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Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 2: the cadet. (search)
early manifested. If he could not master the portion of the text-book assigned for the day, he would not pass over it to the next lesson, but continued to work upon it until it was understood. Thus it happened that, not seldom, when called to the black-board, he would reply that he had not yet reached the lesson of the day, but was employed upon the previous one. There was then no alternative but to mark him as unprepared. A distinguished student of the class next above him, now Major-General Whiting, rendered him valuable private aid, while all applauded his sturdy effort. But at the examinations which closed his first half-year's novitiate, the line which separated the incompetents, and condemned them to an immediate discharge, was drawn a very little below him. Nowise disheartened by this, but thankful that he had saved his distance, he redoubled his exertions. At the end of his first year, in a class of seventy-two, he stood 45th in mathematics, 70th in French, had 15 demer
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson, Chapter 14: the Richmond campaign. (search)
ong detachment, consisting of the brigades of Whiting, Hood, and Lawton, which made an aggregate ofes; and the wood beyond was shelled by one of Whiting's batteries while the bridge was rapidly repal's division next him. and sent orders to Generals Whiting and Lawton, and to the Brigadiers of his the day was reserved for the division of General Whiting, consisting of the Mississippi brigade of the third division, counting from the left. Whiting, after being sorely embarrassed by the confusageous to flee, that the brigades of Hood and Whiting were launched against the Federal lines on thnt. But now, as the troops of Longstreet and Whiting drove the throng of their foes from cover inthis, advanced the divisions of D. H. Hill and Whiting into the pine wood on his left, detailed a w Brigade, and of Balthis from the division of Whiting, were then ordered forward, and by approachinnce of the enemy's infantry. The infantry of Whiting was now disposed upon the left, the brigade o[5 more...]