Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-06-19
Inc Story of Cannoneer Under
StOnewaII Jackson

|""uohoer Onuer NtOneWaII JACK
If. son." by Mr.. Edward A. Moore O
ny Lexington, who was memb Der o
"ie the Rockbridge Artillery. TIL
he purpose of the author is to- pre-
ry serve in enduring form the storI
OF the part taken by the Rock
e bridge Artillery In the Army o.
- Northern Virginia. The volume
IN geographically is one of unusua
L. beauty. with best of buckram cloth
G. binding and cover decorations
u in gold. There ale numerous H.
- Illustrations, which add greatly to
Ie The interest OF the book, including
3 an excellent likeness cf StonewalI
J. jackson as the frontispiece, and
photographs of the author, Mr..
Edward A. Moore, Colonel William
o L. Pcague and the gun from
which was fired the first hostile
!, cannon-shot in the Valley of Vir-
. ginla. This gun is now in pcs-
!. session Of the Virginia Military
g Institute and Captain David +.
Moore, brother of the uthor, fire
the shot. IL was in Jackson's first
engagement, at HainesvilIe, near
, Martinsbi rg, row West Virginia,
on July 2, 1861.
Productions to the book ore
written by CAPTAIN Robert T.. Lee.
who was himself for nearly yer
q member of the battery, and who |
says: mo more vivid picture
has been presented Of the private
soldier in camp, o. the march or
in action" aud by Hon. Henry
st. George Tucker, who traces the
the ancestry of the author back to
the time between 1740 and 1850
when nine Moore brothers emigrat.
ed from the north of Ireland to
America.
The story of the book opens
with the spring of 1861. 1T
Washington College books are
thrown aside. Over the main
building floats palmetto flag the I
students have hoisted. A class
enters for recitation. The presi i
dent, Union man, asks If the
dag is still flying. eyes, Mr.. v
President" the boys answer a
gravely, frightened but loyal;
"yes, Mr.. President, it is" "The v
class is dismissed retorts the \
president. | will never hear
recitation under a traitors Aagi" y
/ ne boys gather in groups in g
the halls, on the campus. The
hoys from the Virginia Military b,
Institute join them. They talk o.
earnestly, excitedly, with gesture
and defamation. In an hour they r
are men, for war is the BUSINESS of, N
men. The RockbIidge Artillery
is organized. They drill day and W
night. 1t is war and they a:e n
going to fight and win fame ard
the crimson of it al! -
Then follows the description of NJ
Major jackson, Afterwards the -
great "Stonewall', marsballng Y,
lis cadets on beautiful Sunday n;
n May, 1861, to march to battle.
they march away, these splen- ~,
lid boys with unfaltering ""
and for four years follow ~
'rivations, and weary marches; ",
ears of high hopes, glcry, defeat,
each to Tany,untll Sunday morn. m
ng, April 9, 1865, when the little 49, -"
illage of Appomattox was entered ~
nth two guns by members of this ,,,
artery. ""
Between those two Sunday morn. va
lgs-the brilliant and inspiring w
oys of 81 and the tired end hope va va
SO men OF '65-stretched four M p"
oble and pathetic years. This :,
announcer has told the story OF 'e'
lese years in clear, diret t, sold 'o vi
r way, like man who realizes -
lie importance Of what he relates; WIZ
I'D it GENEROUSLY and sympathet. =
ally, like man to whom life is ~
larger thing than any one man, ral
'perience; told it in detail ind u
order, like man who would VIII
nvince by stating the truth as he va.
W it, and all Of that truth. u
And, rendering to all their dues, lex
nor to whom honor, lie has in for
lded in his narrative complete u
II Of the Ulcers and men of the VIII
mpahY and of thei" records. 1t w.
fitting that this roll be giver a Ca
eminent place and form la burg
lich it can he pre-: erved and re. Lynn
red to, ana such place and Ca
m he has given it. Va,
1t is history and romance, in. more
uctiOn and delight, chronicle Ca
q o picture gall nv. To read il TenI
10 know a iovable1 and brave rentC
dIery,. command that proved Ca
mettle in twenty three engage with
nts, company worthy its H.: ton.
ra ton. its strength md its Ca
o. ever NStOnewaIl" jackson. with
7 he took is from TIE pre,s of wood
Nes Publishing Co. of New Ca'
* and Washington ard is sold with
~ 90 per VI lure. burg,
,Olored Good Order League I
he rsgulur monthly meeting of CHI