The citizen., 1913-06-20
HOW STONEWALL JACKSON
DIED.

eral of the Confederacy, died fifty years
| ago on May 10th. as the result OF
wounds received at the battle of Chan
cellorsville, May 2nd, 1868. In the con-
fusion ofthe battle and falling dusk he was
shot down by the southern troops The
story is most graphically told by Mary
! Johnston lii her novel, THE Long Roll"
The moon was coming up. She sill
vered the wilderness about DowdalPs
Tavern. She made pallor about the
group of staff and field officers gathered
beside the road. Her light glinted on
/ Stonewall Jackson's saber and on the
worn braid Of his old forage cap.
The clamor about Charlottesville,
where, in hot haste, Hooker made his
dispositions, streamed east and west,
meeting and blending with, westward, a
like distraction of forming commands, of
battle lines made in the darkness and
among the thickets. The moon was
high, but not observed. Behind HIM
| Captain Wilbourne. of the Signal Corps,
two aides and several couriers. Jackson
rode along the plank road.
There was a regiment drawn across
this way through the wilderness, on the
road, and in the woods. on either hand.
In places in the wilderness the scrub that
fearlulv burned the next day and the
next was even now aiire, and gave,
! though uncertainty and dmly, Il certain
illumination. By 1t the regiment was
perceived. It seemed composed of tall
%ld SnadGWy 81 men. N,'7l troops arc
lanes North Car1llnians, sir, the
Eighteenth.
As he passed the regiment started to
1Gl,,t ,,,,,, w, ',,...,t l,,,;.+ ,o,,,,
A fsu, bund,.d ,,rde from CbarceI-
1o,e,ilI, h. che. ,-.f lille Corr4I The
bnrse ,fo,d ,,..II his ,or, fssi planted
I1,rse ana rid., ,5a,, Stood and |sf5nrd
HooEers S % rege-v,s e 'S were 915q Up @ AEogt III.
Cb,,,..,,r tI,1sa an th.. rhaur.Il3r,.
Ti..a Ri.I~. t1,y v.ra fhr,g.in5 M in
,r4achmen,s ,rnev we're d.oaiY- M ,he
1sr,5 v,th tbeir bsvanafs md tben
beanina if mn with thrir hands
aiong th,. mani, roa5 towards his own
had sunEan The cannon srask- floating
in the air in III. very thick woods. made
All ,hiuos obscure
Stonewau Ia-ksor came towards the
North C4rolinians. He rode quickly
Dast Tie dar, Shell ~ a house sunl,rn
amon. the pine, There were with him
seven or eignt persons. The hotsrs'
boofs made trau',r.aq on the plaui,
road. The woods te.c deep. and the
obscurity was great Suddenly out Of
the brrsh rane a shot. an accidentally
DISCHARGED vile. some erav soldiers
among Lane, tensey awaiting ranks
spoke from the core of a fearful dream:
Yankee cayalry!'
"tirc.' called ain o.hcar OF the. El2h-
teenth Norih Carolina
The voIey striking diaeonally across
The road. emptjed several saddles.
StonewaIl Jackson the aids and VIII
bourne wheeled TO the lett dug spurs,
and would have plunged into the road
,,Flre!' sa d the CaroI'qanS dressed to
thc lett ol the road, and iited.
Little Sorrel, maddened, dashed INTO
'hg wood an OAK oough struck MS
1der, almost bearln9 him from the sad
die. Nlth ms rIght hand, from wihch
ihee, hlood was streaming N Wh''h a
bn'iet was lmbedded, ne caught the
brldle, pc managed 10 tuin lhe a@onized
bfn'e mo ''e ROAD aga'n' lheTe seem-
cu VIA sound a CONFUSION oI Po'ceS'
9o,ne one aaq stopped me IHinS'
Mvv zoo, men! Aou are iF'nS ln'o
Us. IN me road were Tue aideS. lheV
cau&ht 'he feinS ana stopped me morse;
Nl'hpNfne pnt UP ms arms. General.