Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-27

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close at hand 70 spring an atacck.
StOnewall was the central figure OF that
circle, and like the fOeman OF Bozzaris
at AIissolonghi, he
Woke TO hear his sentries shriek,
TO arms They come.
kissing his babe and bidding his wife
10 hasten from the scene that must
soon become n battlefield, be rode TO the
front to join his troops. When next his
wife saw him he was on his deathbed,
and in the meantime he became the
hero Of the most renowned military feat
of the war-the flank attack on Hook
er's army at Charlottesville.
Ii was no ordinary crisis that called
Jackson from his repOse, not even Tor
war. The Union army, led by Flight
ing Joe" Hooker, was crossing to the
stack. some miles distant from Lees
camps, intending to march around and
strike In the rear. 10 Outnumbered
Lees force two TO one IL was neces-
sary for Jackson 70 change front or
turn away from the river heights back
70 the interior, and while doing so to
still guard the heights. The Union
General wanted to get possession Of the
heights without fighting a bloody bat
tie on their slopes, and had taken
roundabout course to get the Conteder-
ates TO abandon them, Jackson con-
trolled four divisions OF about 10000
men. He knew that Hooker could
easily set apart 10000 or more out or
thesl2O, 900 men in blue to attempt the
heights on the river front while the re-
mainder assailed the Confederate rear,
and 30 he left one division tOdefend the
heights and with the other three hur-
ried westward to meet the main Union
columns. These had crossed north OF
Fredericksburg and had literally gone
around Lee.
Hooker had in fact set apart one
corps, the Sixth, under Sedgwlck, go
600 strong, TO cross at Fredericksburg
and offer direct attack, and on May l,
after two days of blOOdleSs maneuyer,
the situation was q deadlock. Neither
side would strike the opening blow for
fear OF getting the worst Of II. Jack
son had stationed one division on the
river heights facing eastward against
Sedgwick, and his other three divisions
lay across HOOker's pathway, five miles
in the interior, az a place called Ta0er-
ulElt AuUECus WIN udNhoNA eN NAAS
point were two divisions OF another
corps, led by Lee in person. HOOKer's
main body was strung out still 10 the
westward five miles from Ternacle
Church to Wilderness. One good road
leading 20 Fredericksburg intersected
both the Union and Confederate posi-
tions. Reference to the diagram will
show that the COnfederates were be-
tween the two Union fires on May 1.
On Nav , Hooker was between two Con-
federate fires, and on his sudden
reversal hangs StOnewalPs remarkable
fame.
On the morning of the Cd JacksOn's
three divisions disappeared from Tab
ernacle Church and started westward
across the long front Of HoOker's vast
army. The narrow space between Jack
sons route and HOOker'S outpOstS was
patroed by the watchful eyes Of Jeb
Stu8rt's troopers, In order that no
chance reconnaissance from the Union
lines should reveal the mysterious
march. Skillful guides were at the head
of the column 70 point out byrOadS and
concealed ways that would shorten the
distance and insure secrecy. At one
point the column ran into one of Hook
er's OutpoSts, q fight enSued, and the
movement of the Coniederates westward
was fairly disclosed and reported to I'm
ion headquarters. Jackson then turned
his column farther south TO avoid an
other collision and pressed on, making
a march of fifteen miles in all and
bringing up sQuareiy on Hooker's right
rear az Wilderness Church.