. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rff// ^Yithin an hour after Jack-sons sudden and deadlycharge, his men capturedDowdalls Tavern. HereHoward, commander of theEleventh Corps, now fleeingbefore the Confederate rush,was holding his headquar-ters when the blow fell. Thetrenches in the picture be-low were the goal in a racebetween Jacksons men andthe men of Williamss Fed-eral division. This had beensent to support Sickles andtried too late to recover the position that it had left, unaware ofthe Confederate flanking movement. Jackson captured twohimdred men of the One Hu
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . rff// ^Yithin an hour after Jack-sons sudden and deadlycharge, his men capturedDowdalls Tavern. HereHoward, commander of theEleventh Corps, now fleeingbefore the Confederate rush,was holding his headquar-ters when the blow fell. Thetrenches in the picture be-low were the goal in a racebetween Jacksons men andthe men of Williamss Fed-eral division. This had beensent to support Sickles andtried too late to recover the position that it had left, unaware ofthe Confederate flanking movement. Jackson captured twohimdred men of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Pennsyl-vania as they tried to get to their places. Williams after fallingback finally checked the Confederates, aided by Barry of theThird Corps and fresh artillery. As night fell, Jackson withhis staff ventured on his last reconnaissance. The picture on the. D()WD.\LLS right shows the tangled woodthrough which he passedand the fury of the fire thatlopped oft the stunted a fatal mischance,some Confederates sta-tioned along the road tothe north of this spot firedupon what they thoughtto be a Federal scoutingparty—and there mortallywounded their own had turned backalong the road itself, andhis men had orders to fire upon any advance from the Federal position. The next day,with a cry of Remember Jackson! the line in gray againswept forward, and by nine in the morning had carrieil therude breastworks in the left-hand picture. Hooker withdrewhis entire army. Yet the Confederate victory lacked the com-pleteness that would have been expected with Jackson in thesaddle; and the Confederacy had lost one of its greatest caiitains.
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