THE STORY OF A CANNONEER UNDER STONEWALL JACKSON

General "Stonewall" Jackson

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson

IN WHICH IS TOLD THE PART TAKEN BY THE ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

BY

EDWARD A. MOORE

Of the Rockbridge Artillery

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY

CAPT. ROBERT E. LEE, JR., and HON. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER

Fully Illustrated by Portraits

NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1907

Copyright, 1907, by

E. A. MOORE

To My Comrades

OF THE

ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY

CONTENTS

Introduction by Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr

Introduction by Henry St. George Tucker

• —Washington College—Lexington—Virginia Military Institute
• —Entering the Service—My First Battle—Battle of Kernstown
• —The Retreat—Cedar Creek—General Ashby—Skirmishes—McGaheysville
• —Swift Run Gap—Reorganization of the Battery—Wading in the Mud—Crossing and Recrossing the Blue Ridge—Battle of McDowell—Return to the Valley
• —Bridgewater—Luray Valley—Front Royal—Following General Banks—Night March—Battle of Winchester—Banks's Retreat
• —Capturing Federal Cavalry—Charlestown—Extraordinary March
• —General Jackson Narrowly Escapes Being Captured at Port Republic—Contest Between Confederates and Federals for Bridge over Shenandoah
• —Battle of Port Republic
• —From Brown's Gap to Staunton—From Staunton to Richmond—Cold Harbor—General Lee Visits His Son in the Battery
• —General Jackson Compliments the Battery—Malvern Hill—My Visit to Richmond
• —From Richmond to Gordonsville—Battle of Cedar Run—Death of General Winder—Deserters Shot—Cross the Rappahannock
• —Capture of Railroad Trains at Manassas Junction—Battle with Taylor's New Jersey Brigade—Night March by Light of Burning Cars
• —Circuitous Night March—First Day of Second Manassas—Arrival of Longstreet's Corps
• —The Second Battle of Manassas—Incidents and Scenes on the Battlefield
• —Battle of Chantilly—Leesburg—Crossing the Potomac
• —Maryland—My Day in Frederick City
• —Return to Virginia—Investment and Capture of Harper's Ferry
• —Into Maryland Again—Battle of Sharpsburg—Wounded—Return to Winchester—Home
• —Return to Army—In Winter-quarters Near Port Royal
• —Second Battle of Fredericksburg—Chancellorsville—Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson
• —Opening of Campaign of 1863—Crossing to the Valley—Battle at Winchester with Milroy—Crossing the Potomac
• —On the Way to Gettysburg—Battle of Gettysburg—Retreat.
• —At "The Bower"—Return to Orange County, Virginia—Blue Run Church—Bristow Station—Rappahannock Bridge—Supplementing Camp Rations
• —Battle of Mine Run—March to Frederick's Hall—Winter-quarters—Social Affairs—Again to the Front—Narrow Escape from Capture by General Dahlgren—Furloughs—Cadets Return from New Market—Spottsylvania and the Wilderness—Return to Army at Hanover Junction—Panic at Night
• —Second Cold Harbor—Wounded—Return