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Updated: May 6, 2025
The moon was high, but not observed; the Wilderness fiercely chanting. Behind him was Captain Wilbourne of the Signal Corps, two aides and several couriers, Jackson rode along the Plank road. There was a regiment drawn across this way through the Wilderness, on the road and in the woods on either hand.
Three cases of fever, two of pneumonia, some dysentery, measles among the recruits. The medicines we got at Winchester are invaluable; they and the better fare the men are getting. Best of all is the consciousness of victory, the confidence and exaltation that all feel." "Yes, doctor. God's shield is over us. Captain Wilbourne " "I brought the signal party in from Peaked Mountain last night, sir.
"Fire!" called an officer of the 18th North Carolina. The volley, striking diagonally across the road, emptied several saddles. Stonewall Jackson, the aides and Wilbourne, wheeled to the left, dug spur, and would have plunged into the wood. "Fire!" said the Carolinians, dressed to the left of the road, and fired. Little Sorrel, maddened, dashed into the wood.
They caught the rein, stopped the horse. Wilbourne put up his arms. "General, general! you are not hurt? Hold there! Morrison Leigh! They laid him on the ground beneath the pines and they fired the brushwood for a light. One rode off for Dr. McGuire, and another with a penknife cut away the sleeve from the left arm through which had gone two bullets.
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