Amongst her husband’s last spoken sentences were these, uttered in delirium: ‘Order A. P. Hill to take the right flank. Major Pendleton, go see if there is higher ground between Chancellorsville and the river. Where is Pendleton? Tell him to push on those columns!’
But his last words of all before dying on the afternoon of May 10 were: ‘Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.’
Bibliographical Note
In telling this narrative, the author received invaluable assistance from a number of works, but especially:
Stonewall Jackson, volumes 1 and 2, by Lenoir Chambers (1959)
The Blue and the Grey, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Henry Steele Commager (1973)
The Confederate Reader, edited by Richard B. Harwell (1957)
My Diary North and South, volumes 1 and 2, by W. H. Russell (1863)
I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas (1940)
A Southern Woman’s Story by Phoebe Yates Pember (1959)
The four volumes of Bruce Catton’s Centennial History of the Civil War
The Life of Johnny Reb by Bell I. Wiley (1943), and by the same author,
The Plain People of the Confederacy (1944) and Southern Negroes, 1861–5 (1938)
May all these authors, the living and the dead, flourish in reputation.
About the Author
Thomas Keneally (b. 1935) is an Australian author of fiction, nonfiction, and plays, best known for his novel Schindler’s List. Inspired by the true story of Oskar Schindler’s courageous rescue of more than one thousand Jews during the Holocaust, the book was adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg, which won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Picture. Keneally was included on the Man Booker Prize shortlist three times—for his novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates—before winning the award for Schindler’s List in 1982. Keneally is active in Australian politics and is a founding member of the Australian Republican Movement, a group advocating for the nation to change its governance from a constitutional monarchy to a republic. In 1983 he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for his achievements.
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