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

Run Church—Bristow Station—Rappahannock Bridge—Supplementing Camp Rations —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 —Second Cold Harbor—Wounded—Return Home—Refugeeing from Hunter —Personal Mention of Officers and Men—Rockbridge Artillery—Second Rockbridge Artillery —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 —Evacuation of Richmond—Passing Through Richmond by Night—The Retreat—Battle of Sailor's Creek—Battle of Cumberland Church —Appomattox Appendix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS General "Stonewall" Jackson Captain William T. Poague, April, 1862—April, 1863 Gun from which was fired the first hostile cannon-shot in the Valley of Virginia Robert A. Gibson Edward A. Moore, March, 1862 John M. Brown (war-time portrait) William M. Willson (Corporal) W. S. McClintic D. Gardiner Tyler R. T. Barton B. C. M. Friend Edward A. Moore, February, 1907 Edward H. Hyde (Color-bearer) Randolph Fairfax Robert Frazer John M. Brown Fac-simile of parole signed by General Pendleton 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