Wearing of the Gray; being personal portraits, scenes and adventures of the War

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WEARING OF THE GRAY X^-^^-^7 /tA c^-T^^^rr 0-1^,. Sn^ravedSxpnssij'far'WiaziRfi^ihe Cixf£,B.lfxat& Co. lub lister? 654>Bn>ad»«y, N. Y WEARING OF THE GRAY; BEING PERSONAL PORTRAITS, SCENES AND ADVENTURES OF THE WAR. By JOHN ESTEN COOKE, FORMERLY OF GENERAL STUART's STAFF, AND AUTHOR OF " SURRY OF EAGLE'S NEST," "STONEWALL JACKSON," ETO. "The blessed and over-glorious dead are not here to defend their memories from the taint of the reproach of rebellion and treason. Alas I I am alive and here, and am bound at every hazard to declare that these men were no rebels and no traitors . . . that they were pure patriots, loyal citizens, well tried and true soldiers, brave, honest, devoted men, who proved their faith in their principles by the deaths which canonized them immortal heroes and martyrs."

Henry A. Wiss. NEW YORK: E. B. TREAT & CO., 654 BROADWAY. BALTIMORE, MD. : J. S. MORROW. NEW ORLEANS, LA.: J. H. HUMMEL. NASHVILLE. TENN. : A. S. KIMZEY. LOUISVILLE, KY. : F. I. DIBBLE. ST. LOUIS, MO. : I. S. BRATNARD. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. : H. H. BANCROFT 4 CO. 1867. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1567, by E. B. TEEAT & CO., Tn the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The New York Printing Company, Si, 83, and 85 Centre Street, New York 3C« THE ILLUSTRIOUS MEMORY OF Major-General J. E. B. STUART, " Flower of Cavaliers" ©bis Book t5 ©fbiratefc BY AN OLD MEMBER OF HIS STAFF, Who loved him living, And mourns him dead. JOHN ESTEN COOKE. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS ENGRAVED ON STEEL FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM LIFE.

PAGE 1. Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. Frontispiece. 2. General Robert E. Lee 17 3. General G. T. Beauregard " 4. Major-General J. A. Early " 5. Major-General Wade Hampton " 6. Major-General Turner Ashby " 7. Major John Pelham i; 8. Colonel John S. Mosby " BATTLE SCENES FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS. 9. Wade Hampton's Cavalry Fight at Gettysburg. 57 10. Ashby's Adventure at Winchester 74 11. Death of Major Pelham— " The Gallant" 127 1 2. Stuart's Ride around McClellan 177 13. Stuart's Escape from the Federal Cavalry 209 14. Death Wound of " Stonewall Jackson " 301 15. How Darrell was captured 423 16. General Lee's Retreat from Petersburg CONTENTS. Part 1. PERSONAL PORTRAITS. Introduction liii I. Stuart 17 II. Jackson 44 III. Hampton 57 IT. Ashby 70 V. Beauregard 83 VI. Early 96 VII. Mosby 113 VIII.

Part I Personal Portraits

These " Personal Portraits " were undertaken with the design of making better known and understood the great actors in the recent struggle who are the subjects of them. It is a matter of grave importance that the illustrious figures of the war should not be obscured by the mists of ignorance or falsehood. Nor can they be. Dulness and slander do not long blind the eyes of men ; and sooner or later the light of truth makes all things visible in their natural colours and proportions. To the good work of placing upon record the actual truth in relation to the lives and characters of Stuart and some other noble soldiers of the Southern army, the writer of this page has here brought a few of his recollections — aiming to draw these "worthies" rather as they lived and moved, following their various idiosyncrasies, than as they performed their "official" duties on the public stage.

This seemed best calculated to display their real individuality — the embodiment of their personal characteristics in a portrait with the pen, as a painter draws the form and features of his sitter with the brush. Such personal details of the characters of these eminent men will not be uninteresting to the lovers of noble natures of what ever "faction;" nor is the fondness for such particulars either trivial or ignoble. They elucidate biography and history — which are the same — for they present the likeness of the actor in the drama, his character and endowments ; and to know what great men are, is better than to know what they perform. What Lee, Jackson, Johnston, Stuart, and their associates accomplished, histcy will record; how they looked, and moved, and spoke,