Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-14
THE HONOR BELONGS TO CAPT.
VIM. MOORE, AND THE GAL
LANr I4th TENNESSEE.


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EDITOR OF THE CHRONICLE Il
send a copy of a late number of "The
Southern Historical Society Papers
and mark for your notice the letter
of Capt. George Lennon to Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, which gives in his
thoroughly military style a concise
but interesting account of ''this in
teresting episode in the great move
ment" of Jackson's corps at Chan
c~ellOrSville.
As usual, some other command
claims the honor of the day, when
a detachment of the 14th alone has
any claim, and only proves what
our galIanC and brilliant Lieutenant
Mitchell was so often heard to say
during the progress of the war, that
''oficial papers we're the only papers
that had compliments for the 14th,"
and | am sure you will please all
the survivors OF the old regiment,
when they see published this official
account and correction by the gall
liant Marylander, Capt. Lennon,
who was on the staff, as ordnance
officer, of the peerless Brigade Com
mander Gen. Archer.
The tribute to that brave earnest
soldier and thorough gentleman,
Capt. VIM. Moore will be apprecia-
ted by this entire community, and
by none more than those of us who
had no share in the hOnors of the in
cident referred to.
The other officer of the 18th, re-
ferred to by Capt. Lennon was
doubtless the commanding officer,
at the time, of company K, and was
probably Lieutenant Brown, anoth-
err gallant fellow, who also, alas,
must be numbered among the host
who with their immortal corps COM
mander, "have crossed over the riv-
err" COMRADE.
GAINESVILLE, May ID, 1881.
The failure of General Hooker to
cut JackSOn's column when moving
to his rear at ChanceIlorsville has
been much discussed. The follow
ing letter will throw some light on
an interesting episode of that great
movement
GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE:-DedT'
GeneTdL-Accident some time ago
placed me in possession of a copy of
your address of October %, 1879,
which you ought to have sent me.
| | take the liberty of calling your at
tentiOn to the part acted by Captain
Moore, of the Fourteenth Tennessee,
which | think you would have
mentioned, had you known, or not
forgotten it.
When the ordnance train OF HIPS
division was approaching Catherine
Furnace (where the road turns alb
ruptly to the left and down hil) the
confusion ahead carried me forward,
where | found bullets whistling
through the wagons. Passing the
crest of the fill and riding up to
some cavalry, formed some fifty
yards Off and partially sheltered, [
asked the commander (Lieutenant-
Colonel Carter, of the Fourth Vlr-
ginia, if my memory IS correcO
"why he did not protect the Wag-
ons." He told me that the infant
nv had run out, and that he could
do nothing with the force at his
| command. | told him that there
was artillery in the train just back
| of nv ordnance, and that ] would
run INV wagons through the fire, If
he would stop the artillery and
| check the enemy'S advance. This
done, two guns placed In position,
two Shots fired and the men driven
from the guns by the minnies OF the
enemy. AT this moment Captain
! Stanard, A. 2. HIPS ordnance Off
| Ger, rode towards me, calling me,
and told me that some infantry re-
fused to ''go in" for him, but said
that they would accept orders from
me. | found Captain Moore, an
other Captain (whOse name l have
forgotten, / am sorry to say, and
twenty-eight or thirty men who
had been left on picket in the morn
inc, with orders to follow the brig
AIDE as soon as relieved. Captain
Moore said that my orders would
relieve him, in the eyes of General
Archer, for not Obeying instructions
to follow the brigade without delay,
and went in at once and drove back
the enemy's skirmishers, relieving
the train of all annoyance. Gener-
ais Archer and Thomas arrived back
with their brigades a few minutes
later, but never fired Il gun, Cap
tain Moore's brilliant dash having
accomplished all needed. If Colo
mel j. Thompson Brown was in
command or firing there | did not
know it, and Captain Stanard new
er mentioned it to me then or after
wards, and when Archer and Thorn
as came back, l was the officer who
reported the situation to them, as L
think General Thomas, if alive, can
confirm. Dear General Archer Is
dead. Stanard and Thomas and
Moore, l hope, alive and well.
Yours sincerely,
GEORGE LENNON,
SAN FRANCISCO, JAM, 26, 1881.