He had in the course of the night caught a severe cold.

In the hasty march he had left his blankets behind him.

One of his staff threw a heavy cape over him as he lay on the wet ground.

During the night Jackson woke, and thinking that the young officer might himself be suffering from the want of his cape, rose quietly, spread the cape over him, and lay down without it.

The consequence was a severe cold, which terminated in an attack of pneumonia that, occurring at a time when he was enfeebled by his wounds, resulted in his death.