Where did Jackson die?
Where is Jackson's
gravesite?
Where is his amputated arm buried?
Jackson
died on May 10, 1863, at a field hospital near Guiney Station, VA,
approximately 30 miles from the battlefield at Chancellorsville.
The hospital was located in an office building on the estate of Thomas and Mary Chandler.
Jackson's
body was returned to Lexington, Virginia,
for burial. He had spent almost ten years in the town while he was a
Professor at the Virginia Military Institute. The funeral took place on May
15, 1863. He was buried in what is now known as
the Stonewall
Jackson Cemetery,
located on Main Street.
The gravesite is today a popular tourist attraction.
Jackson's amputated arm was buried by the Rev. Beverly
Tucker Lacy in his family burial plot at "Ellwood," the Lacy
family estate (15 miles west of Fredericksburg) that was located about one
mile from the field hospital where Jackson was initially treated. The
National Park Service now owns the land and there is a marker noting the
location of the arm.
Don brings
pictures to tell us the whole story. Don
comes to us from Camden
by way of a number of pastoral assignments throughout the state. He is a
graduate of Ouachita
Baptist University
and holds a Doctor of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary. His retirement has brought him to Little Rock to be closer to his two
hobbies; grandchildren and the civil war. A
longtime Civil War Buff, he has presented many programs before roundtables
in the area.
A SAD note from the
Morningside Bookshop
Our
founder Bob
Younger passed away January
11. He will be missed. Funeral
services were held at Newcomer Funeral Home on
Wednesday, January 18, 2006. They are located at 3940 Kettering Blvd. Kettering,
OH 45439.
Morningside Bookshop is the
premiere bookseller of Civil War books. Morningside is also the
publisher of the Gettysburg Magazine, a bi-annual, scholarly
publication devoted to the Battle of Gettysburg. Concentrating
solely on the Gettysburg Campaign, the magazine gives an in depth study of
the events that took place at America's most famous
battle. Morningside Bookshop was established
in 1969 and is located in the South Park Historical District of Dayton,
Ohio.
COMING PROGRAMS
January 24 :
Don Nall
Stonewall's Wounding and Death
Feb 28: Brian
Brown
Stone's River
March 28: John_C_Scott, NPS –
The Pea Ridge Story
and
Dr. Doug Scott 's recent
archeological survey of the battlefield
April 25: Don
Hamilton
A Day at Shiloh
May 23: Cal
Collier
TBA
June 27:
TBA
July 25:
TBA
August 22:
TBA
September 26:
TBA
October 24:
TBA
November 28:
TBA
Election of Officers
December 2006 –
No meeting Scheduled in December
We Who Study Must Also Strive To
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New Officers for 2006
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Central Arkansas
Civil War Heritage Trails
Parents must teach their children about Confederate history because
they will not hear an accurate portrayal of it at public schools or through
the media, said the keynote speaker at David O. Dodd Memorial Service
January 7.
More than 100 people attended the graveside service at Mount Holly
Cemetery in Little Rock where 40 Confederate
re-enactors fired a gun salute.
Others laid red carnations and white alstroemeria at the grave of David O. Dodd,
known as the Boy Martyr of the Confederacy.
Coordinated by the Robert C. Newton Camp of the SCV, the memorial
included a march of a unit of Confederate soldiers from MacArthur Park
to Mt. Holly.
Keynote speaker Ron
Casteel of Jefferson City, Mo.,
is chief of staff for the Tennessee-based Sons of Confederate Veterans, a
nonprofit organization composed of male descendants of Confederate
soldiers. Casteel formerly lived in Arkansas
and was news director of KAAYAM radio station in the early 1980s.
Casteel said the Civil War is not over today, but instead of fighting
on the battlefield, supporters are fighting to save Confederate heritage.
“We’re losing our young because they are taught in schools that
are politically correct,” Casteel said. Casteel said he is
planning to produce a documentary about David O.
Dodd.
Charissa
Bratcher of Little Rock attended the service with her
2-year-old son.
“I like to support the people who come here”, said
Bratcher, whose father participated as a commander in the Sons of
Confederate Veterans. “It’s important to understand history.”
The above includes excepts from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and
from the story was published Sunday, January 08, 2006
Clebrating the Birth of Robert E. Lee
HdQrs Army of No VA
10th April 1865
General Order No 9
After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and
fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to
overwhelming numbers and resources.
I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard
fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last that I have
consented to this result from no distrust of them; but feeling that valour
and devotion could accomplish nothing that would compensate for the loss
that would have attended the continuance of the contest, I determined to
avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them
to their Countrymen.
By the terms of the Agreement officers and
men can return to their homes and remain there until exchanged.
You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the
consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I
earnestly pray that a Merciful God will extend to you his blessing and
protection.
With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your
country and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration
for myself, I bid you all an affectionate
farewell.
R. E.
Lee
Genl
After the War
Lee’s notarized oath
of allegiance to the United
States was forwarded
to William H.
Seward, Secretary of State, who should have then
forwarded it to President Johnson.
But the President never received the pledge, so
the pardon process could not be completed. Without the oath of allegiance no action could be taken on Lee’s pardon application.
Then, in 1970, a Civil War buff obtained permission to research old
State department files stored in the National Archives. During his
research, he came across a cardboard box labeled "Virginia." While rummaging through this box, he spied an
aged sheet of paper containing a faded pen and ink inscription. Upon
examination, he was stunned to learn that he was actually holding the
notarized pledge of allegiance to the United States that Robert E. Lee
had executed in 1865.
Upon learning of the discovery of the lost pledge, Virginia Senator, Harry F.
Byrd proposed a congressional resolution for a
posthumous pardon and restoration of citizenship for Robert E.
Lee. Congress, to its credit,
overwhelmingly voted in favor of the resolution and President
Gerald Ford
indicated his willingness to sign it. The signing ceremony took place on
August 5, 1975, at Arlington House, the former home of General Lee’s
family.
These excerpts from the comments President Ford
made at the signing ceremony are a fitting tribute to Robert E. Lee.
"I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring
posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee.
This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history. It is
significant that it is signed at this place.”
A NOTE ABOUT ROBERT E. LEE
Lee was born at Stratford, in Westmoreland
County, Virginia,
son of Revolutionary War hero Henry
Lee ("Lighthorse Harry")
and Ann Hill Carter Lee. He
entered the United States
Military Academy
in 1825. When he graduated (second in his class of 46) in 1829 he had not
only attained the top academic record but was the first cadet (and so far
the only) to graduate the Academy without a single demerit. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army
Corps of Engineers.
Lee served for seventeen
months at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur
Island, Georgia.
In 1831, he was transferred to Fort Monroe, Virginia,
as assistant engineer. While he was stationed
there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington.
They lived in the Custis mansion, located on the banks of the Potomac River
in Arlington, just across from Washington, D.C..
They eventually had three sons and four daughters.
Lee distinguished himself in
the Mexican War 1846-1848. He was one of Winfield
Scott's chief aides in the march from Vera Cruz
to Mexico City.
He was promoted to Major after the battle of Cerro
Gordo in April, 1847. He also fought
at Contreras, Cherubusco and Chapultepec,
and was wounded at the latter. By the end of the war
he had been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1855, Lee became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Cavalry and was sent to
the Texas
frontier. There he helped protect settlers from attacks by the Apache and
the Comanche.
These were not happy years for Lee
as he did not like to be away from his family for long periods
of time, especially as his wife was becoming increasingly ill. Lee came home to see her as often as he could. He
happened to be in Washington
at the time of John
Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
(now West Virginia)
in 1859, and was sent there to arrest Brown and to restore order. He did this very quickly and
then returned to his regiment in Texas.
When Texas seceded from the Union in 1861,
Lee was called
to Washington, DC to wait for further orders.
BOOKS
and VIDEOS OF INTEREST
For Love and Liberty
The
Untold Civil War Story of Major Sullivan Ballou and His Famous Love Letter
If you were among the millions who fell in love with Ken Burns's
documentary The Civil War back in 1990, today there's probably only one moment
you remember from it: "The Letter." Read as the music soared at
the end of the first episode, the letter from unsung Rhode Island soldier
Sullivan Ballou to his wife on the eve of battle—and likely
death—brought a nation of viewers to tears for its eloquence and
passion.
This is Ballou's story. At the age of thirty-four, less than ten
years after meeting the love of his life, Sarah Shumway, Ballou left his
law practice and budding political career, his wife and two young sons, and
took a commission as a major in the Union Army. He served in the army for
almost two months but was struck down at the First
Battle of Manassas-Bull Run. Civil War enthusiasts will devour the detailed
depiction of the battle in which Ballou participated, and romantics will be
absorbed in Sarah and Sullivan's love story.
For Love and Liberty brings the war to life with startling
detail, depicting not only the heroism of its soldiers, but also the
courage of the families they left behind.
Excerpt:
"The Letter"
July 14,1861
Camp Clark, Washington DC
Dear Sarah:
The indications are very strong that we shall move in a
few days - perhaps tomorrow. And lest I should not
be able to write you again I feel impelled to write a few lines that may
fall under your eye when I am no more.
I have no misgivings about, or lack of
confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt
or falter. I know how American Civilization now
leans upon the triumph of the government and how great a debt we owe to
those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution.
And I am willing - perfectly willing - to lay down
all my joys in this life, to help maintain this government, and to pay that
debt.
Sarah, my
love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that
nothing but omnipotence can break; and yet my love of Country comes over me
like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the
battlefield. The memory of all the blissful
moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me, and I feel most
deeply grateful to God and you, that I have enjoyed them for so long. And
how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes and
future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved
together, and see our boys grown up to honorable manhood around us.
If I do not return, my dear Sarah,
never forget how much I loved you, nor that when my last breath escapes me
on the battle field, it will whisper your name...
Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I
have caused you. How thoughtless, how foolish I have sometimes been!...
But, 0 Sarah,
if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they
love, I shall always be with you, in the brightest day and in the darkest
night... always, always. And when the soft breeze
fans your cheek, it shall be my breath, or the cool air your throbbing
temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.
Sarah do
not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet
again...
Sullivan
Ballou was killed a week later
at the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
"Lincoln
and Lee At
Antietam
- The Cost of Freedom"
Told by Ron Maxwell
The latest film from Inecom Entertainment
Company is "Lincoln and Lee at Antietam
- The Cost of Freedom," part of the
"MINUTES OF HISTORY®"series, will be distributed to public
broadcasting stations nationwide in May 2006.
Narrated by Ronald F.
Maxwell, director of "Gettysburg" and
"Gods and Generals," the feature
documentary is presented by Penn State Public Broadcasting (PSPB). The
special will air on stations beginning in May 2006, and will
be broadcast in standard and high definition formats. (Check local
listings for dates/times in your area).
Written, directed and produced by multiple-award winner Robert Child
("Gettysburg: Three Days of
Destiny," "Gettysburg: The Boys in
Blue and Gray"), "Lincoln and Lee
at Antietam - The Cost of Freedom" vividly brings to life the story of
America's
fight for freedom in a battle that changes the course of the Civil War.
It's September 17, 1862, and President Abraham Lincoln
needs a victory in order to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. But General Robert E.
Lee has other plans -- invade
the North. When Lee's strategy,
known as Special Order 191, falls into the hands of the Union Army, the
result is the single bloodiest day in American history at the Battle of
Antietam in Sharpsburg,
Maryland.
Inecom's newest title will be on sale at video stores, Internet
retailers, educational and institutional distributors
and retail chains on January 31, 2006. Many retailers are currently
accepting pre-orders.
VISIT
THE BATTLEFIELDS
WHEN
YOU CAN...WHILE YOU CAN
SEE YOU TUESDAY NIGHT
for Don Nall
and Stonewall Jackson
