The New Orleans Daily Democrat

Stonewall Jackson's Death Wound.

[Charleston News.]

Gen. Jubal A. Early contributes to the December number of the Southern Historical Society papers an elaborate article on the wounding of Stonewall Jackson which will be read with painful interest by every ex-Confederate. It includes a long and plainly written narrative by Capt. R. E. Wilbourn, of Mississippi, who was the only officer actually with Gen. Jackson at the time he was wounded. In the words of Gen. Early: "His account of the whole affair shows how very erroneous are the generally received accounts; and it now appears that instead of riding to the front to reconnoitre the enemy and then impudently galloping back toward his own line, Gen. Jackson was slowly riding to the front, while making every effort to hurry forward the troops, when he was fired on by a portion of his own men on the right (south) of the road, and obliquely from the rear, and that then the horses of his party that were not shot down wheeled to the left, and he galloped into the woods on the left to escape the fire, when he was fired upon by another body of troops on the north side of the road." It was by this last fire that Gen. Jackson was wounded. One ball struck him in the left arm two inches below the shoulder joint, shattering the bone and severing the chief artery; a second passed through the same artery; a second passed through the same arm, between the elbow and wrist, making its exit through the palm of the hand, and a third ball entered the palm of his right hand, about the middle, and passing through broke two of the bones. All the circumstances surrounding the wounding, as well as those immediately preceding and succeeding, are told with graphic distinctness and picturesque detail, and Gen. Early's article, although apparently intended only as a reply to some erroneous statements of Gen. Revere, in his book entitled "Keel and Saddle," is really a most valuable contribution to the history of the war.