Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-10-19

Jhe Time, L suppose. But aICer all, ne
nobody but Sam We'll hon. ~
And Maggie, the ha ppiest wife in all tn
world, is very proud IF nobody but San
Weldon.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
A "REMINISCENCES OF T HE WILDERNESS
From the Detroit Free Press.l FL
All! but these calls for regimental re-
unions mean something more than deco
rated halls, grand dinners and toasts anG
responses. Memory sits own with the boys
in blue and the boys in grey, and makes
their hearts thrill as they remember thu
terrible charge of the Coufederates to pos
sess themselves of the key position at Get
| tysburg. She asks the We terans 20 remem
Der how the brave Seventh. Michigan push
ed across the wide river flowing past Fred
erlckburg and looked into the fierce eyes Of
Barksdale's Mississippiall She calls uI
the sabre fight at Trevill ian Station, the
plains of Manassas and the mad. eager
rush at the earthworks al ound Petersburg
Well may memory sit a t every veterans
right hand, for under ne soil lulled to
eternal repose by the sam soft breeZes are
! the blue and the grey, falling on their
skirmish line-ln the CHI arge-single and
! by scores, and no man da res say that they
were not brave and true.
That was an awful day when that Con
federate lion, Stonewall jackson, eoi
upon poor Hooker hidden in the wilder
| ness.
LEE ON ONE sIDE-Ja CKsoN ON THE
| OTHER,
! and the woods around Chance louisville,
shook and trembled, and were, almost
swept from the face of the earth by the
| whirring round-shot, the kissing shell and
the screaming grape shot. Men were struck
stone dead as the battle line advanced or
retreated. Whitehead recruits and
bronzed faced veterans were torn to frag-
ments and hurled against the living.
| Wounded men fell in their tracks TO be
crushed in the earth by the greatslszabs
cut from trees by shot and shell. The roal
of guns, the crackle Of musketry, tlaelferce
shouts and awful groans made such bell
upon earth of that battlefield as was never
seen before or after.
Fighting Joe Hooker was in a box. ,tus
not man in his great army dreamed thai
it was so until the long gray line of Stone.
wall jackson came creeping thr ougll the
quiet forest at three O'Clock on that even.
ing, to be remembered End day Of May
1868. The light ear thworks had beer
thrown up to face another. way-toward
Lee. All liues faced Lee-all men were
looking for Lee, when three divisions OF
Confederates, moving with soft. step took
.Hooker's army in the rear and drove one
brigade pell nell into and over another
until veteran soldiers. were without
strength Or presence of mind. That awful
| sight when
THE WOUNDED WERE BEING BURIED
| ALIVE
in the woods, and the dead were thicker
than the leaves just broadening Into full
life, report ran through the reorganized
ranks that the great Stonewali Jackson had
been killed. Thousands believed it, but
three Of us, lying side by side IN the new
battle line, born after night came down,
put no faith in the rumor. Why we did not
is what I started to write about.
Stuart's cavalry had been following up
Hooker's army, but it was like rat follow
ing in the footsteps of a horse. Lee was so
4 far away. and coming up so slowly that
Hooker had time to throw up light earth
works, seize the best ground, fell trees to
protect his TANKS, and make ready to hat
ter and hurl back the expected attack. On.
that second day of Mayhis soldiers, hidden
in the woods or lying in the fields, washed
their clothing, wrote letters home, made
comfortable beds for themselves, and were
not in the least troubled about what an
other week would bring forth. AS deep
river suddenly bends to avoid a bluff, 50
did that great army of Lees bend to avoid
the wilderness. 1t split in two, to attack
at a given hour on both sides, and Joe
Hooker sat in his tent. and congratulated
himself on his impregnable position-con.-
sidered impregnable by him when two
great highways ran along the rear of hale
of his army. So universal was the feeling
of security that soon after noon three in
fantrYmen started out to.
| BEG, BUY OR FORAGE FOOD.
Sigel's 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 high
ways which should have been first looked
to Stuart was pushing his cavalrymen as
skirmishers. We three men were beyond
Sigel's corps, and on the point of entering
a farm house from which everybody had
fled, when, less than rife-shot away, we
| caught sight of the. Confederate advance
The cavalrymen were advancing slowly.
evidently expectiong to find heavy guard
at some point, but at the time we imagined
that less than regiment of Stuart's men
were feeling along up to pick up stragglers,
locate positions, etc. We, at least, did not
fear them, and the proposition to enter the
house and secure a better view Of the roads
speadily conveyed us to a chamber win
dow. We could zee but little more from
that post, but we did see, soon after reach
ing it a"
THAT SAME sToNEWALL JACKSON
ride from shelter out upon the turnpike in
full view, attended by only three or four
officers. He had come out there to make
observations. Like cat, before she destroys