James H. Wood Livres

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The author recounts his military experiences serving as a private, and later captain, under the famous Confederate chieftain, Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. His memoirs commence with his enrollment at the Virginia Military Institute in 1860, his enlistment in the 37th Virginia Infantry Regiment, his participation in many of the leading Eastern battles, such as Cold Harbor, Sharpsburg (Antietam), and Gettsyburg, and his capture and subsequent prison life at Point Lookout, Maryland. Also included as an appendix is a first-hand account of the opening engagement of the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the wounding and death of Jackson, written by his aide-de-camp, Capt. James Power Smith.