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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Recollections of Stonewall Jackson. (search)
ully to camp. Jackson's opinion of an advance into the enemy's country. Long before Jackson had written to a friend, who was the recipient of his most private feelings: "I am cordially with you in favor of carrying the war north of the Potomac." It would appear that, from the beginning of his military career, he had looked forward to an invasion of the enemy's territory as the only certain means of bringing the war to an end; and, if his abruptly-terminated campaign toward Romney in January be attentively studied, it will leave the impression that even then, with the great force in front of him, he believed that greater results would be achieved by a forward movement and a transfer of hostilities to the region beyond the Potomac, than by falling back and yielding possession of the Valley, to be overrun and plundered by the enemy. To advance seems, indeed, to have been the prime maxim of this great man's military philosophy — to strike the foe, without waiting to