The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-19

! tHc IIeHt. nc westward course was
continued until it brought the van,
with Tallcy guiding, to the Brock
roads leading northward to the Orange
road. TIP the Brock road Jackson
turned his column at uuickcnng step.
About whcrc Howard ; corps was
cooking meat and coffee and getting
ready for Il peaceful night, the Orange
road forks into the Orange pike and
the Orange plank road. The plank
road is south. After divcrging for
some distance the plank road runs
nearly parallel with the pike, with
distance Of mile or so between. As
his column moved along across these
two roads it executed movement
which brought it into position for
action almost without halting. Battle
lines were formed facing east From
marching northward in column, the
divisions, as fast as they reached the
pike and Tapped over faced to the
right and presented battle front.
| Tally says there we're. three lines, the
front in heavy skirmishing order, the
Others solid and heavy. There was
| hardly check in the movement. AS
the lines Of battle were formed the
men shed knapsacks in long rows and
went forward. a hill and several
strips of forest made up the mile
which separated Jackson in battle
formation from lloward's $ corps The
time was ) o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun was castin" long shadows as
Jackson ) lines went forward Most
| OF Howard men never got into posi-
ton to face the onset They were
caught upon the side and in the rear.
Regiment after regiment, brigade after
brigade was rolled up into the strug-
Cling mass as Jackson came on, and
was showed along eastward The
Orange road is OF generous width. It
was soon filed from side to side with
the panic stricken. The great roaring
mass moved down the road toward the
Chancellor mansion. threatening to
break the Twelfth corps into the same
confusion. Hooker saw the mass &c
fugitivcs coming, and with his staff
faced and charged it. Heroism of
officers gradually drew an organization
here and another there out of the
wreck. Lines were hurricily formed
across the road and in the fields and
woods facing Jackson. When the
Confcderatcs struck the right Of
Howard IN the beginning, Tallcy says,
there was no resistance. But the
progress of Jackson lines grew slower
and slower. The Confederatcs were
themselves thrown into confusion by
the woods and by the varying degrees
OF resistance encountered at different
parts Of the lines. Darkness came on.
Whether it was smoke or clouds. the
men who were there agree that the
night was inky. Subordinate officers
appeared to Jackson and urged halt
until morning, telling how exhausted
their men were and how impossible It
was to maintain t!!cir organization in
the confusion which had developed.
The word was given and Jackson s
men lay down to eat the supper
Howard S men had left behind and to
wait for morning.
Books have been written in the con-
trovcrsial efforts to explain the sur
prise and to locate the responsibility
for it. Tally lives on the road. His
fields are where Howards men we're
taking things easy. The Union SOL
diers had slaughtered cattle in the
morning, and were cooking the meat
for supper. AS the Confederates
came ur they speared great hunks Of
meat with their bayonets and carried
them along in the charge. The house
in which Talley now lives was the
headquarters OF Devens. Across the
road from Talley's is the Hawkins
house. where General Carl Schurz had
his headquarters. Hawkins vas at
home that day by no will of his own.
He had been made prisoner by Gen
eral Schurx. He heard the specula-
tions Of che Federal officers as the day
wore on. The officers had learned
that the Confederatcs were marching
down the Catharpen road, and they
interpreted it exactly as jackson and
Lee intended. They were sure it
meant retreat. And so they remained
in ignorance Of the Confederate plan.
It wasn't until half an hour before