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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 5: secession. (search)
uspense: leading the most experienced minds in Europe to doubt whether such a scheme of government iment very singular, very far removed from all European ideas, or even very impracticable, still, if And the tendency of the landless population of Europe to flow to the Western Continent, showed them of its actual numerical superiority, and its European immigration, stood ready to pour in thousandse larger. This power, which the old States of Europe expended such rivers of treasure and blood to radicalism, discontent, crime, and poverty of Europe, until the people of the Northern States becaming themselves of the avarice and injustice of Europe, made all the workshops, shipyards, and factor neglect and injustice from the governments of Europe. Men have seen fit to adopt the slanders of oral of those same States was recognized by all Europe eighty years ago, and, as is known to all the s to be better known than it is, generally, in Europe. It was on December 20, 1860, that the State [2 more...]
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 7: Manassas. (search)
y. The newspapers of the North scouted with disdain the ideas of defeat; and declared that, in ten days at the utmost, their triumphant army must be established in Richmond, and the Confederate Government drowned in the blood of its leaders. It may be well to recall to memory the boastful spirit and arrogant self-confidence, with which the North entered upon the struggle with the South. The Tribune said: The hanging of traitors is sure to begin before the month is over. The nations of Europe may rest assured that Jeff. Davis & Co. will be swinging from the battlements of Washington, at least by the 4th of July. We spit upon a later and longer deferred justice. The New York Times said: Let us make quick work. The rebellion, as some people designate it, is an unborn tadpole. Let us not fall into the delusion of mistaking a local commotion, for a revolution. A strong active pull together will do our work effectually in thirty days. The Philadelphia Press declared that no ma
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 18: Fredericksburg. (search)
centre of the board. As his eye fell upon it, he paused, and with mock gravity, pointed to it, saying : See there, gentlemen If there is not the crowning evidence of our host's sporting tastes. He even puts his favorite game-cock upon his butter The dinner of course began with inextinguishable laughter, in which General Jackson joined with as much enjoyment as any. His fame had now become world-wide; and while he attracted the enthusiastic admiration of his countrymen, strangers from Europe made pilgrimages to the army to gain a view of the great soldier. They found him, not the bizarre and austere hero he had been described by popular fancy, but the modest, courteous gentleman, who offered the scanty hospitality of his quarters, and cared for their comfort with an almost feminine tenderness. His domestic tastes soon began to seek their solace among the children of the family nearby; and he selected one, a sweet girl of six years, Jane Corbin, as his especial favorite. He re