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

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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