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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 196 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 78 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 74 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 52 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.23 (search)
his after life was to be, for often he would close one of his long talks of which I speak with the remark, I have but one talent, and will never be anything but Tom Jackson unless the United States engage in war. Early in 1842 the cadetship at West Point for this congressional district suddenly became vacant through the failure of the appointee to report for examination, and Jackson announced to me his resolve to seek the place. Knowing that he had no influential friends to urge his appointment, and that even if he secured it, he was poorly prepared to pass the preliminary examination, I at first discouraged him in his purpose, but finally seeing that his e given to the son of some soldier or sailor who had lost his life in his country's service, and there were, he urged, a score of applicants for the place. Young Jackson, however, could neither be bluffed nor driven from his purpose. In the end he overcame the objections of the secretary and gained his point. Judge Spencer, in g