The story of a connoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the Army of northern Virginia . ofCapt. Andrew Reid, a soldier of the French andIndian War. Our authors father was Capt. David , for twenty-three years the Attorney for INTRODUCTION 17 the Commonwealth for Bockbridge County, anda member of the Constitutional Convention,1850-51. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Har-vey, a descendant of Benjamin Borden, anddaughter of Matthew Harvey, who at sixteenyears of age ran away from home and becamea member of Lees Legion, participating int
The story of a connoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the Army of northern Virginia . ofCapt. Andrew Reid, a soldier of the French andIndian War. Our authors father was Capt. David , for twenty-three years the Attorney for INTRODUCTION 17 the Commonwealth for Bockbridge County, anda member of the Constitutional Convention,1850-51. His mother was Miss Elizabeth Har-vey, a descendant of Benjamin Borden, anddaughter of Matthew Harvey, who at sixteenyears of age ran away from home and becamea member of Lees Legion, participating inthe numerous battles in which that distin-guished corps took part. Thus it will be seen that our author is ofmartial stock and a worthy descendant of thosewho never failed to respond to the call to arms;the youngest of four brothers, one of whom sur-rendered under General Johnston, the otherthree at Appomattox, after serving throughoutthe war. It is safe to say that Virginia fur-nished to the Confederate service no finer ex-amples of true valor than our author and histhree brothers. Henry St. George Tucker. Lexington, Va.,December 20, Captain Wiujam T. Poague (April, 1862-April, 1863) FACING 19. THE STORY OF A CANNONEERUNDER STONEWALL JACKSON CHAPTER I WASHINGTON COLLEGE LEXINGTON VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE At the age of eighteen I was a member of theJunior Class at Washington College at Lexing-ton, Virginia, during the session of 1860-61, andwith the rest of the students was more inter-ested in the foreshadowings of that ominous pe-riod than in the teachings of the our number there were a few from theStates farther south who seemed to have beenborn secessionists, while a large majority of thestudents were decidedly in favor of the Union. Our president, the Rev. Dr. George Junkin,who hailed from the North, was heart and soula Union man, notwithstanding the fact that oneof his daughters was the first wife of MajorThomas J. Jackson, who developed into thewo
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