OF STONEWALL JACKSON: FROM OFFICIAL PAPERS, CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES, AND BY A VIRGINIAN. John Esten Cooke "I have just received your note, informing me that you were wounded. I cannot express LEE 10 JACKSON, at Chancellorsville. REPRINTED FROM ADVANCE SHEETS OF THE RICHMOND EDITION. NEW YORK: CHARLES B. RICHARDSON, 596 BROADWAY. Reess Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, BY CHARLES B. RICHARDSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. ПMIA OL RENNIE, SHEA & LINDSAY, R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, 81,83 & 85 CENTRE-ST. TO THE READER. THIS work has been written under disadvantages which entitle it to the liberal criticism of the reader. It was undertaken without thought of the probable activity of the summer campaign, and has been composed in bivouacby the road-side-immediately before and after engagements-amid scenes and under circumstances which have rendered deliberate writing impossible. This, and my inability to correct the proof-sheets, should excuse, the errors of the work. All that I claim for the narrative is truth. This I think it possesses, and the merit is not trifling.. Beyond its value as an accurate statement of events, derived in the main from official documents, I claim nothing for it-style least of all. A religious paper has made an incredibly violent and insulting attack upon the work and the author, while the former was in press and the latter absent in the field. To this attack I have no abusive epithets to utter in reply. The good people of the South shall judge between us. Some of the material of this sketch is original; but the matter illustrating the official reports has been chiefly drawn from contemporary publications. A considerable number of these slips, some of them very interesting and 227192 |