Posted on 05/02/2017 1:53:27 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
During the battle of Chancellorsville three Confederate Infantry divisions, under the command of General Thomas J. Jackson, launched a crushing attack on the right flank of General Oliver O. Howard's XI Corp. The attack pushed General Howard's men back a mile and a quarter. Later in the Evening, General Jackson and his staff were fired on by troops of their own army. Jackson was his three time. He would die 8 days later from complications from his wounding
Fragged.
Do you have a link?
No, the North Carolina infantry, in the darkness, mistook Jackson and his staff for Yankee cavalry which had been seen in the area.
A classic case of friendly fire.
no.
His death was the beginning of the end of America.
My GGrandfather was there.
Perry’s Brigade, 8th Florida.
The house Stonewall died in with the original bed and blankets is a mueasum run by the National Park Service.
“Let us cross the river and rest under the shade of the trees...”
I have been to it. It not very fancy but very informative.
How so?
It’s been said by many that General Jackson would have recognized the upcoming great error of Gettysburg and urged Lee to avoid the battle. I tend to agree.
Oh what could have happened if this man had lived, at least for another year?
His death sent Lee into a conundrum with leadership choices.
My GGGGrandfather was there too. Led the assault with the 4th NC Infantry, Ramsuers Brigade, Doles Division.
If Stonewall had survived to serve at Gettysburg, I doubt Lee would have pursued the path he did and made that Pickett’s Charge. Stonewall wouldn’t have let him.
They took Jackson’s amputated left arm and gave it a burial near the house.
There is a small monument there that can be seen from the road.
The last time I was through there, over 20 years ago, the monument was in a corn field.
I’m sorry that was Rodes Division
I met with some member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans at a gun show in Savannah.
I mentioned that I had 3 GGrandfathers in the 1st, 6th and 8th Florida Brigades plus another who was a Methodist Minister at the Doctortown Confederate Camp in Georgia.
I also said I did not know much about them. They told me that I should be proud of them as Lee considered the Florida brigades as his “Spartans”.
Actually there is a mistake there somewhere as I only had 4 GGrandfathers and I know one also served in the 18th Alabama. Maybe one was a Great Uncle.
I like this quote “Kill ‘em, Kill ‘em all.”
If he had been fragged a year earlier, a lot of good men would not have died. Jackson was a very disturbed individual.
“At the Virginia Military Institute where he taught, Jackson was nicknamed “Tom Fool” because of his personal eccentricities, which included sucking on lemons to ease the discomfort of what he thought was an ulcer. Students and colleagues thought of him as a dull professor who rarely smiled, but when he found something funny, he would throw his head back and let out a frightening roar. Throughout his life, he struggled to overcome the belief that his body was somehow “out of balance,” and that the only way to correct this was to remain in a rigid, upright position so that his organs remained aligned on top of one another. For this reason, he rarely sat in chairs, preferring to keep his posture erect when standing, lying straight in bed, or on horseback. In battle, he often charged with one gloved hand held high over his head, allowing the blood to flow down into his body to establish equilibrium.” http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-many-demons-of-stonewall-jackson.html
At first, the Confederate leadership was able to downplay his bizarre behavior because he was willing to drive his troops mercilessly in hopeless campaigns against the numerous invading Northerners. And who can blame them considering the futile nature of their conflict?
His laggardly performance behavior at First Manassas had been largely forgotten. That he stood his command on a hill behind the battle line, while the rest of army fought in front of him, was cleverly re-scripted into a tale of him “standing like a “stone wall” a rallying the hard-pressed Southern forces.
But the final straw for the men under his command was when word leaked out over his unnatural attraction to six year old Janie Corbin during the winter of 1862. It was more than any decent Southerner could stomach.
The “friendly fire” story was disseminated in order to keep up morale.
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