Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-08-21
SHEPHERDSTOWN w. VA. FRIDAY AUGUST 21, 1885,


into action he says: 'I met General
Bees forces falling back. l continued
to advance with the understanding that
he would form in my rear. His battery,
under its dauntless commander, Captain
Imboden, reversed and advanced with
my brigade. The first favorable posi-
ton for meeting the enemy was at the
next summit, where, at 1l.30 a. m, L
posted Captain Imboden's battery and
two pieces of Captain Stanard's so as to
play upon the advancing foe. =
also ordered forward the other two
pieces of Captain Stanard's, and all
those of Colonel Pendleton's battery.
They, as well as the battery under Lieu
tenant Pelham (AlburtisD, came into
action on the same line as the others
did; and nobly did the artillery main
tain its position for hours against the
euemy's advancing thousands. Great
praise is due to Colonel PenGleton and
the other officers and men,"
Jackson was there, directing the stern
contest, and knew well from personal
observation to whom his praise was
justly due.
General Imboden remembers" Up. 96)
"twenty-six fresh guns ready" to op-
pose the Federal advance. Gen. john
ston, in his Report of the Battle, writ
ten with the data before him, says there
were "sixteen guns of the Army Of the
Shenandoah" and "six guns of that of
the Potomac" and that "for nearly
three hours" "this formidable artil-
lery," with the infantry and cavalry,
maintained their position.
Again, General Imboden says-and
this is after the "twenty-six fresh guns"
were "ready" for action: jackson or
dered me to go from battery to battery
and see that the guns were properly
aimed, and the fuses cut the right
length" The survivors OF the Rock
bridge Artillery who were in the battle
of Manassas testify that their orders
were not received from Captain limbo
den. Members of the other batteries
then engaged are not now accessible.
Colonel Pendleton is dead. His gall
lant son, A. 5. Pendleton, and his SON.
in-law, Edwin G. Lee, who were both
on Jackson's staff in the battle, and who
became-thc one Lieutenant-Colonel
and Adjutant- General of the the Second
Corps of the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia, and the other Confederate Brig
adier-are dead also. Sandie Pendleton
fell in battle. General Edwin Lee died
of disease contracted by exposure in the
war. No male defendant is left to de-
fend the fair fame-aspersed by General
ImboGen-of the fearless and devoted
soldier who shared in all the hardships
and dangers of the Army Of the Confed-
eracy in Virginia, from the "aftair at
Falling Waters" to the surrender at
AppomattoX c.. II. These mistakes of
General Imboden are, therefore, cor
rected by General Pendleton's daugh-
ter, OF the authority of the official re-
ports of Generals Johnston and Jack
son and that of Colonel Pendleton, all
on file in the War Records Office in
Washington, from Colonel Pendleton' s
letters, and from the personal recollec-
tions of men of the Rockbridg0 Battery,
and the infantry supporting it, who
will attest the accuracy OF the state
ments here made. Reference is made 10
Colonel w. Il. Poague, of the G. 5. Ar
tillery, now at the Virginia Military
to Judge William Mclaughlin and John
Alexander; John Ii. Moore, David L.
Moore, of Lexington, Va, who were all
in the Rockbridge Battery at first Ma
nassas; to Captain Bonde and Captain
Gillack, OF the Infantry, Lexington; to
Captain William G. Williamson, City
Engineer, Montgomery, Ala; to Jos.
Packard, Esq, Baltimore, Nd, and to
any survivors of the old battery.
SUSAN z. LEE.
LEXINGTON; Virginia, June 20.
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