Chapter I: Front Matter

THE STORY OF A CANNONEER UNDER 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

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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

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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