Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-01-13
[F'rona the VALLEY Virgi7aia9a, Jan. 81

CULPErER, Jan. 4, 1888.
Maj. s. NJ Yost:-Please correct the VIM
D1cAToR's statement. Mai. Hartman attended
to his own duties as Quartermaster of the LIST
Brigade, Gen. Jackson's. The command left
Winchester Thursday, July 18th, and reached
Manassas Friday, the 19th by rail from Pied
mont. And Maj. Hartman and Maj Hawks
did not rejoin us until Monday or Tuesday,
after the battle of Sunday. Maj. Hartman was
not absent from the command until about
Sept. 1, and 1 guess he hardly turned his du-
ties over to clerk. He had other assistants
also I do not know why Maj Hawks should
have let Quartermaster's clerk do his work
did not see Mr. Grattan on the field during
the fight Sunday, but | saw the gallant Pen
dleton, Marshall, Maj. Jones and Kid Douglas
more than once with Gen. jackson, but not
Judge Grattan. A. W. HARTMAN
My attention having been called to the
above card of Gel. A. W. Hartman, beg leave
to say that nothing could have been further
from my intention than to cast any slur upon
either Maj. John A. Hartman, my very warm
personal friend or Major Hawks, for whom |
entertained feelings the very kindest But
there is no mistake in the publication as made
| in your paper The facts are these A short
time before we We're ordered to leave Winehes-
ter, Major Hartman was summoned to his
home in Staunton, by sickness III his family |
think, and upon his leaving, upon his sugges-
ton and with Gen. Jackson's consent | was
directed to look after his duties so far as n
non-commissioned soldier could do So When
the order came to march, | Was directed to
take charge of the train belonging to the LIST
(Jackson's BriSade) and did so, marching the
entire night and reaching Paris little after
daylight. When stopping, with the intention
of resting and feeding, (having in the night
passed most of the troops), while the drivers
were unhitching, Gen. Joseph e. Johnston
appeared ON porch aud asked whose train
that was? Being told it was Gen. Jackson's.
he asked who was in charge of it and on my
answering that was, ordered me to push on
at once, without feeding, to the railroad, dis
tant think, some five miles. l did so, and
reached the railroad before jackson s Brigade
had left. There l left the wagons and by Or
der OF Gen. jackson accompanied him to Ma
nassas There he went with me to Major Bar
bour think, or whoever had charg and
procured wagons and directed me to take to
camp the matter with which they were laden
On the way, he asked me as we rode some dis
lance together whether was much tired T
had been going all the night before and this
was late IN the evening of the next day. l
was on my mettle and said, mo Sir. not in
the least" He said he was glad to hear it, to
go to Col. Allen of the I'd Regiment. get a de-
tail of 30 en-. unload the wagons and 90
back to the depot, think about five miles,
and bring out rations which he had provided
for, Major Hawks not having arrived, being
lett with the train. did SO and did not get
back until near morning
When the command moved to the left of our
line, was left in camp Some time in the
morning | received a note from Con Jookco,
directing me to load the wagons we had, with
three days rations, for his command placed in
the front of the wagons, and the ordnance
stores IN the rear and come as soon as possible
to the field. L may say here that on the ar
rival OF the Commlssary stores in camp L had
issued them to the command and it was a sub
ject of great worry to my friend, Major Hawks,
to get his vouchers for these issues properly
arranged as | knew nothing about the folm of
the thing and only looked to the substance
and gave to all corners what they said they
needed.
In obedience to Gen. Jackson's order went
with the train past the field hospital, where
DR.. Mcclure aud his assistants were at work,
house stands, meeting a constant stream of
wounded and stragglers coming out, who gave
a very unfavorable account of things. Leaving
the wagons under cover of that hill l rode for
ward to see the General and report. AS I
reached the plateau near the house, Gen. Jack
son appeared riding towards me with 1t. Col.
Jones of the End Va. who, think, was acting
as adiutapt that day. reported and told the
General where my wagons were. He said,
VERY well; hold them in that place until
further orders" As he turned to ride away,
Col. Jones said to him, General. think the
day is going against us" when Gen. jackson