. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . lize the condition of our troops after their successful chargeon Howard, writes General Colston. We had forced our waythrough brush so dense that the troops were nearly stripped of theiruniforms. Brigades, regiments, and companies had become so mixedthat they could not be handled; besides which the darkness of even-ing was so intensified by the shade of the dense woods that nothingcould be seen a few yards off. But General Jack
. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . lize the condition of our troops after their successful chargeon Howard, writes General Colston. We had forced our waythrough brush so dense that the troops were nearly stripped of theiruniforms. Brigades, regiments, and companies had become so mixedthat they could not be handled; besides which the darkness of even-ing was so intensified by the shade of the dense woods that nothingcould be seen a few yards off. But General Jackson was no man to relinquish an advantage oncegained. Black though the night might be, he proposed to continue thefight until the panic that had seized upon the Eleventh corps shouldextend to the entire Union army. To this end he was huntingforward fresh troops to take the places of those whose tattered anddemoralized condition General Colston has described. In his zeal tocarry this movement to success he galloped forward on one of theside roads, and passed the front of his own army. General, dont you think this is the wrong place for you? askedone of his LET US PASS OVER THE RIVER, AND REST UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES. DEATH OF JACKSON BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 185 The danger is all over—the enemy is routed! Go back andtell A. P. Hill to press right on. And so, his mind fixed on the progress of the battle, and whollyoblivious to his own position, Jackson continued his perilous ridebetween the hostile lines, until suddenly there came a volley from adark thicket; nearly all of Jacksons staff were killed, and the Generalhimself was desperately wounded. It was a detachment of Jacksons own troops that fired thisfatal volley. They saw horsemen coming from the direction of theenemys line and made sure it was a hostile force. Their volleywounded General Jackson with three bullets; three bones were broken,and an artery in his arm cut. With his gauntlet fast filling withb
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