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and watching through his glass the progress of the fight. Presently a staff officer of General Ewell galloped up and exclaimed : " Gene- ral Ewell says, sir, that it is almost impossible for him to advance further unless that battery (pointing to it) is silenced." " Go tell Major Andrews to bring sixteen pieces of artillery to bear on that battery and silence it immediately," was the prompt reply. Soon the battery was silenced. " Now," said he, " tell General Ewell to drive them," and right nobly did General Ewell and his gallant men obey the order.

In the afternoon of the day at Cold Harbor Jackson became very impatient that the enemy did not yield his position more readily, and turning to one of staff said : ' ' This thing has hung fire too long. Gallop to every brigade commander in my corps and tell them if the enemy in their front stands at sundown they must cease firing and sweep the field with the bayonet."

When on his great flank movement at Chancellorsville, General Fitz Lee sent for him to ascend a hill from which he could view the enemy's position. He merely glanced at it once, when he formed his plan, and said quickly to an aide: " Tell my column to cross the road." Just before he was wounded at Chancellorsville he gave to General A. P. Hill the order: "Press them and cut them off from the United States Ford," and as he was borne bleeding, mangled, and fainting from the field he roused himself to give, with something of his old fire, his last order: " General Pender, you must hold your position."

A STERN DISCIPLINARIAN.

He was very stern and rigid in his discipline, and would not tole- rate for a moment the slightest deviation from the letter of his orders. He put General Garnett under arrest for ordering a retreat at Kerns- town, although his ammunition was exhausted and his brigade was about to be surrounded, preferred charges against him, and was prosecuting him with the utmost vigor at the opening of the Chan- cellorsville campaign.

He insisted that Garnett should have held his position with the bayonet ; that the enemy would have retreated if he had not ; and that under no circumstances should Garnett have fallen back without orders from him (Jackson).

After the death of Jackson General Lee, without further trial of the case, restored General Garnett to the command of a brigade, and this brave soldier fell in the forefront of Pickett's famous charge on the heights of Gettysburg.