Stood between John Pope’s Union Army and the Federals’ main supply depot at Manassas Junction. 26, 1862, Jackson captured Bristoe Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad about 40 miles west of Fredericksburg, cutting the Union supply line.
“My only food…was a handful of parched corn and three or four small sour green apples.”īut it was worth it. On the second day, remembered a South Carolina soldier, Berry Benson, But the land didn’t offer much to sustain 23,000 Confederates. To “unsling knapsacks.” They were going to live off the land. To move faster, at the beginning his men were ordered Stonewall Jackson was justly famous - 56 miles in 36 hours across the rolling Virginia Piedmont. It was the most grueling of the forced marches for which Gen. His postwar narrative recalls the realities of warfare for the private soldier, the moral ambiguities of thievery and survival at the front, and the deliberate cruelties of capture and imprisonment with the vivid detail, straightforward candor, and irreverent flair for storytelling that have earned "Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade" its place in the first rank of primary literature of the Confederacy."-Print ed.Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Captured in February 1865, he spent the final months of the war as a prisoner at Fort McHenry, Maryland. A native of Gainesboro, Virginia, with an inherent wanderlust and thirst for adventure, Casler enlisted in June 1861 in what became Company A, 33rd Virginia Infantry, and participated in major campaigns throughout the conflict, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Moreover, Casler's recollections provide an unapologetic view of the effects of the harsh life in Stonewall's ranks on an average foot soldier and his fellows. First published in 1893 and significantly revised and expanded in 1906, Casler's Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade recounts the truths of camp life, marches, and combat. Though he was no model soldier, his forthright confessions of his service years in the Army of Northern Virginia stand among the most sought after and cited accounts by a Confederate soldier. Casler's actions during the Civil War made him as much a rogue as a Rebel. From his looting of farmhouses during the Gettysburg campaign and robbing of fallen Union soldiers as opportunity allowed to his five arrests for infractions of military discipline and numerous unapproved leaves, John O. Includes more than 30 illustrations of the author's unit and the actions it engaged in."The classic tale of battle, roguery, and capture from the Army of Northern Virginia.
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