Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, and Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA, 1861-65 : a Memoir Written for His Children in 1903A Confederate artillery officer, William Thomas Poague fought in General "Stonewall" Jackson's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and at Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and elsewhere. After Jackson's death, Poague remained in the Army of Northern Virginia. Gunner with Stonewall sheds light on a neglected aspect of the Civil War, the role of the artillery in combat. The notebooks containing these memoirs were edited by Monroe F. Cockrell, an expert on the Confederacy and graduate of Virginia Military Institute, and first published in 1957. A new introduction by Robert K. Krick has been added for this Bison Books edition. Krick is the author of Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. |
Contents
Lawyer to Lieutenant | 1 |
First Battles Under Jackson | 6 |
Trial and Triumph in the Valley | 15 |
Seven Days Through Second Manassas | 28 |
To Maryland and Back | 41 |
Fredericksburg | 53 |
Farewell to the Rockbridge Artillery | 61 |
Gettysburg | 70 |
Privations and Pleasures of the Final Months | 101 |
The Last Campaign | 110 |
The Appendices I Wartime letter of Wm T Poague Concerning General Lee | 133 |
Wartime letters of Wm T Poague to his mother and brother | 136 |
Letters received by Poague during Reconstruction | 156 |
Lees approval of Poagues request for Mortars 1864 | 172 |
Editors Acknowledgments | 175 |
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A. P. Hill advance afterwards Appomattox Army of Northern artillery attack battalion battery called camp campaign Captain cavalry Colonel Brown column Confederate Court House D. H. Hill Dutch Gap enemy enemy's field fight fire flank followed force Fredericksburg front Gettysburg guns halted Harper's Ferry heard Hill Hill's hope horses infantry James John learned Lee's letter Lexington Lieutenant line of battle Longstreet look Lynchburg Major Manassas McIntosh miles morning mortars moved musquitoes never night Northern Virginia officer Old Jack once passed Pelham Pendleton Penick's picket pike Poague's Port Republic position reached rear replied rest Richmond ridge river road Rockbridge Artillery rode Second Manassas sent Sharpsburg shells shot soldier soon Stonewall Brigade Stonewall Jackson things troops Utterback valley Virginia Military Institute W. T. Poague wagon Wilderness William woods wounded Yankees yards