The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-06-14
THE LATE GEN. ] Z 3. STUART.
ms LAST HoURs-uow uE REcEIyED
ms DEATH WOUND.

Z whom the rebels call TIE "noAcr OF
/ Cavaliers lin the Richmond ReGss-
fRer. we clip as follows; mo Incl
dtnl Of morality, since the fall Of the
great Jackson. has occasioned more
painful regret than this. Major Gen.
J. +. X. Stuart, lhe model OF Virgiai-
an cavaliers and dashing chieitalh
whose name was terror TO the ene-
my, and familiar as household word
in two continents. is dead, struck
down, BY bullet IRON the das.ardly
foe, and the Whole Contederacy
moarns him. He breathed ou, his
gnllan, spirit resignediy, and in the
full possession Of al his remarkable
iaculties Of mind and body, ut 22 min
uies to eight o'clock, Thursday night
at the residence of DIR. Brewer, a rel
alive, on Green street, in the presence
Of Drs. Brewer. Garnet, Gibson and
Foninine OF the Generals staff, Rev.
Messrs. Peterkin and kepler, and a
circle of sorrow stricken cofuradss
and friends.
We learn from the physician in al
tendance upon the General that his
condition during The day was very
chungeable, with occasional de!irium
and other unmisiakeable symptoms Of
speedy dissolution. In the moments
OF delirum The Generals mind wand
cred, and like the imm, rial jackson
(wlose spirit, We trust, bis las joined
in the lapse Of feasuh, his facilities
vere busy with the details Of his com
mand. Ee reviewed in broken sen.
tences all his glorious campaigns
around hicC Clellan's rear on the Pen
insula, bey ond the Potomac, and up
on the Rapidan. quoting from his or
ders and issuing new ones TO his cour-
iers, With a last injunction 10 "make
haste"
JEFF. DAVIS VISITS STUART.
About noon, Thursday, President
Davis visited his bedside, and spent
some fifteen minutes in the dying
chamber of his fayoriie chiefiain.---
The President, taking his hand, said:
General, how do you feei?" He
replied, Easy, but willing TO die, II
God and my country think ! have full
filled my destiny AID done my duty"
As evening approached, the Gencr-
ais delirium increased, and his mind
again wandered TO the battlc-felds
over which he had fought, then off to
wife and children, and off again to the
front. A telegraphic message had
been sent for his wife, who was in the
country, with the injunction to make
all haste, as the General was hsncef.
ously wounded. Some thoughtless
or unauthorized person, thinking,
probably to spare his wife pain, alter
ed the dispatch to "slighily Wounded
and ii WAS thus she received it, and
did not make that haste viii h she
otherwise would have done TO reach
his side.
AS evening wore on the paroxysms
Of pain increased, aud modification
set in rapidly. Though suffering the
greatest agony at times, the General
was calm, and applied 10 the wound,
with his own hand, the ice intended to
relieve the pain. During the even.
ing he asked DIR. Brewer how long
he thought he could live, and whether
it was possible for him to survive
through the night. The doctor.know-
ing that he did NOT desire to- he bony.
ed with false hopes, told him frankly
that death--the last enemy--was
rapidly approaching. The General
nodded, and said. II am resigned il
Il be Gods VIII; but would like 10
live 10 see my wife. But Gods will
be DONE" Several times he reused
up and asked if she had come.
To the doctor, who sat holding his
wrist and counting the feriing, weak
ening pulsey be remarked, doctor, ]
suppose am going fast now. IL will
soon be over. But Gods will be
doe. ! hope ! have fulfilled my
duty ty my country and my duty to
my God"
At 75 o'clock, il was evident 10 the
physicians that death was setting its
c!ammy seal upon the brave, open
brow OF the General. and told him so
= a,ked il he had any hast message 10
/ give. The General, with mind pc.
fecily clear and possessed, then made
. dispositions OF his staff and personal
effects. To Mrs. Gen. II. f. Lee, be
directed that the golden spurs be Civ
en- as dying momenlo OF his love and
esteem OF her b0sbanl. To I,is staff
officers he gave his horses. So par
iicular was he IN small things. even in
the dying hour, that he enphaically
exhibited and illustrated the ruling
passion strong in death. To one OF
his staff, who WAS heavy built man,
he said, You had better take the
larger horse he win carry you bet
ter" Other momentoes he disposed
ofin a similar manner. To his young
son he leli his glorious sword.
His worldly matters closed, the
eternal interests Of his soul engaged
his mind. Turning TO Rev. Mr. Pc
terkin, Of the Episcopal Church, Of
which he was an exemplary member,
be asted him 10 sing the hymn COM
mencing--