The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-11

JOD as Tue general uAu5elA AeooAOAeu VIC
classical representations of Mars in He
brew mythology.
about the same color-each having the hue
of gingerbread without any Of its spiciness
their respective characters were in con-
catenation accordingly" For they were
equally obedient, patient, easy-going and
reliable; not given to devious courses nor
designing tricks; more serviceab1e than
snowy and, altogether, as sober slded
pair of subordinates as any Presbyterian
elder, with plain tastes and practical turn,
need desire to have about him. Both man
horsesseemed to understand their master
thoroughly and rarely failed to come up
fully to all his requirements. So that
when I told Jim that his master said be
must make me comfortable for the night, I
knew very well that nothing further need
be urged to impress him with the compre.
hensiveness of the order, which he'd be
sure to look upon as limited only by the re-
sources of the camp and his own capacity
as a caterer. Consequently, in due time,
substantial supper was served to which
full justice was done, as lad eaten moth
ing since daylight, and soon thereafter I
which appeared to have a caoutchouc capa-
bility of accommodation where Jim. ION
hospitable thoughts in tent proceeded, as
he said, to widen of it cut for to make it
more fitten for two.
IN TENT WITH JACKSON.
About midnight was awakened By the
entrance Of the general, who had been, as l
learned afterwards, at General Lees head
quarters, but did not let him know he
had disturbed me, as that wo lid have wor-
ried him. Lighting a candle and laying
aside bis great coat, sword, etc., he opened
the draught of the little sheet-iron stove
that warmed the Sibley tent, and seating
himself at the table read for while in his
well-worn Testament; then, kneeling rev.
erently down. he "bowed himself in prayer.
When through with his devoticns he drew
off his boots, put on pair of slippers and
quietly lying down by my side fell fast
asleep almost Immediately. BY this time I
WAS too wide awake to follow his example.
My thoug hts reverting to the terrible scenes
Of the preceding day would not be controll-
ed and could not recall them from the
bloody battlefield close by, where the
dreadful drama had been enacted and
where there were then lying SO many thou
ands brave men, who
s'-hal sunk OIL the ground Empowered
The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. "
thought of the magnificent spectacle of
the morning before, when "the rolling
mists" began to rise from the river and re-
vealed the grand Army of the Potomac, "
with its hundred and twenty five thousand
men, superbly armed and equipped, as it
deployed, column after column, ON the
open plain before us, in all the pomp and
pride and circumstances of war"-one of
the grandest. sights ever beheld on the con-
tinent. thought Of the splendid advance
of it's triple times of battle, marching with
the precision Of regulars on dress parade
and preserving their alignment perfectly
along our front as far as the eye could
range of our position, when-with three
hundred cannon roaring around them and
the air filed with the merciless missiles of
death-they so CALAMITY rushed to the
charge on the right hand and on the left,
and were SO remorselessly repulsed by the
concentrated fire of the confederates, which
sent them Keeling back beyond the river
| road to reform Their shattered ranks for a
fresh assault, while the intervening ground,
! covered with their killed and wounded, WIS
so torn up by shot and shell that it looked
! in places as if it had been plou, he'd. l
| thought of young Pelham's daring feat
| how, dashing forward far into the open field
upon the federal flank, he SO raked the ad-
vancing lines with an enflading fire from
two pieces of his horse artillery as to COM
| pei them to pause and not only to confront
him with a whole division of infantry,
thrown into crochet at light angles with
their main lines of battle, but, likewise, to
concentrate upon him the fire of four bat
teries, beside the heay guns on Stafford
Heights; and how, notwithstanding these
mbined attacks, the boy artillerist main
| ~ d,ol for }bo,, ~,
hour, and until be was recalled by positive
orders from his perilous position. Well
might General Lee exclaim as he did to
Jackson in regard to Pelham's prowess:
1T is inspiriting to see such glorious cour-
age in one so young and we'll might Jack
son say of him, as he did to me that day:
Hes the best artillerist, for his age,
ever saw" I thought of the furious as
saults made early in the afternoon upon
our right, when, again under cover of a
| terrible cannonade, ''three lines of battle
| advanced to the charge, preceded by clouds
of skirmishers" and strengthened by ten
batteries of field guns upon their tanks; of
how they broke through a portion of the
| confedera to line, forcing two of A. P.
Hills brigades to fall back on their sup
ports and of the Temporary confusion which
was caused thereby. for fear our flank
! should be turned and our position taken in
reverse; of how grandly the lion hearted
Gregg flung himself into the fight that was
fated to be his last; of how that staunch
old soldier, Jubal Early, came to the rescue,
| regaining the lost ground and re-establish-
ing our line, and of how the federals again
| were finally compelled to seek safety in flight
| while a terrible ire of canister and grape
made fearful havoc among the fugitives.
| I thought, too, of the last desperate effort
| that were made in the evening upon our
left, as described to me by those who saw
| them when the enemy SO insnnely assaulted
Lees position on Marye's hill which was
| impregnable ana where 80 many gallant
| men were cruelty sacrificed in vain attempts
to achieve an impossibility.
sroNEwA1L,s OLD HABITS.
Thus the principal evsnts OF that mo-
mentous day of successive excitements
passed in review before me in the order of
their occurrence, like the pictures Of a
moving panorama, with all the horrible
| details of battle field, so that, of course,
there was no more sleep for me that night.
But this was not the case with the general
| by my side, who was more fortunate. was
glad to see, in securing for himself the
! benefit of Tired natures sweet restorer.
| which knew he greatly needed. Jackson,
however, had the happy faculty of sleeping
when he pleased, of waking when he want
ed to do SO and of taking maps under cir
cumstances that, certainly. were not calcu-
lated to lull the senses in oblivion. For
not only have frequently seen him nod
ding by the camp. fire, with his staff laugh
ing and talking around him, and sleeping
in the saddle amid the dust, confusion and
discomforts of march, but, like wise, on
! more than one occasion, when under fire
Az was notably the case ct HaNtown in May,
I go. when made pencil sketch Of him as
he reclined on the ground against tree in
the rear of the battery. not more than thirty
feet from the guns, and was slnmberine as
placidly as an infant in its mothers arms,
while the cannon were firing rapidly. and
their reports were as loud as the live thun-
der itself. S..
J Rat 70 resume the thread Of my uss-