Identifier: wearingofgrayb00cook (find matches)
Title: Wearing of the gray; being personal portraits, scenes and adventures of the war
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat & Co. Baltimore, J.S. Morrow, (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ly disap-peared when a sudden volley was fired from the Confederateinfantry in Jacksons rear, and on the right of the road—evi-dently directed upon him and his escort. The origin of this firehas never been discovered, and after Jacksons death there waslittle disposition to investigate an occurrence which occasionedbitter distress to all who by any possibility could have takenpart in it. It is probable, however, that some movement of theFederal skirmishers had provoked the fire; if this is an error,the troops fired deliberately upon Jackson and his party, underthe impression that they were a body of Federal cavalry recon-noitring. It is said that the men had orders to open upon anyobject in front, especially upon cavalry; and the absence ofpickets or advance force of any kind on the Confederate sideexplains the rest. The enemy were almost in contact with them;the Federal artillery, fully commanding the position of the troops,was expected to open every moment; and the men were just in
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Jacksons death-wound. 301 that excited condition which induces troops to fire at any andevery object they see. Whatever may have been the origin of this volley, it came,and many of the staff and escort were shot, and fell from theirhorses. Jackson wheeled to the left and galloped into the woodsto get out of range of the bullets; but he had not gone twentysteps beyond the edge of the turnpike, in the thicket, when oneof his brigades drawn up within thirty yards of him fired a vol-ley in their turn, kneeling on the right knee, as the flash of theguns showed, as though prepared to guard against cavalry.By this fire Jackson was wounded in three places. He receivedone ball in his left arm, two inches below the shoulder-joint, shat-tering the bone and severing the chief artery; a second passedthrough the same arm between the elbow and the wrist, makingits exit through the palm of the hand ; and a third ball enteredthe palm of his right hand, about the middle, and passing throughbroke two of

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