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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 163 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.23 (search)
ere, and many a time-worn man delights to talk of Jonathan and Cummins Jackson, and the traits of character which made them known for miles aremainder of his boyhood was passed. Zzzhis Nephew. Cummins Jackson was intemperate, fond of gambling, betting and horse-racing, bver thrown from his horse, and seldom failed to win a race. Young Jackson became one of my scholars at the age of fourteen. In school he waer. One morning on the way to school a big bully, much older than Jackson, behaved very badly toward some of the schoolgirls. Jackson, who Jackson, who was present, told the offender he must apologize or he would thrash him. The bully, feeling himself an overmatch for his antagonist, declined to do so, whereupon Jackson pluckily attacked him, and a long and bloody fight followed. Jackson in the end came off victorious and forced Jackson in the end came off victorious and forced the bully, much against his will, to apologize for his behavior. The military instinct in Jackson asserted itself early. While yet but a