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THE AMKK10US DAILY TIMhS-KECORDER: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1. ISOt.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
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A Comment on Dr. Field*. Decent Article
In Harper'*.
On the 21st of July, 1891, upon the
bank, of an Insignificant creek in the
state of Virginia, known by the unpo-
etio name of “Ball Run,” began a mili
tary career wbicb baa In history but few
equals, and absolutely no superiors.
Short and meteorio In Ita splendor, bat
unlike the darning meteor, Its trail went
not out after its swift light into darkness
and oblivion, but Is as eternal as the
noonday tun itaelf. This career ended
in the dense wilderness and low under
growth only a few miles from the spot
where it began—at the bloody battle of
Cliancellorsrille—and ita period was of
less than two years’ duration. So mag
nificent in its splendor was it, however,
that time itself will be but a reminis
cence ere it is forgotten. I speak of the
military career of “Stonewall” Jackson.
Of southern blood and birth myself,
born years after the death of this hero,
still from history and no small interest in
the affairs which have attracted the peo
pie of the past, and with some study of
the campaigns of commanders, I have
always esteemed “Stonewall” Jackson
the greatest soldier this continent has
produced.
den. Richard Taylor has said that
whilst war has been carried on among
the people of earth from the beginning
until now, one might count the great
generals the world has produced upon
tho lingers of one hand. If this be true,
I am sure that in the counting the name
of Jackson would not be omitted.
These thoughts and their expression
come, from a loyal southern heart, at the
instance of The TimesKkcokder,which
kindly requested me to pay due notice
to the manly, kind and able monograph
upon General Jackson by the Rev, Henry
M. Field, D. D., which appears in the
November, 1891, issue of Harper’s Mag
azine.
Dr. Field is a northern man, and no
doubt he believes in the righteousness of
tho Federal cause in the war between the
states; but, Dr. Field is a man whose
breadth of mind allows him to rise above
all passion and all prejudice.
The article before me does credit to
his intelligence, to his manliness and to
his scholarship. At this, I am not sur
prised. Dr. Field comes of a remarka
ble family. Perhaps it is the most re
markable that this country has ever
produced. His brother, Cyrus W. Field,
at once one of the ablost and most
successful of financiers, a noted philan
thropist, and daring mover in human
progress. He it was that conceived and
carried to its successful fruition the
great plan of connecting the United
States and Europe by the Atlantio cable,
His brother, Stephen J. Field, for nearly
quarter of a century was the only
democratic justice of the supreme court
the United States, and no once since
the days of Roger B. Taney has reflected
more honor and credit upon that august
tribunal.
His brother David Dudley Field is
recognized by all lawyers, as “facile
prlnceps” the bead of the bar of the
state of Now Tork. For nearly half a
century has this broad minded and
progressive jurist battled for law reform,
His civil code of procedure has been
adopted In the main, from California to
Georgia.
Pr. Field himself is one of the most
scholarly theologians. Of broad views Be
has traveled from Ispahan to Labrador.
The occasion for Dr. Field’s very
trnthful and manly panegyric upon
"Stonewall" Jackson was the recent
publication by this soldier’s wife of bis
biography. Dr. Field Is nothing If not
enthusiastic in commending his char
acter as a soldier, a husband and a
Christian gentleman. Truly, does he
say, "As a soldier some competent crit
ics rank him as the first the war pro
duced on either side.”
Speaking of the rapidity of his execru-
tion of movements he said, “he
outdid even Napoleon himself, training
his men to suoh a pitch of endurance
that ha could rush them twenty-five
miles a day, over a broken country and
fight a battle as the sun was going
down."
But the history of Jackson needs no
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Knox - Hits
detailing tu a Southern reader. Suffice
it to say that the wonderful valley cam
paign in the spring of 1882, in wbioh he
routed Banks, Fremont, Shields and
Milroy, in detail, all of them with ar
mies equal to his own, and some supe
rior in numbers, and then rapidly threw
himself upon the left flank of McClel
land’s army before Riohmond, were
achlvements that even the eloquent pen
of Dr.Field had not the power to criticise
with sufficient admiration.
Bat, after all, the chief charm in Dr.
Field’s article is his description of the
personal character of this “God of War.”
Ho says: "It will surprise many to
learn that this grim soldier was noted in
his family for his playfulness and the
quiet humor that often rippled in a
smile or a twinkle of the eye. At soon
as he enters his door he puts off all milt,
tary stiffness as he would lay aside his
military cloak; the officer is obanged
into a man, and the man Is changed into
a boy. yielding to the natural reaction,
he abandons himself to fan and frolio in
a way that leaves far behind the dignity
of the grave professor and the military
officer. We are afraid If the whole truth
were told that be sometime* indulged in
sinful amusements, for bit wife confesses
(alas, that It should be told of a blue-
light Presbyterian) that at timet when
there was nobody looking on he would
draw the curtain so as not to aoandalize
the neighbors and dance a jig around the
room.”
Jackson was evidently of a most de
vout turn of mind. He believed in the
atonement; he believed In the efficacy of
>rayer. When he left hit home In Lex-
ngton, to return a corpse, on the eve of
bis departure he retired to his private
room and opened his family Bible to
this word of promise: "For we know
that If our earthly bouse of this taberna
cle be dissolved, we have a building of
God, a house not made with bands, eter
nal in the heavens.” He then prayed for
his wife and for his country, and,
rising from his keees, he went to join
his command.
Jackson has been said to have been a
man of iron. He was not. In marked
contrast to the vandals of the north,
misnamed generals, at Harper's Ferry
be captured 11,000 men, and, instead of
treating them with great severity, he
paroled them all.
A* I have said, Jackson was a man of
prayer. This simple faith in divinity
was hit inspiration. "His negro servant
said he always knew when there was
going to be a battle, because hit master
got up so many time* in the night to
pray I And he at once packed his haver
sack, for he knew that be would call for
It in the morning.”
To the many veterans who followed
the rising fortunes of the south under
Jackson, and who at stubbornly fol
lowed their wane after b's death, who
knew him only as the grim, ungainly,
austere soldier, it will be a matter of
surprise for them to learn that “Stone
wall" Jackson in his letters to his wife
displayed almost the tenderness of a
Romeo to hit Juliet—calling to bia as
sistance the smooth and loving words
peculiar to the sun-nurtured men of
Spain: “The bravest are the tendereet;
The loving are the daring.”
But epough. Naught that lean sav.
naught that Dr. Field may say, oan add
one ray to the brilliancy and grandeur of
tbi* man’s character.
The votive offering of his wife leaves
us to say of him ss was said of him yean
ago by Margaret J. Preston: '
Nonamtf No record T
Ask tb. world—the world has read hie
If lte annals ean untold a prouder name of
. glory t
If ever merely human lift
Hath taught diviner moral f
If ever ’round a worthier brow
Wae twined a purer laurel V
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