The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-11-08

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-, farewell, summer,
Fair, but faded, summer,
sweet farewell
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HAD lie A CHARMED IIfE.
4 Strange incident tn the Career of stone
wall Jnc4.On--'She vain Efforts of II
Northern RincnlHn 10 Stay the Nj
lent Hero OF Manassas A
Strange EsPminiscenCe of
the wilderness.
That WAS an awful day when the con-
fcderate lion, Stonewall Jackson crept
upon poor Hooker hidden in the Wilder
ness. Lee on one side, Jackson on the
other, and the woods around Chancelors-
vile shook and trembled, and were al
most swept from the lncc of the earth by
the whirring round shot, the Kissing shell
and The screaming grape-shot. Men were
struck stone dead as tho bNttle line ad-
vanced or rctreated Whitehead recruits
and bronzed faced veterans were tom to
fragments and hurled against the living.
Wounded men fell in their tracks to be
crashed in the earth by the great limbs
cut from the trees by shot and shell. The
roar OF guns, the crackle of musketry,the
fierce shouts and awful groans made such
u hell upon earth of that battlefield as
was never seen before or after.
Fighting Joe Hooker was i'll a box, but
not man in his great army dreamed
that it was so until the long gray line OF
StOnewall Jackson came creeping through
the quiet forest at three o'clock on that
ever to be remembered "a of May, 1868.
The light earthworks had been thrown up
to face another way, toward Lee. All
lines faced Lee, all men were looking for
Lee, when the three divisions of conled-
crates, moving with soft step, took
HoOker's army in the rear, and drove one
brigade pcll nell into and over another
until veteran soldiers were without
strength or presence of mind. That awful
night, when
THE WOUNDED WERE BURIED ALIVE
In the woods, and the dead were thicker
than the leaves Just broadening into full
| life, 2 report ran through the rcorganizcd
ranks that tho great St0nowall Jackson
had been killed. Thousands believed it,
but three of uS, lying side by side in
the new battIe-line born after night came
down, put no faith in the rnmor. Why
we did not is what | started to write
about.
Stuart's cavalry had been following up
| IEooker's army, but it was like rat fol-
lowing in the footsteps OF horse. Ice
was 80 far away and coming up 50 slowly
that Hooker had time to throw up light
carthworks, seize the best ground, fell
trees to protect his hanks, and make
ready to shattcr and hurl back the cx.
pectcd attack. On that I'd day of May
his soldiers, hidden in the woods or lying
in the fields, washed their clothing, wrote
letters home, made comfortable beds for
themselves, and we're not in the least
troubled about what another week would
bring forth. Asa deep river suddenly
bends TO avoid p bluff, 80 did that great
army of Lees bend to avoid the Wilder.
ness 1t split in two, to attack at given
hour on both sides, and Jee Hooker sat
in his tent and congratulated himself on
his impregnabIe position considered I'M
prcgnablc by him, when two great high
ways ran along the rear OF half OF his
army. 80 universal was the feeling OF
security that soon after noon three III
fantry men started out to
REG, BUY, OR FORAGE FOOD.
:sigeps corps was on Hooker's west
flank, and commanded that day by
Howard. Part of this corps faced the
Old turnpike and plank road part faced
the other way. Most of the men were
hidden in the woods and behind ridges
and up the broad highway which should
have been first looked to, stuart wss
pushing his cavalrymen as skirmishers
We three men were beyond Sigcl's corps
and OH the point et entering farm
house from which every body had fed
when, less than riHe-shot away, W.
caught sight of the confederate advance
Tbe cavalrymen were advancing slowly
evidently expecting to iiad a heavy
guard at come point, but at the time W,
imagined that less than regiment o
Stuarl's men were feeling along up I,
pick up stagglers. We at least did no
fear them, and the proposition to ente
the house and secure better view Of tn
roads speedily conveyed us to a chambe
window. We could sec but little NOR
from that post, but We did see, soon afte
reaching it, that same Stonewall Jackson
ride from shelter out upon the turnpik
in full view, attended by only three o
four officers. He had come out there +
make observations. Like a cat, befor
she destroys the mouse, he was wonder
ing at what point he should strike t
disable his victim soonest.
Grim-minded and sour-tempered wa
the third man OF III, and wars horror
delighted him. When he had taken tn
second look at the little party sittin
their horses in the open road, wicke,
smile crossed his face and he whispered
"Ry the hundred gods of the heaven
but that chap On the left there is Stone
wall Jackson, and I'm going to dro
him !"
Old Pete, our sour.tempered compan
ion, had A first-class Minnie rifle with
him. He had carried Il for several
| months, in some way escaping the as'en