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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 7: Manassas. (search)
rming with heavy masses of Federal infantry. Jackson recalled Imboden's battery, which had entered It was then that this general rode up to Jackson, and with despairing bitterness exclaimed, General, they are beating us back! Then, said Jackson, calm and curt, we will give them the bayonet.r-tasked command, exclaimed to them, There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the the critical success. For nearly four hours, Jackson had held the enemy at bay; and the precious sof the contested arena, and the battery which Jackson had twice taken. But the other troops which the stubborn and useful fighting was done by Jackson and his command. Other officers and other brave made surrender inevitable. In this sense Jackson may be said to have won the first Battle of Mf war to every coast and river of the South. Jackson had the mind to comprehend the inestimable vamore with so uncertain an instrument. But Jackson was more than the professional soldier. Leav[21 more...]
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 8: winter campaign in the Valley. 1861-62. (search)
he Valley. 1861-62. The appointment of General Jackson to the command of a separate district und field. About the middle of November, General Jackson, busying himself, while he awaited his rest the ice and freezing floods of winter. Jackson therefore marched to Martinsburg, December 10ed the generous hospitality of the citizens. Jackson, nevertheless, pressed on, and the third day,ich of the roads the main body had gone. General Jackson, accordingly, divided his forces, sendinged them, and the rashness and severity of General Jackson's rule. A petition for the recall of theion for a time, and immediately wrote to General Jackson, in terms alike honorable to his own magnst his intended retirement. To all these General Jackson made the same reply. To the Governor, hesumed his tasks. In this transaction, General Jackson gained one of his most important victorieartinsburg. A General of less genius than Jackson would have certainly resorted to laborious en[41 more...]
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 9: General view of the campaigns of 1862. (search)
y assumed connexion with each other. The movements in Virginia were related to those in the Great West, and the brilliant events in the district commanded by General Jackson had a vital influence upon the campaign in Virginia. In writing the military history of this great commander, two objects must be kept in view. One will were the results of his boldness only, with that inexplicable chance, which, to man's natural reason, appears good luck, and which a religious faith, like that of Jackson, terms Providence. But while the perpetual and essential influence of the divine power is asserted, which alone sustains the regular connexion of means with ends, it will be shown that these conceptions are erroneous; that General Jackson's campaigns were guided by the most profound and original applications of military science, as well as sustained by the vigor of their execution; and that they are an invaluable study for the leader of armies. The reader has now reached the commenceme