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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 12 : Winchester . (search)
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 14 : the Richmond campaign. (search)
Chapter 14: the Richmond campaign.
After the victory of Winchester in May, General Jackson had requested his friend Hon. A. R. Boteler to represent to the authorities near Richmond, his desire for reinforcements, that he might carry the war toward the Federal Capital.
Tell them, said he, that I have now fifteen thousand men. I should have forty thousand; and with them I would invade the North.
When this message was delivered to General Lee, the Commander-in-Chief, he replied: But he must help me to drive these people away from Richmond first.
Thus it appears that his sagacious mind had already formed the design of concentrating the army of Jackson with his own, in order to take the aggressive against McClellan.
Had the battle of Port Republic been a disaster, this would have been impossible, and Richmond would probably have fallen into the hands of the assailants.
As soon as the news of Jackson's victory there was received in Richmond, it was judged that the proper time had a
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 15 : Cedar Run . (search)
Chapter 15: Cedar Run.
While the army lay near Westover, resting from its toils, General Jackson called his friend, the Honorable Mr. Boteler, to his tent, to communicate his views of the future conduct of the war, and to beg that on his next visit to Richmond, he would impress them upon the Government.
He said that it was ma not to lead, in this glorious enterprise: he was willing to follow anybody; General-Lee, or the gallant Ewell.
Why do you not at once urge these things, asked Mr. Boteler, upon General Lee himself?
I have done so; replied Jackson.
And what, asked Mr. Boteler, does he say to them?
General Jackson answered: He says nothing.
ButMr. Boteler, does he say to them?
General Jackson answered: He says nothing.
But he added; Do not understand that I complain of this silence; it is proper that General Lee should observe it: He is a sagacious and prudent man; he feels that he bears a fearful responsibility: He is right in declining a hasty expression of his purposes, to a subordinate like me.
The advice of Jackson was laid before the Presiden
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 18 : Fredericksburg . (search)