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direction of the firing line calling upon them to
stop firing, which effected, he returned to the
side of his wounded chief, where he found Captain
Wilboiirne and Mr. Winn. Gen. A. P. Hill soon
came up and, dismounting, he bent over the offi-
cer and asked: " General, are you much hurt? "
and received the reply, "Yes, general, I think I
am; and all my wounds were from my own men.
I believe my arm is broken; it gives me severe
pain."' He received temporary surgical aid from
Dr. Barr, who happened to be near at hand.
Finding the position they occupied dangerous, as
shot and shell fell on every side, his attendants
heli>ed him to walk to the highway, when a
Federal battery was unlimbered and planted so
as to sweep the spot, and he was protected by
the bodies of his escort while hurrying him to
the rear. Meeting General Pender, of North Car-
olina, he said: " You must hold your ground,
General Pender, you must hold your ground,
sir," the last order given by Stonewall Jack-
son. Growing faint by the exertions to get out
of the firing line, he was placed on a litter
and in struggling through the thicket his face
was scratched and his clothing torn and once
he fell from the litter, a bearer being shot
in the arm. He was carried in an ambulance to
the hospital and on Sunday morning he had suf-
ficiently rested to undergo an examination by
Surgeons McGuire, Black, Walls and Coleman,
In the afternoon, news of the disaster that was
meeting the Confederate army, and the incapa-
city of General Hill from his wounds, was brought
to him by General Pendleton, who also had a
message from Stuart to his chief, asking what to
do. Jackson revived, asked several questions in
rapid succession and ti'ied to collect histhouglits,
but replied sadly: "I don't know, I can't tell;
say to General Stuart he must do what he thinks
best."' Soon after he slept for several hours and
the next day was free from pain and asked that
his wife be sent for. On receipt of a letter from
General Lee expressing himself pained to learn
of his wounds and adding: " Could I have directed
events I should have chosen for the good of the
country to have been disabled in your stead. I
congratulate you upon the victory which is due
to your skill and energy," Jackson said, " General
Lee should give the praise to God." He was
removed to Mr. Chandler's house at Guiney's
Station, Tuesday. His wife and child arrived
on Thursday. His last words, apparently to his
wife, were " Let us cross over the river and rest
under the shade of the trees." Of hia fidelity to
the cause tiiat he espoused it is said: " From the
time he entered the army at the beginning of the
war he never asked or received a furlougli, was
never absent from duty for a single day, whetiier
sick or well, and never slept one night outside
the lines of his command." The Louisiana divi-
sion of the Army of Northern Virginia erected an
imposing statue to his memory in Metairie ceme-
tery, New Orleans, La., in 1S81. One figure on the
soldier's m<jnument at Augusta, Ga., represents
General Jackson; a statue by J. H. Foley, R. A.,
executed in London, was erected in Richmond,
Va., and unvuiled, Oct. 2G, ISTG: "England's
Tribute to Virginia Valor"'; and a bronze statue
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of heroic size executed by Edward V. Valentine
was placed over the dust of the hero in the ceme-
tery in Lexington, Va. It was unveiled, July 21,
1891, the thirtieth anniversary of the first bat-
tle of Manassas. The granite pedestal bears the
words " Stonewall Jackson, 1824-18G:5." In the
selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame
for Great Amerieans made in October, 1900, his
was one of the twenty names in " Class N, Sol-
diers and Sailors," and received twenty -three
votes, the same number received by Decatur and
Sheridan and exceeded only by the votes given
Grant, Farragut and Lee who secured places in
the class, and by Greene, Perry and Thomas, who
received twentj'-nine, twenty-six and twenty-four
votes respectively. See Memoirs of Sfoneirall
Jackson by his widow, Mary Anna Jackson (1895).
He died at Guiney's Station, Va., May 10, 18G3.
JACKSON, William, secretary of the Federal convention, 1787, was born in Cumberland, Eng- land, March 9, 1759. He was early left an orphan and sent to Charleston, S.C., where his guardian. Col. Owen Roberts, directed his education. He became a lieutenant in the 1st South Carolina regiment in June, 1775, a captain in 1779, and as aide-de-camp to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, with the rank of major, was in the engagement at Stono Ferry, June 20, 1779. He shared in General Lin- coln's defeat at Savamiah, Oct. 9, 1779, and was taken prisoner at the British capture of Charleston, May 12,1780. In February, 1781, he was exchanged and soon went with John Laurens as his secretary to France, to ol)tain money and supplies for the country. On his return the same year he became aide-de-camp to Washington, with the rank of major, and still later in 1781 was appointed as- sistant secretary of war under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. He resigned in 1783, was in Europe in 1783-84, and on his return was admitted to the bar in 1788. He was elected secretary of the con-
