The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-03
FOUND AMONG THE PaIVATES.
BY J. l. STRAIN.
Chapter XIII.

In continuing my :niscential
chit-chat reproduce from an old
bclimmed and mutilated copy of the
Ri,hnond Examiner of May 13,
1861, an account tf the wnunding
and death of Genl J. E. B. Stuart,
VII ch no d ubt our readers will ap-
preciate, 1t says:
"Major General j. E. B. Stuart,
tie m ,del Of Virginia cavalries, tue
da>hing chieftain, whose name was
a terror to the enemy, and familiar
as u ho 'sehold word in two conti-
nents is dead, struck down by bul.
let fcom dastardly foe, and the
whole Confederacy m ourrs him. lie
brealhrd out hls gallant spirit ru-
signedly, and in fu'l possession of
all his remarkable faculties of mind
AID body, ut twenty-five minutes to
eight o'clock. Thursday night, at the
residence of DR.. Brewer, relati. g.
on Grace street, in the presence of
Drs. Brewer, Garnett, Gibson and
Fountaine, of his staff; Rev. Mess~s.
Peterkin and Kepler, and circle of
sorrow stricken comrades and friends.
eve learn from the physicians in
attendance upon the General that
his condition during the day was
very changeable, with occasional de-
lerium, and other unmistakable symp-
toms of speedy dissolution. 10 the
moments of delirium the Generals
mind wandered, and like the immor-
tai Jackson (whose spirit VIC trust
lis has joined) in the lay Sc of reason
his faculties were busted with the
details of his command. lie review.
ed, in broken sentences, all his glori,
Gus campaigns around McCleIlan's
rear on the Peninsula, beyond the
Potomac, and upon the Rapidau,
quoting his orders and issuing new
ones to his couriers, with last in
junction to make haste
about noon, Thursday, Presi-
dent Davis visited his bedside, and
spent some fifteen minutes in the
chamber of his dying favorite chief.
tain. The President, taking his
hand, said, General, how d. you
fce'?' He replied, Easy, but willing
to die, if God and my country think
/ have fulfilled my destiny and done
my duty AS the evening ap.
preached, the Generals delirium in
creased, and his mind again wander
ed to the battlefields, over which he
had fought, then off to his wife and
children, and eff again to the front.
A telegraphic message had been sent
to his wife, who was in the country,
n h the injunction to make all haste
as the General was dangerously
wounded. Some thoughtless, bu,
Unauthorized person, thinking prof.
ably to spare his wife pain altered
the dispatch to Slightly wounded
and it was thus she received it, and
did not make that haste which she
otherwise would have done to reach
his side.
"As evening wore on the paroxy-
SINS of pain increased, and mortiGca-
ton set in rapidly. Though suffer-
ing the greatest agony at times, the
General was calm, and applied to
the wound, with his own hand, the
ice intended to relieve the pain.
During the evening he asked DR..
Brewer how long he thought he could
live, and whether it was possible for
him to survive through the night.
The dsctor, knowing he did not like
to be buoyed by false hopes, told
him frankly that death, the last
enemy, was fast approaching. The
General nodded and said, Il am re.
signed if it be God will; but would
like to s;e my wife. But Gods will
be done Several times he reused
up and asked if she had come.
ITO tho doctor, who sat holding
his wrist, and counting the feeting,
weakening pulse, he remarked: Doc
tor, suppose I am going fast now.
1t will so IN be over. But Gods
will be done. l hope have full
filled my destiny to my country and
my duty to my God
''At half past seven o'clock it was
evident to the physicians that death
was setting its clammy seal upon the
brave, open brow of the General, and