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A quarter of an hour previous to the discharge of the fatal shots which deprived Jackson of his life, a Federal officer who was wounded and taken prisoner, appeared before him. This officer was Captain Wm. D. Wilkins, of Michigan, on the staff of General A. S. Williams, who commanded a division of the national army. The particulars or the interview between that officer and General Jackson are here given as we and them in a, northern journal: "When captured, Captain Wilkins was placed in charge of a guard who. took him short distance to the rear, where he met General Jackson and staff ,Jacks-on was sitting on his horse at the head of the column, surrounded by his staff. He wore a new suit of
gray uniform and was a spare man with a weather beaton face and a bright grayish blue
eye He had a peculirly sad and gloomy expression of countenance as though he
already saw a premonition of his fate.
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