Appendix 293✦

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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General "Stonewall" Jackson Frontispiece

Captain William T. Poague, April, 1862--April, 1863 19

Gun from which was fired the first hostile cannon-shot in the Valley of Virginia 25

Robert A. Gibson 40

Edward A. Moore, March, 1862 60

John M. Brown (war-time portrait) 80

William M. Willson (Corporal) 98

W. S. McClintic 120

D. Gardiner Tyler 140

R. T. Barton 158

B. C. M. Friend 180

Edward A. Moore, February, 1907 200

Edward H. Hyde (Color-bearer) 220

Randolph Fairfax 240

Robert Frazer 260

John M. Brown 280

Fac-simile of parole signed by General Pendleton 291

PREFACE✦

More than thirty years ago, at the solicitation of my kinsman, H. C. McDowell, of Kentucky, I undertook to write a sketch of my war experience. McDowell was a major in the Federal Army during the civil war, and with eleven first cousins, including Gen. Irvin McDowell, fought against the same number of first cousins in the Confederate Army. Various interruptions prevented the completion of my work at that time. More recently, after despairing of the hope that some more capable member of my old command, the Rockbridge Artillery, would not allow its history to pass into oblivion, I resumed the task, and now present this volume as the only published record of that company, celebrated as it was even in that matchless body of men, the Army of Northern Virginia.

E. A. M.