The Long Roll
which to hide his naked horror. The guns boomed, the bells tolled, the
muffled drums beat, beat! Regiments marched with reversed arms, with
colours furled. There was mournful civic pomp, mournful official. There
came a great black hearse drawn by four white horses. On it lay the body
of Stonewall Jackson, and over it was drawn the deep blue flag with the
arms of Virginia, and likewise the starry banner of the eleven
Confederate States. Oh, heart-breaking were the minute guns, and the
tolling, tolling bells, and the deep, slow, heroic music, and the
sobbing of the people! It was a cloudless day and filled with grief.
Behind the hearse trod Little Sorrel.
Beneath arching trees, by houses of mellow red brick, houses of pale
grey stucco, by old porches and ironwork balconies, by wistaria and
climbing roses and magnolias with white chalices, the long procession
bore Stonewall Jackson. By St. Paul's they bore him, by Washington and
the great bronze men in his company, by Jefferson and Marshall, by Henry
and Mason, by Lewis and Nelson. They bore him over the greensward to the
Capitol steps, and there the hearse stopped. Six generals lifted the
coffin, Longstreet going before. The bells tolled and the Dead March
rang, and all the people on the green slopes of the historic place
uncovered their heads and wept. The coffin, high-borne, passed upward
and between the great, white, Doric columns. It passed into the Capitol
and into the Hall of the Lower House. Here it rested before the
Speaker's Chair.
All day Stonewall Jackson lay in state. Twenty thousand people, from the
President of the Confederacy to the last poor wounded soldier who could
creep hither, passed before the bier, looked upon the calm face, the
flag-enshrouded form, lying among lilies before the Speaker's Chair, in
the Virginia Hall of Delegates, in the Capitol of the Confederacy. All
day the bells tolled, all day the minute guns were fired.
A man of the Stonewall Brigade, pausing his moment before the dead
leader, first bent, then lifted his head. He was a scout, a blonde
soldier, tall and strong, with a quiet, studious face and sea-blue eyes.
He looked now at the vaulted roof as though he saw instead the sky. He
spoke in a controlled, determined voice. "What Stonewall Jackson always
said was just this: _'Press forward!'_" He passed on.
Presently in line came a private soldier of A. P. Hill's, a young man
like a beautiful athlete from a frieze, an athlete who was also a
philosopher. "Hail, great man of the past!" he said. "If to-day you
consort with Caesar, tell him we still make war." He, too, went on.
Others passed, and then there came an artilleryman, a gunner of the
Horse Artillery. Grey-eyed, broad-browed, he stood his moment and gazed
upon the dead soldier among the lilies. "Hooker yet upon the
Rappahannock," he said. "We must have him across the Potomac, and we
must ourselves invade Pennsylvania."
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