The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-05
The Ambulance Drivers Story OF
StonewaII's Fall.
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Nov. list. lso3.
W. Thomas r.. Wood
DEAR SrR-Gen T J. Jackson was
wounded Ia c 10 the afternoon IT May the
lOth, aud not at night a. some suppose
am certain OF this. because | was or
dered 10 z after hun before sunset
Ltre III the afternoon wa ordered hs
Or. Nicer a. our br-ai Il urgern. I
move out " a small valley tWnere | had
been placed with five other ambulance
drivers up a hill, beside a plank road
between the battlefield aud the railroad.
Sith order, not 10 leave there vi houf
Instructions from hun. | had Deeo Their,
about an hour when au officer rode up
aid Driver. whose ambulance arr
the,e2" | replied They are ia DR.
ricCrea- charge II chen said II
arier you front II cannot obey any Or
Ter except from Dr.. Nct'rea w5s he al
,yer. Who are SOUP Il am capt
Williams va, hi- reps totn, Well,
'aptaln. ! cannot leave here without
D McLlea permission / replied
tie the -aHi Wei. tins TIL .riet 8
Gen Jackson. Certainly then. Tap
al, Ill obey the order Come IN,
he olii, aud ,tarted head.
The -uu xa> uow about three quarters
al hour high. We drove ou one
hrte hundred yards, aud then the Gap
tin horse refused 20 20 further, aud he
.ot behind. | halted Tor him 10 come
~. When he did come M Tx said, Il
cannot ~ amy further. | repi ei that |
would not know where 10 fiul the Gen
t..i. lie then told me u 90 right on
aud would fiud bin lying on the lett
nani SIDE OF the y aux ROAD il the cross
way. drove on This was the last !
,aw If the Captain. | was b. Til, time
II the midst Of bomb shells and grape
srot. which were just high enough to 70
over my ambulance. Ny horses became
frightened, aud were hard 10 manage.
However. | drove % about half a M {
farther aud when | arrived at where the
general lay, | found him where the Cap
tain said | would = on the left hand side
IN the croSsway There were with him a
Wounded Colonel, whose name ! DO not
distinctly remember, but believe il was
Nichols, and tyo men whom | took to be
inter bearers. They We're between where
our lines had been aud the Federal lines
close to the artillery of the latter, which
we're then c~annonadIng heavily
| had some trouble in turning my
horses, on account Of one of them. balk-
ing, which caused some delay, so that by
the time | was ready To 90. Cen Jackson
and the olonel were both in, and drove
IF with them for the hospital.
" hen | had dri, en- a short distance
len. jackson SAID. Driver, drive more
CAREFUL | immediately refined in my
horses, which were still frightened, tie
best | could.
Soon after this | was OBJ ICED to quit
the plank road on account OF a bridge on
t having been destroyed hen |
turned off, the road was rocky aud un-
even, ana the General SAID, Driver. cant
YOU drive more easily - | rep led,
General. one CT my horses will baik /
[ rein him 10 too much" He said 20
mere. e soon arrived at the field hos
pItal. 1t was pow about one hour aud u
half after dark. Upon our arrival at the
field hopital, we were placed under a
guard, a doctor took his seat beside me
| was ordered not TO answer any questions
that might be asked me by any one whom
[ might meet, and under escort OF the
guard we proceeded Oh our way to the
,orps hospital. known as DR. ack' hos
pital, and at which we arrived about
,hree o'clock.
A large tent had been pitched for the
i%feneaal about three hundred yards from
he hospital, on the south SIDE of it. |
irove straight TO it, deliver d my
charge" was kept under guard uuul
iaybreak ard rele Ised.
| cannot say precisely 10 which, bnt |
1~eieve ii was the left arm in which Gen
Jackson was wounded, for | believe he
ny on his hight side while in the ambu-
ance, ard that the Colonel lay on his LETT
Idle. Gen Jackson was wounded within
half a mile of the Charlottesville h tel
L. j. Caps.