The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-23

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God 1t is Gen. Jackson p The Gen
eral became quite weak, but next day
he was taken to Guinea's Station. on
the R. +. and P. R. R., where he died
Sunday, May 10, 1863. His death
was really caused by pneumonia,
superinduced by cold, contracted on
the night Of May 1, by sleeping on
the ground without covering, having
declined to use either the proffered
coat or cape Of his faithful adjutant.
Gen. Lee was greatly distressed at
the wounding Of Gen. Jackson, and
suffered anguish over his death. He
declared that /" regretted it was not
God will thai he could be lost to the
army instead of Jackson.
The loss of Stonewall Jackson to
the Confederate army was irreparable,
and the first evidence Of it was the
failure at Gettysburg two months
later, up to which time the Federal
armies in Virginia had known nothing
but severe defeats, excepting Sharps-
burg, Nd, q drawn battle.
Lee, Jackson, A. P. Hill and Stuart,
together with the valor of their men,
were invincible.
The contemplation of some events,
during and subsequent to the battle OF
Charlottesville, coupled as they
seemed to be with the irony of fate, is
full of sadness.
A strange fatality pursued the gen.
eral officers of superior rank or station
who were under Jackson in that bat
tie.
Gallant Paxton, commanding the
Stonewall brigade, was killed there.
Hill, GLORIOUS A. P. Hill,'' last on
the dying lips of Jackson, and then Of
Lee, wounded, and disabled immedi-
atcly after Jackson, commanded in his
stead, and all the fruits of Jackson s
success would probably have been
reaped by him before the next sunrise.
Gen. Hill fell at Petersburg, Va,
April 2, 1865, as lieutenant general and
corps commander, next to the immor-
tai Lee himself, in the confidence and
affections of the Army Of Northern
Virginia. His death occurred just
one week before the surrender at Ap-
pomattox. Matchless A. P. Hill,
successor of matchless Stonewall jack
son, his prototype
Some condolences exist concerning
these two illustrious Virginian sol
diers, which, Of themselves, may seem
meaningless, yet they are strange and
singular.
Each of them illustrated the sub
limest type Of the infantry general.
Hill commanded division under
Jackson and was his next in rank,
but, strangely enough, although each
was model of all thatis manly, brave
and noble, their relations were sorely
strained for months, antedating the
battle of Charlottesville, but just
before it Gen. Lee effected perfect
reconciliation between them, and on
that fatal and bloody field Hill sue
cored Jackson as beloved friend.
It may also be worthy Of remark
that while the presence Of Jackson at
Gettysburg, according to Gen. Lee,
would have insured him a great vic
tory, the only signal success at Get
tysburg-the battle foug ght on the first
day-was due to A. P. Hill.
jackson was born in 1923, and died
in 1863, in his 10th year. Hill was
born in 1926 and died in 1865, in his
10th year. They were cadets at West
Point, and graduated, Jackson in 1916,
and Hill in 1847. Both we're commits
stoned second lieutenants Of artillery,
and both served during the war with
Mexico, winning brevets for meritori-
GUS service. Both entered the Con-
federate army in April, 1861, as col
onels of Virginia infantry regiments ;
both rose by merit to the rank Of
lieutenant general; both gave their
lives at the most critical crises OF
their country's fate, and as an evil
.dence Of their exalted places in the
love and veneration Of their country
men, pedestrian statues of each, in
imperishable bronze have been erected
in the historic city Of Richmond, Va,
in the defence Of which both fell.
Both Jackson and Hill, in their fre-
quent engagements, led the men from
Maryland and proudly acknowledged
their splendid yalor and soldiery
qualities, fighting under Elzey, Trim
Bile, Stuart and johnson, all princely
general officers, the whole phalanx in
fused with the spirit Of 1776, and very
many of them descendants Of the
patriots of that Revolutionary period.
Bradley johnson, colonel command
ing the Maryland line of the Confed-
eracy, had under him probably thirty
cousins, descendants Of Washington s
men.
Peerless j. Il. B. Stuart, matchless
cavalier, commanding the cavalry A.
N. ", succeeded Jackson at Chancel-
lorsville and fought his corps through
the Wilderness the next day, Sunday,
May 3, singing in his rollicking way,
as he led and charged
"Old Joe Hooker, won't you como out of
the Wilderness
Major Gen. Stuart fell, at the age
of 81, at the Yellow Tavern, six miles
from Richmond, May II, 1864, where,
summarized by Bradley johnson, with
the Maryland Cavary and Baltimore
Light Infantry. Stuart, with force
of less than 1000, threw himself in
front OF Sheridan with 5000 Federal
cavalry and artillery, and defeated his
purpose, dash into Richmond.
Brave and chiyalrous Rhodes, whose
brigade first struck the enemy at Chan
cellorsyillc, winning for the comman-
der a major Generals wreath, so re-
commended by Jackson on his death
bed, and, too, splendid and cver-faith-
full "Sandy" Pendleton, adjutant
general of Jackson's I'd corps, both
fell at Winchester, Va, September 10,
1864, under Gen. Fairly.
Serving as staff officers in Jackson s
corps at Charlottesville we're two
gallant Baltimoreans, who were killed
in that battle-Major W. Duncan Nc
Kim and Lieut.. Alfred Hoffman.
Gen. Lee himself (as was not un-
common with him) was necessarily
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