The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-06-25

on foot having lust before escaped the ro by which
some ~ gem mn party shot by squirting hi,
horse to the rear through tho line on tho road; he had
then dismounted and advanced TO tho front foot.
These facts arc given his information as he reside,
In the Same town with the undersigned, aud Is known
| A comparison Of capt wIbourn's narrative with
that OF General Revere VIII show that II was utterly
"alble for the party Of mounted men of which
I lrlrr.- "''o he that with Gen. jackson, and
tic ifl's' sp---- "''o for the group Of s6uerdl
llat i vas saa,'' lirr";ss, .o 'n which ho
claims to have seeh ID DO pSB' =. -
and his comtlnon; Wyhu 6en. Hr'6tt .iys
that TIE eatoSndg, thnt t9d, Up nsat to pi m9
Road after being feIoned " tie hotaeian Who de-
! tached himself from the party TO riette the
hoofs soon ceased to he audible When Il is con.
| sdered that besides this CHATTER Of hoofs, 'the
silence Of tho night was unbtgkcn save by the mclan-
stlI hoard when the ciattet Of hofses' hoofs had
ceased TO he audible before tho firing otcnrted " Is
very apparent that Con. Revere was quito long
distance from the Confederate lines. Along straight
aud hard road this ono was the sound ottho huots
OF horses In gallop can be heard long distance,
mem nor out Of sight OF Gen. Hnls party, and was
riding slowly to the front when FIRST fired on Cant,
Wllbourn is eefiaq that no was not more than MY
or sixty yards in itont u Con- lllll, white Cart.
| Adams thinks he was not more thaN tHorty0r thirty
yards in front, aud tho latter walked We whole
natural, as II was In tho night, and they occupied
different standpolnts The question who composed
then Involved In still greater mystery than that
which hangs over the man ON horseback seen by VII
bourn and Wynn, As to the group OF persons al
cgod to have DeBil sen Ground wounded man lying
on the ground II Is 60 he fesfoQ that Cen. Revere
| did not mistake two mon for several, ana rat the
| sight Of two men dlsmounted and engaged In ad-
mnstoringto another badly wounded would not have
caused visions Of tho dreaded Libby to nit before the
Imagination OF one who was so wei mounted,
equipped, and armed, especially when those two
| mon had no more formidable weapons than
| the glaHscn, flags, key or index, ETC., an-
Corps, and no other inen were In sight lie says
that no rode toward the Confederate position when
ordered to do SO, uutil no got out OF sight OF tho
group, then made cltcuIt around &, aud returned
| within my thisl own iiue' This II was impossible
| Tor him to do from the posiu9n oh the road where
| Wilbouru and Wynn were with JackGdn, which was
ut the spot at which the latter was when ftst
fired on, without getting into the Confederate lines;
nor could hc have made circuit around the party
| the road without encounerng the same troops that
had wounded Gen. jackson, as " must be recollecod
that he was after having been taken iron, his HORSE
on the north side OF the road and when wounded he
| had net gone obllquGly toward his line more than
twenty PAGES before he nrcd on by the troops, not
more than thirty yards distant. Therefore, while he
was being carried Ivy wilbourn AMI Wynn, he was not
more than nifty yards from the troops that had wound
ed him. Tho group that Gon. Revere saw must have
been different one altogether from that with Gen
| Jackson As II is possible he may have met another
jack the steamer II " possible that the cav
aCadc he may have hccn party Of Federal cav
airy or horsemcn cut of IN the previous rou and
that the group OF men around the wounded ono he saw
may have been likewise Federal officers or soldiers
|
each case to rldo and what troops those were,
would not he hundredth part ~ remarkable AZ the
fulnllmcnt 50 literally OF the microscopic pfcdic-
| ton. ~
IN regard to the supposed mystery connected with
| the man seen hy Wiibourn and Wynn this Is TO he
said II would not have been at all remarkable " In
the confusion attending the rout of the Eleventh Corps
some courier or other hcrsemnn belonging to the
Federal Army had been cut oil and bewildered, and
that when he found himself in the presence Of the
persons with Gen. jackson he was at a loss what To
do, and rode to tile Confederate lines when ordered TO
In yttntn In hNant a fftun mar hu
been that this man was Confederate, who, IN the
confusion produced by the fire that had done much
mischief to the mounted PARTIES With Gems. jackson
aud IIi, became separated from the rest, and when
he saw Wibourn aud wynn attending to wounded
man lie may have stopped to sec who 1t was being In
doubt whether he In tho presence OF friends OF
enemies. II such was the case he may, when ordered
TO 10 SO have ridden to what troops were indicated
| by Capt. Wibourn, and meeting Gen. Hill'B party,
did not return to report as that party went immod,-
atey to where Gen. jackson was. This man may
have occupied such position rs not to have heard OF
the Inquiries afterwards made or he may have boon
killed by the subsequent firing that night or In the
battle OF next day There Is really nothing myster-
Gus about the circumstance, and the Importance at
tached TO II 10y both Capt. Wilbourn aud Mr.. Wynn
resulted very naturally from the excited state OF mind
In which they were, under the very trying circum.
stances In which they We're placed. All engaged In
the war have experienced the great difficulty of dis.
tingushing between the Confederate gray and thu
Federal blue In tho night, and this difficulty some
times occurred In the day, ut distance. This incl
dent OF tho on horseback certainly attracted very
little attention In the army, and the present writer
though he commanded division in jackson's corp
at the time, ami subsequently three divisions OF thu
corps for considerable period, when both Capt VII
bourn and wynn were attached To his headquarters
had his attention called to the affair until sinc
, | the appearance of Excel and Saddle.'
To complete the narrative OF tho circumstances Mt
tending the wOunding OF Gen. jackson until lie wa
placed in the ambulance to he carried to the hospital
is only necessary to state that when Capt Wilbcurl
left him to obtain some whisky after the first fall o
the litter, Capt. Leigh and the Generals two aids
Lieuts Smith and Morrison, remained with him an'
faithfully administered to him. The party had TO III
down In the road for u time to escape the enemy
fire, and when IL ceased along the road. the Genera
was assisted for short distance to move foot, bu
was again placed upona litter. from which hc had
second painful fall, caused by OF the litter
4 bearers entaugng his foot In vine the litter
borne through the brus,wood the side of the road
He was placed third time upon the litter ant
carried To the rear, until Tho met the ambulance DR.
Mcclure had provided for him, and In this he wa
carried the hospital. along with his Chief of Aril
lery, Col. Cruchneld, who had been painfully
wounded during the engagement DR.. Hunter Nc
Gurc Gen. jackson medical director has furnishes
u full account of the incidents occurring from tn
time he met the General on his way to the unit
his death, and II may he relied entirely au
thentic. as may anything which Lieutenant tafter
ward CAptail James r. smith, the Generals de
D voted aid aud friend, may have stated ur may state
/ regard Ia what he witnessed.
The Interview between Gen. Lee and Capt WI
bourn, when tho latter communicated the sal nolll
h gencp is presented by his own urvarnislcd statcne
Q In far touching Hight than II has ever before a
peared In, whatever OF tho ornaments Of rhetoric ma
have been employed, and tho deep feeling whic
stirred the great heart Of the commander OF the Arm
/ of Northern Virginia on tho occasion strik
ngly manifested In the anxious exhibited for tn
comfort of him who had been with his great lieute
ant In his terrible calamity and who had faithful
and devnedly minstered to him In the trying scent
= of the night. as In any other circumstance
n j. A. EARLY.
AS stated in Il letter subsequent TO the one here
with given.
The road was cleared for a few moulents after II
second nrng, all persons on II had got out Of II
way 10 escape the fire, hut Gen. nm and his sta
advanced TO the 'front.'