The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-11
g. CAIRO, ILLINOIS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER H. 1877

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IA 6traugef Incident inTthe Career
s30f StonoWall JaokaOn- The Vain
Efforts of o Northern Rifleman
20 Siay -the Silent Hero ofMaus
| .e IiStfifs'i p@a,gpsprseaH q,
I That&as unlawful iiay when tic con-
4 FaeeM ION stonewall Jackson, crept
upon poor Hooksr hidden in the Wilder
mean. Eeegohlone9 SHE, jackson on the
other, and the woods around Chanccllors.
VIE shook and trembIed, and We're al
most swept from the fayeo u,e-earih BY
the swhiriiny round shot the kissing Of
shell and the screaming Of grape-shot.
sien w Gstrllck stone dead as the battle
line advanced or retreated. white-faced
I recruits and bronzcd-faced veterans were
tornto fragments snd buried against the
living. Wounded men fell In theis tracks
to be- crushed in the earth by the great
NIB cut IRON the trees BY shot and shell.
1'ae roar Of guns, the crackle OF musketry,
the fierce shouts ana awful groans made
such he'll upon earth Of that battlefield
AZ was never seen before or after is,a 4&l
| % Fighting Joe Hooker was in box, but
not aman in his great army thought 1t was
so until the long gray line of stonewall
Jackson came creeping through the quiet
forestat3 O'Clock ON. that ever TO bs re-
memb.red "a OF May, 1863. The light
earthwoiks had been thrown up TO face
another way, toward Lee. AL lines faced
to ward Lee, all men were looking for Lee,
| whentbe three diyisioGs Oh eontcderates,
m ,yingwi,li soft step, Il ok Hooker's army
| in the rear, and drove one rigade pell nell
into and oyer another until verteran SOL
dier. were without strength or pr2s2neeot
mind That awttl night, when a,.,..a,Te
'fnE wocSbED WE'RE hURisD Afr,E' ~
in the woods, and the dead were thicker
than the lsayes.j1st broadening into full
life, a report ran through reorgabizei
ranks that the graft stonewaIl Jackson
had be en- killed. THOUSANDS. helIeyedit,
but three d lis, lying side by side in the
| ,u.xs A Inn ult tsi. yht
down, put hith in the rgmor. Why we
dfd Tot Is what1 started to write about.
Stuart, cavalry h.d been following no
Hooker's army, bat II was like 3 rat fol-
lowil. in the footsteps Ola horse. Lee
wasso far away and coming up so slowly
that Hooker haJtine to throw up light
earthwork, seize the best ground, fell trees
to project tue iapks. and make seady to
,sh,ltter au.Iifurl Back the expected attack. 1
On the second day OF May hissolder, hid.
den in the woods or lying in the fields,
va shed their clothing, wrote letters home,
made comfortable beds for themselves. and I
we're not in the least troubled about what
Ntch houiL ~ u
deep river suddenly bends to avoid blnG,
20 I'D that great army Of Lees bend to
the Wilderness. II split in two, to attack
at given hour on both sides, and Joe |
Hooker sat it-his tent aud congratulated
himself on his impregnabe pos ticn-cOn-
sidered impresnaala -by- him, when two
great highways ran, stpn9 tue rear q half
OF hisarhy 40 noisersI 'wasthc feelings
Of security that soon after noon thrce in.
fantry men started QUITO,
"a y iBRG, MY, on FORAGE rooD.
sigefs corps was on HO0kers west !
hapk, and commanded that dayrhy How
ard. Paftof tllls corps faced the old turn.
pike and plank road; part faced the other
way. Most Of the men were hidden 10 the
woods and behind ridges, and up the
bread highway which should have been
Grst Iookeato, stusrt was pushing his cav
alryrncn as sslrmishers. We three men
were beyond Slgers corps, and on the
point OF entering farm house from whieh
everybody had fed, when less than rifle
shot away, we caught sight OF the confcd-
crate advance. The cayarymen were ad.
vaneing slowly, evidently expecting TO, llnd
q heavy guard at some point, but at the
time We imagined that less than a regi.
ment of Stuarts men were feeling along up
to pick up strigglcrs. We at eart did not
fear them, and the proposition 10 enter
the house aud secure better view OF the
roads speedily conveyed us to Il chamber
window. We could see but little more
form that post. bnt We 'dsec, soon after
reaching It,
20 THAT SAME sTONEwALL JACKSON
ride from shelter out upon the turnpike in
full view, attended only BY three or four
officers. He had come out there 10 make
observations Like acat be ore she des.
troyst the mouse, he wandering at what
point he should strike to disable his victim
soonest "a. I'd. rry., /
5Grlm-mindedand soilr-tempercd was the
THIRD man Of us, aud wars horrors delight
ed him. When he had taken the second
look al the lille party sitting on theirhorse,
In the open road n wicked smile crossed his
face and he whispered: "By the hundred
gods Of the heaven! but that chap on the
left there is St0nwall Jackson, hui LIN 20
ing TO drop him." $40 $3.50 ''4' .'' D