2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/21/2024
CDV size Printed Card of vignetted image with printed name on the front "Stonewall Jackson". As Jackson and his staff were returning to camp on May 2, sentries of the 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment mistook the group for a Union cavalry force. The sentries shouted "Halt, who goes there?", but fired before evaluating the reply. Frantic shouts by Jackson's staff identifying the party were replied to by Major John D. Barry with the retort, "It's a damned Yankee trick! Fire!"[51] A second volley was fired in response. Jackson was hit by three bullets
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