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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
great military leaders are made. He raised a company in Huntsville, Alabama, his present place of residence, as soon as it became apparent that war was inevitable between the Abolition Government at Washington and that of the Confederate States. This company formed a portion of the Fourth Alabama Regiment, to the colonelcy of which he was elected in the early part of May last, and was at once ordered to Virginia. He has been with General Johnston from the time of his occupancy of Harper's Ferry to the present. There is no officer in the Confederate army who has all his faculties more nearly under his complete control than the subject of this brief and imperfect sketch. In the hour of danger he is one of the coolest of the cool--one of the bravest of the brave. It is said by those who saw him in the battle of Manassas, when the shots were flying thickest and the men were falling fastest, that he was the impersonation of self-collectedness; that he sat his horse, at the he