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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-