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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDEK: FRIDAY. NOVEMBER h. 18J)1
STONEWALL JACKSON.
A Comment «
I>r. Field's Decent Article
iu Harper's.
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banks of an insignificant creek in the
state of Virginia, known by the unpo-
etic name of “Hull Run,” began a mili
tary career which has in history but few
equals, and absolutely no superiors.
Short and meteoric in Us splendor, but
unlike the darning meteor, its trail went
not out after its swift light into darkness
and oblivion, but is as eternal as the
noonday sun itself. 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
Chancellorsville—and its 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
ple 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.
Gen. Richard Taylor lias said that
w hilst war has been carried on among
the people of earth from tho beginning
until now, one might count the great
generals the world has produced upon
the lingers of one hand. If this bo true,
I am sure that in tho counting the name
of Jackson would not be omitted.
These thoughts and their expression
come, from a loyal southern heart, at the
instance of Tiie Times-Recoudek,which
kindly requested me to pay due notice
to the mauly, 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
the 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. Ilia brother, Cyrus W. Field,
is at once one of the ablest 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 tho
great plan of connecting the United
States and Europe by tho Atlantic cable.
His brother, Stephen J. Field, for nearly
a quarter of a century was the only
democratic justice of the supremo court
of tho United States, and no once since
tho days of Roger B. Taney lias reflected
more honor and credit upon that august
tribunal.
Ills brother David Dudley Field is
recognized by all lawyers, as “facile
princeps” the head of tho bar of tho
state of Now York. For noarly half a
century has this broad minded and
progressive juiist battled for law reform.
His civil code of procedure has been
adopted in the main, from California to
Georgia
Dr. Field himself is one of the most
scholarly theologians. Of broad views he
lias traveled from Ispahan to Labrador.
The occasion for Dr. Field’s very
truthful and manly panegyric upon
“Stonewall” Jackson was the recent
publication by this soldier’s wife of his
biography. Dr. Field is nothing if uot
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 tho war pro
duced on either side.”
Speaking of tho rapidity of his excep
tion of movements ho said, “he
outdid even Napoleon himself, training
his men to such a pitch of endurance
that he could rush them twenty-live
miles a day, over a broken country and
fight a battle as the sun was going
down.”
Hut tho history of Jackson needs no
detailing to a Southern reader. Suffice
it to say that the wonderful valley cam
paign in the spring of 1802, in which he
routed Rinks, Fremont, Shields and
Milroy, in detail, all of them with ar
mies equal to his own, and somo supe
rior in numbers, and then rapidly threw
himself upon the left flank of McClel
land’s army before Richmond, were
achivements that, even the eloquent pen
of Dr.Field had uot the power to criticise
witli sufficient admiration.
Hut, after all, the chief charm iu Dr.
Field’s article is his description of the
personal character of this “God of War.”
He 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. As soon
as lie enters his door he puts off all mili
tary stiffness as he would lay aside his
military cloak; the officer is changed
into a man, and the man is changed into
a boy. Yielding to the natural reaction,
he abandons himself to fun and frolic 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 he sometimes indulged in
sinful amusements, for his wife confesses
(alas, that it should be told of a blue-
light Presbyterian) that at times when
there was nobody looking on lie would |
draw the curtaiu so as not to scandalize
the neighbors aud dance a jig around the
room.”
Jackson was evidently of a most de
vout turn of mind. lie believed in the
atonement; he believed in the efficacy of
prayer. When he left his home in Lex
ington, to return a corpse, on the eve of
his departure he retired to his private
room and opened his family Hible to
this word of promise: “For we know
that if o'ir earthly house of this taberna
cle be dissolved, we have a building of
God, a house not made with hands, eter
nal in the heavens.” He then prayed for
his wife and for his country, and,
rising from ids keees, he went to join
his command.
Jackson has been said to ha/e been a
man of iron. He was not. In marked
contrast to the vandals of the north,
misnamed generals, at Harper’s Ferry
he captured 11,000 men, and, instead of
treating them with great severity, ho
paroled them all.
As I have said, Jackson was a man of
prayer. This simple faith in divinity
was his inspiration. “His negro servant
said he always knew when there was
going to be a battle, because his master
got up so many times in the night to
pray! And he at once packed his haver
sack, for he know that he would call for
it in the morning.”
To the many veterans who followed
the rising fortunes of the south under
Jackson, and who as stubbornly fol
lowed tlnsir 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 his Juliet—calling to his as
sistance the smooth and loving words
peculiar to the sun-nurtured men of
Spain: “The bravest are the tenderest;
The loving aro the daring.”
Hut enough. Naught that I can say,
naught tiiat Dr. Field may saj, can add
one ray to the brilliancy and grandeur of
tliis man’s character.
The votive offering of his wife leaves
us to say of him as was said of him years
ago by Margaret J. Preston:
No name ? No record ?
.\slc t"« worlu—the world has read his
story—
If its anna s can unfold a prouder name of
glory ?
?r merely human life
angnt di
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