The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson

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The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall?by Edward A. Moore

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Title: The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
Author: Edward A. Moore
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THE STORY OF A CANNONEER UNDER STONEWALL JACKSON
[Illustration: GENERAL "STONEWALL" JACKSON
FRONTISPIECE]
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
IN WHICH IS TOLD THE PART TAKEN BY THE ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
BY EDWARD A. MOORE Of the Rockbridge Artillery
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY CAPT. ROBERT E. LEE, JR., and HON. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER
Fully Illustrated by Portraits
NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1907
Copyright, 1907, by
E. A. MOORE

TO MY COMRADES
OF THE
ROCKBRIDGE ARTILLERY

CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction by Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr 13
Introduction by Henry St. George Tucker 15
I--Washington College--Lexington--Virginia Military Institute 19
II--Entering the Service--My First Battle--Battle of Kernstown 25
III--The Retreat--Cedar Creek--General Ashby--Skirmishes--McGaheysville 34
IV--Swift Run Gap--Reorganization of the Battery--Wading in the Mud--Crossing and Recrossing the Blue Ridge--Battle of McDowell--Return to the Valley 43
V--Bridgewater--Luray Valley--Front Royal--Following General Banks--Night March--Battle of Winchester--Banks's Retreat 52
VI--Capturing Federal Cavalry--Charlestown--Extraordinary March 60
VII--General Jackson Narrowly Escapes Being Captured at Port Republic--Contest Between Confederates and Federals for Bridge over Shenandoah 66
VIII--Battle of Port Republic 72
IX--From Brown's Gap to Staunton--From Staunton to Richmond--Cold Harbor--General Lee Visits His Son in the Battery 77
X--General Jackson Compliments the Battery--Malvern Hill--My Visit to Richmond 86
XI--From Richmond to Gordonsville--Battle of Cedar Run--Death of General Winder--Deserters Shot--Cross the Rappahannock 93
XII--Capture of Railroad Trains at Manassas Junction--Battle with Taylor's New Jersey Brigade--Night March by Light of Burning Cars 102
XIII--Circuitous Night March--First Day of Second Manassas--Arrival of Longstreet's Corps 110
XIV--The Second Battle of Manassas--Incidents and Scenes on the Battlefield 117
XV--Battle of Chantilly--Leesburg--Crossing the Potomac 125
XVI--Maryland--My Day in Frederick City 130
XVII--Return to Virginia--Investment and Capture of Harper's Ferry 138
XVIII--Into Maryland Again--Battle of Sharpsburg--Wounded--Return to Winchester--Home 144
XIX--Return to Army--In Winter-quarters Near Port Royal 161
XX--Second Battle of Fredericksburg--Chancellorsville--Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson 170
XXI--Opening of Campaign of 1863--Crossing to the Valley--Battle at Winchester with Milroy--Crossing the Potomac 179
XXII--On the Way to Gettysburg--Battle of Gettysburg--Retreat. 187
XXIII--At "The Bower"--Return to Orange County, Virginia--Blue Run Church--Bristow Station--Rappahannock Bridge--Supplementing Camp Rations 202
XXIV--Battle of Mine Run--March to Frederick's Hall--Winter-quarters--Social Affairs--Again to the Front--Narrow Escape from Capture by General Dahlgren--Furloughs--Cadets Return from New Market--Spottsylvania and the Wilderness--Return to Army at Hanover Junction--Panic at Night 212
XXV--Second Cold Harbor--Wounded--Return Home--Refugeeing from Hunter 222
XXVI--Personal Mention of Officers and Men--Rockbridge Artillery--Second Rockbridge Artillery 234
XXVII--Oakland--Return to Camp--Off Duty Again--The Race from New Market to Fort Gilmore--Attack on Fort Harrison--Winter-quarters on the Lines--Visits to Richmond 260
XXVIII--Evacuation of Richmond--Passing Through Richmond by Night--The Retreat--Battle of Sailor's Creek--Battle of Cumberland Church 274
XXIX--Appomattox 286
Appendix 293
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
General "Stonewall" Jackson Frontispiece
Captain William T. Poague, April, 1862--April, 1863 19
Gun from which was fired the first hostile cannon-shot in the Valley of Virginia 25
Robert A. Gibson 40
Edward A. Moore, March, 1862 60
John M. Brown (war-time portrait) 80
William M. Willson (Corporal) 98
W. S. McClintic 120
D. Gardiner Tyler 140
R. T. Barton 158
B. C. M. Friend 180
Edward A. Moore, February, 1907 200
Edward H. Hyde (Color-bearer) 220
Randolph Fairfax 240
Robert Frazer 260
John M. Brown 280
Fac-simile of parole signed by General Pendleton 291

PREFACE
More than thirty years ago, at the solicitation of my kinsman, H. C. McDowell, of Kentucky, I undertook to write a sketch of my war experience. McDowell was a major in the Federal Army during the civil war, and with eleven first cousins, including Gen. Irvin McDowell, fought against the same number of first cousins in the Confederate Army. Various interruptions prevented the completion of my work at that time. More recently, after despairing of the hope that some more capable member of my old command, the Rockbridge Artillery, would not allow its history to pass into oblivion, I resumed the task, and now present this volume as the only published record of that company, celebrated as it was even in that matchless body of men, the Army of Northern Virginia.
E. A. M.

INTRODUCTION BY CAPT. ROBERT E. LEE, JR.
The title of this book at once rivets attention and invites perusal, and that perusal does not disappoint expectation. The author was a cannoneer in the historic Rockbridge (Va.) Artillery, which made for itself, from Manassas to Appomattox, a reputation second to none in the Confederate service. No more vivid picture has been presented of the private soldier in camp, on the march, or in action. It was written evidently not with any commercial view, but was an undertaking from a conviction that its