The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-08-01
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hErL Ell IN LILO SAODLh.
most famous regiments of the old
Stonewall brigade. He enlisted in it at
the time of it's organization by Chief Of
Police Wheat. afterward it's colonel, of
New Orleans.
Rosenthal says there Is but one sur
vivor besides himself of the picket
guard that fired upon Jackson. He is
S. Solomon. jeweler Of Macon, with
whom Rosenthal keeps up correspond
ence.
Here is RosenthaPs story of the kill
ing Of Jackson and the part he may
have played in 1T:
The incidents Of that awful night are
that shall never forget even the
slightest detail of them If live so long
as to forget everything else.
1t all happened after we had sur
prised Towards division Of Hooker's
command on Chancellor's farm through
one of those mastery movements from
Jackson and cut it to pieces, driving
the fleeing Fedefals heller SHELTER
through woods thereabouts.
| We followed them until we ran upon
Hooker's main command, and then the
halt was ordered We had accom-
plished the surprise shortly after 6
O'Clock on the afternoon of May 2,
1868, and the pursuit had lasted for
probably three hours. 1t was between
8 and 10 O'Clock when we drew up for
| rest.
The order went around from General
| Jackson that aS'the enemy was within
cannon shot nobody was to be allowed
to pass through our lines, countersign
or no countersign. This order, howev-
countersgn, 81 don't know" had been
agreed upon and communicated to the
various STATS and picket details.
| l, with 20 other members of the Lou
isiana Tigers, was sent out upon the
picket lines. The moon was at the full
and the night was ideal, save for it's
| penetrating dampness. From our posi-
| ton in the woods we saw a body of
men riding along our lines
| 1 gave the challenge, with the usual
order to advance and give the counter
sign.
81 don't known rang out clearly up
on the night air.
Then the men started to ride through
our lines.
The order had been made. 1t was i'm
perative-nobody should pass through
our lines. countersign or no counter
| sign.
AS the men started to spur their
horses into our line nine of us fired
along the picket lines. A man from
Jackson's staff ran up and said we had
shot our commander.
| Then each man sent up prayer to
God that he be spared the knowledge
that he had been the slayer of his gen.
eral If he should be the one who had
fired the fatal bullet.
| But three Of the nine bullets hit their
mark, two of them in the left shoulder
and the third in the right hand.
| Nine bullets and but three Of them
effectivei
Surely that was an answer to our
prayer. The identity Of the men who
had fred the three bullets that went
true to their mark must ever be unset
| tied.
Who killed Jackson must ever be an
unanswerable question, a riddle that
even time could not unravel. There
was some solace In that. Each assured
himself that he had not done the deed,
his wish being father to his thought.
But doubt Is worse than conviction,
however bad the latter may be. Only
one of the balls that struck General
Jackson made wound that necessi-
tated amputation. II 1t had not struck
him, there is no doubt that he would
have survived that great day.
The angle at which the bullet that
made that wound struck, together with
other circumstances, has haunted me
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