen. Pender recognized Gen. Jaok son as he was being carried through ?he lines, and said: ''Oh, General, I am sorry to see .yon wounded I My forco is so much -chattered that I fear I will have to fall fcaok." Although muoh exhausted by loss of blood, Gen. Jaokson raised his ^drooping head, and exclaimed: "You must hold your ground, slr. You must hold your ground, sir!" This was Jackson's last order on the battlefield. He was then placed in an ambulance and taken to the field hos pital at Wilderness Run. Ho lost a ? great /.c uan ti ty of blood, and would ? have.bled to death, but a tourniquet v waa forthwith applied. Jie was asked if amputation was ne cessary, should it- bo done at once, fie replied: ^ "Yes, certainly, Dr. McGuire; do for me whatever you think right." The.oneration was performed under ~-*hp^Dfluence D? chloroform. Tho "* mounded soldier bore it well. He .elcpt Sunday morning and was cheer ful. He sent for Mrs. Jaokson, and -asked minutely about the battle, say- ? ingY "If I had not been wounded or hid one hour more of daylight, I would (have cut oft* the enemy from the road .lo the United States ford and we / -would have had them entirely sur mounded. Then they would have been .obliged to surrender, or out their way out; they had no other alterna tive. My troops sometimes fail to ['ORI BS. s Dea th-Story of the . i^ye "Witness. ore .Sun. J drive the eociuy from a position, hut ; the enemy always fails tu drive my men from a position." This was said with a mile. Monday be was removed to Chan cellor's house. Ile was cheerful. Ile spoke of the gallant bearing of Gen. Khodes and of the heroic charge of the old Stonewall brigade. He made inquiries concerning many offi cers, and said: "The men vho live through thia war will be pioud to say, 'I was one of the Stonewall brigade' to their children." Ile insisted that tho term "Stone wall" belonged to the brigade, and not to him. Tuesday his wounds were improv ing. He asked Dr. McGuire: "Can you tell me from the appear ance of the wound how long I will be kept from the field?" When told he was doing remarkably well, he was inunh pleased. Wednesday night, however, while his surgeon, who had not slept several nights previously, was asleep, Gen. Jackson complained of nausea, and ordered his nurse to place a wet towel over his stomach. This was done, and about daylight the surgeon was awakened by the nurse, who said that Gen. Jackson was suffering with pain in the right side, due to incipient pneumonia. Thursday Mrs. Jackson arrived, greatly to the joy of the general, and ?he faithfully nursed him to the end. In the evening all pain had vanished, but he suffered much from prostra tion. Friday morning tho pain had not re turned, but the prostration was in crensed. Saturday there was no change in his condition. Sunday morning, when it was ap parent that he was sinking rapidly, Mrs. Jackson was informed of his con dition, and she imparted the knowl edge to thc general. He said: "Very good; very good. It is all right." He had previously declared that he considered "these wounds a blessing." He sent messages to all the generals, and expressed a desire to be buried at Lexington, Va. About 3.30 o'clock, May 10, 1863, Stonewall Jackson passed over the river of rest. To Gen. Jaokson's note informing Gen. Lee that he was'2,wounded, the latter replied: "I cannot exprers my regret at the sad occurrence. Could I have direct ed events I should have ohosen, for the good of the oountry, to have been disabled in your stead. I congratu late you on the victory, which was due to your skill and energy." It wa3 on receiving this letter that i Jauk?ua exclaimed: "Better that ten Jacksons should fall than Gen. Lee." He had unbounded confidence in Gen. Lee's eminent ability. The Stonewall brigade was com posed of men from the Virginia val ley. The Fourth Virginia regiment was from the southern part of the val ley- Greenbrier and adjoining coun ties-and was commanded by Col. Preston. The Second Virginia was from tho lower valley-Jefferson, Berkeley and Frederick counties. Col. Allen was the commander. The First Virginia regiment was from Au gusta county, excepting Capt. Stover Funk's company, from Winchester, Col. Harper commanding. The Twen ty-seventh Virginia regiment of Rock bridge and adjoining cDunties was commanded by Col. Eohols. The Thirty-third Virginia regiment, most of the members of which were from Shenandoah county, was commanded by Col. A. C. Cummings. These were the original commanders of the regi ments composing the Stonewall bri gade, but in the storms of battle they were soon numbered among the dead, and their successors met a similar fate. Gen. Jackson was the incarnation of a Christian soldier. His sublime ? faith in God dominated all else. Duty was his guiding star, and ho person ally attended to all the possible de tails of a great battle. Generally ho was in front, leading his legions with his hand pointing to heaven; his lips moving as if supplicating guidance from the Supreme Ruler. In my mind's eye I see him astride "old sorrel," and now and then giving the terse command, his forefinger pointing toward heaven and his lips quivering: "Push forward, men I Push for j ward!" He was devoted to his men, and al-1 ways gave them generous praise for 1 heroism. He was a strick disciplina rian, and would not tolerate disobe dience of orders by anyone. Gen. Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah valley in the spring of 1?T?U uri- n P?l?os o? brilliant victories, wiiieli lias np Cij'iul ju war. Within a period of pvc weeks lie defeated ??en. Fremont, at thc battle of McDowell: Gen. J?unk-, mar Winchester; Gen. Shields, ut I ?ort Republic, and (?en. Fremont again at ('ross Keys. In each battle Gen. Jackson's op ponent had double the force he com manded. Thc design of the I'nion generals was to concentrate their forces and crush Jackson by their overwhelming numbers, but Jackson's superior strategy of keeping them separated, retreating and advancing at will and attacking them in detail at places which he desired, proved that he was a greater master of the art of war. His men were inspired by tho motive of self-defensa and self-preser vation-the first laws of nature. After Jaoksoo had driven the Fed eral forcee from tho Shenandoah val ley he joined Gon. Lee at Kiohmond, and fell upon the right wing of Gen. MoClellan's army. Victory after vic tory crowned the Confederate banners for two. years. But the magnificent army that defeated McClellan in 18U2 was gradually lessened by bullet and disease, and when the surrender came it was a mere skeleton in number. Attrition did the work. After the battle of the first Manas sas, Gen. Jackson advocated getting together all the available'men of the South to invade the North. He ar gued that tho North had unlimited resources, whilo those of tho South were limited. Ho declared that in acting upon tho defensive it was some times necessary to beoome the aggres sor in order to be successful. He maintained that the North would wear down the South if the duration of the war devolved upon.endurance of num bers. Subsequent events proved Jackson's theory to be oorrect. The 2,800,000 soldiers enlisted in the north simply wore out the 550,000 Southern sol diers. Now York, Pennsylvania and Ohio alone enlisted for the cause of the Union 750,000 men, which is more than the oombioed South enlisted in defense of its cause I. C. Haas. Takoma Park, D. C. LED IN USE OF TORPEDOES. Charleston Saw Use of lrirat Torpedo Boat. Mrs. George W. Lamar, in the Savan nah Press. While the worl? stands looking on with wondering admiration at the plucky fight being put up by the ven turesome little Japs against their overwhelming foes, the Russians, the mind naturally reverts to the time when just suoh a fight against odds was being waged in our midst, and a few facto oonneoted with that fight of forty years ago would no doubt como to the knowledge of many as some thing entirely new, and oertainly as somethiog well worth knowing and re membering. The wonderful but terrible warfare with torpedoes that is being carried on with suoh suooess by the Japanese was the offspring of that mother of necessity and had birth in the need of a navy to compote with the thorough ly equipped vessels sent against our forces in the 60's. The first torpedo hosts ever used in warfare were put into action in de fence of Charleston harbor. These boats oarried a torpedo attached to a spar projecting from the bow of the boat ano oould be raised and lowered at will. The most successful action in whioh the spar torpedo boat was engaged was the attempt to blow up the United States frigate, the New Ironsides. On the first onslaught made the boat, whioh was oalled the David, ran close aboard of the Yankee vessel and h? osme entangled with her anohor ohains and, on being discovered from the deck, retreated into the harbor. A second attempt was made and, ol- j though the huge ironclad waa net sunk, she was so muoh injured that she was withdrawn from the coast of South Csrolina and took no active part in the war afterward until the bombardment of Fort Fisher. The first and probably1 the only sub* marine boat used during the war be tween the States, and the first on reo* ord, was called a fish boat and was built in Mobile in 1863 by Huntdley & Mcclintock, and it was intended that she should dive under a vessel, dragging a torpedo after her, whioh would explode on oontaot with the hull or keel of the enemy, the fish making off on the other side. Dur ing an experiment with her in Mobile she sank and before she oould he raised her1 whole crew were suffocated. I Gen. Beauregard, in 1864, accepted ! this boat for use at Charleston. Many experiments were made with her at this point, some of whioh were suc cessful, but owing to her defeotive machinery five times she carried her brave crow to watery graves. Her last attempt was against the Housatooio, a splendid ship of war, whioh lay in the north ohannel of Beaoh Inlet. Lieut. George E. .Dixon obtained permission from. Gen. Beau regard to take her against this vessel, and although all of the thirty or more men who hod niet death in the "fish" were volunteers, Lieut. Dixon found ( no dilHculty in getting another volun* : teer crew t i run the same risk. Un the evening ol February IT, at a 1 little before o'clock, thc llousatooic detected the torpedo boat, but too late, for IHxon had closed upon her and Gred his torpedo. A hole was knocked in her and she sank in four minutes. The victory to the "fish" was fatal to herself and ciew, for she sank with all ou board, and after the war, wheo the wreoks off Charleston were re moved, she was found lying at th< bottom, alongsido of thc big boat she had sent down before her. A handsome drinking fountain hai been erected on tho battery by th< citizens of Charleston to comm?mor?t* the unparalleled bravery of the orewi who lost their lives in this ill-fate* boat. The first ironclad fortification eve used in any warfare was designed am constructed by Mr. Clement A. Stev ens, then cashier of the Planters' an Meohanios' Bank, of Charleston, ? C. When it was determined to rc duoe Fort Sumter (under ?nderoot with artillery Mr. Stevens, whose pt ouliar goo;.UH had never been dreame of before, devised and built wt Cun ming's Point, Morris Island, this fo tifioation. Over heavy timbers 1 plaoed railroad T iron, laid at an a gie of 55 degrees. The amazing su oess of his plan established the val? of iron armor and revolutionized mo I ern warfare and the navies of tl I world. Mr. Stevens was afterwa I made brigadier general in the Cc I federate army and was killed at A S lanta. It is a fact well -rrorth reoordi I that at West Point there are only V I models of fortifications used for pt poses of instruction to the cadets I the art of attaok and defence. One I these is battery Wagner, the other ? I bastopol. Capt. Landon Cheves, w I was identified with the building a I perfecting of Battery Wagner, v I killed by the bursting of the first si I hurled at the fort. After his deat I model of the fort was fouid in I pooket. I One of the most daring and suooc I ful episodes of the civil war was j reoovery by the Confederates of j two large guns from the wreck of I ironolad vessel Keokuk. This vei I was so severely injured in an aot I against Fort Sumter, April, 1862, t I she sank the morning after the fij In an artiole from a war correspc I ent at that time the Northern pet I were informed that the work of rei I ering any spoils from this neck of I woods would be impossible. I writer said the rebels oannot raise I for she is filled with sand and si I covered by the guns of the blocka< I fleet and will ever be beyond t Ireaoh. I Not so, thought the rebels, 1 I ever, for in the darkness and sile I with slippery footing on the roi j of the turrets, their scant clot I kept wet with the salt spray, a pi I gang of men worked for three we j until the two guns, lsrger and i I powerful than any in the possessit I the Confederacy, were raised fron I wreok and landed in Charleston j to be mounted on Fort Sumter an< I other at Battery Bee on Sullii I Island, both destined to do good I vioe in the defenee of the hi I that they had onoe been broug I attaok. j A more thorough and in tere I aooount of the defenoe of Charl I harbor has been written by the I Dr. Johnson, of Charleston, S. < j that time major of engineers, anc I book is now Used as a text boc thc instruction of tho officers of the I * titted States artillery t-chool at i Fortress Monroe, Yirgiuia. Avenged at Latt. 'Td like that tooth, please," said thc smuil.boy after the dentist had extracted the torment. "Certainly, my little man. But why do you want it?" queried tho dentist as ho handed it over. "Well, sir/' responded tho grati fied boy, "I'm going to take it home, and I'm going to put it on a plate, and I'm going to 6tuff it full of sugar, and then"-with a trium ?hant au? ghoulish savagery-"then 'm going to watch it ache." Not Publio Spirited. Citiman-What's the matter with all you Swamphurst fellows? You don't seem to like my friend Back lotz. Subbnbs-No, he's selfish. Citiman-Oh, come now. Subbubs-That's what he is. A barn Dear him caught fire the other night, and ho put it out without waiting for the rest of us members of the Swamphurst hose to reach the scene.-Philadelphia Press. Offensively Unappreciative. "Did you ever hear of such shock? ing tnote!" exclaimed Mrs. Ctimrox indignantly. "What's tho matter?" asked her husband. 'Teoplo in thia hotel have com plained they couldn't sleep because Ethelinda played the piano. {The idea of anybody's preferring sleep to hearing Ethelinda play I"-Wash ington Star. ?rn i m - - If a man is tongue-tied he can never hope to become a pugilist. - A gentleman is a man who agrees with you; a crank is one who does not. - A woman's mind is as fickle as the shape of her hat. - There is something awfully exas perating about the comfortable way a fat girl can sit on a hard wooden benob. - The moth hasn't much use for a man who has but one suit of olothes. TO SAY Whether or not yon shall add to the dignity of your home by installing a good PIANO. We merely suggest that you call on us when yon are out seeking sugges tions as to what make yon should buy. That's all. Respectfully, THE C. A. REED ? 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ON HAND AND TO ARBIVE... Two Oar Loads o? FARM WAG-ON8, Two Oars of Carriages. Buggies, Phaetons? All the leading makes. Everything in our line at prices and on terms to snit our customers. FRETWELL-HANKS GO. D. 8. YANDI VER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P.gVANDIVER. VAN DIVER BROS. & MAJOR, ?- DEALERS IN Carriages, Buggies, Wagons and Harness. * ? WE have tried to give you as liberal treatment as it was possible for us to extend, and now we ask you, one and all, to be PROMPT in your SETTLEMENT with us. Please bear this in mind, and settle the very earliest day possible? . and greatly oblige. If yon Need a BUGGY wel?iave them Cheap. Yours truly, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. A. C. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. Office Over Farmers and Merchant? ' SPEOIAL attention given to the higher classes nf Dental woi k. Crowns, Bruges and Porcelain Inlays, such aa are done in the larger Cities. AU kinda of Platea made. GoM Pill ings in artificial teeth, any Vmo after Plates arc made. Oxygen Oas and Local Anaesthetics given for the Pain loa a Extraction of tooth. . Bleeding and diseased gams treated? . ?B5r All calls tc tbs country and near by Towns for the Painless Extraction of Tao th promptly attended to by a oompe ent assistant. I m A LONG LOOK AHEAD ?/man thinks it * when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumstan ces of late have shown how life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and firs soddenly overtakes you, and the only way to be sure that your family is protected in c&E? of cala*Aity overtaking you is to in? in a solid Company like J . . : e Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go? fiP>rop m und see us *bout it. MiM.MATTISONr STATE A?tKNTt PeoplcV Bank Building, AHDKRSO ?, 8. < $10.00 WORTH FOR $? Wo will give yon a Large Bottle of Gray's Sarsaparilla For $1.00 and will guarantee it to do yon 910.00 worth of good. At this season of the year you will find this medicine to be a great benefit to von. 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