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Dick Ewell (search for this): chapter 1.2
e knew more of the inner being of Stonewall Jackson and his characteristics as a soldier, than General D. H. Hill and General Ewell--the former his brother-in-law, the latter his trusted lieutenant. It was my privilege to be honored with the personal friendship of both these officers-General Hill early in the war, General Ewell later. Both talked freely with me of Jackson, and I eagerly absorbed from both all I could concerning him. General Hill, during the winter of 1861-1861, frequentlywar should last six years, and Jackson live so long, he would be in supreme command. Dear, queer, chivalric, lovable Dick Ewell first worshipped Stonewall Jackson, and then Stonewall Jackson's God. With his own lips he told me, what is related wi. Elymas the sorcerer, Simon Magus, if you please—but dear old Dick's simony led him up to pure and undefiled religion. Ewell used to say the secret of Jackson's success as a soldier lay in his emphasis of the maxim, Time is everything in war—more
W. P. Buck (search for this): chapter 1.2
bands playing, while the great shells from the siege guns were bursting over their heads and dashing their hurtling fragments after our retreating skirmishers. Buck was behind the corner of a house, taking sight for a last shot. Just as his finger trembled on the trigger, a little three-year-old, fair-haired baby-girl toddled and gave chase to a big shell that was rolling lazily along the pavement, she clapping her little hands and the dog snapping and barking furiously at the shell. Buck's hand dropped from the trigger. He dashed it across his eyes to dispel the mist and make sure he hadn't passed over the river and wasn't seeing his own baby-girlng as only Barksdale's men could yell. They were passing through a street fearfully shattered by the enemy's fire, and were shouting their very souls out; but-let Buck himself describe the last scene in the drama: I was holding the baby high, Adjutant, with both arms, when, above all the racket, I heard a woman's scream. T
Napoleon (search for this): chapter 1.2
n of our war. The entire force under Jackson at no time exceeded 17,000 men, it varied from 4,500 to 17,000—while the aggregate of the forces operating against him varied from 25,000 to 60,000. Take, as your major premiss, this enormous disparity in numbers—as your minor premiss, the incontrovertible, historic fact that, in every one of his battles (with the single exception of Kernstown), he outnumbered his adversary on the actual field of combat. What must be your conclusion? If, as Napoleon said, war is rapid and skillful concentration, then Stonewall Jackson is the genius of war. Take another element. It is almost too familiar to deserve mention, that the forced marches of his foot cavalry generally put him at the point of attack before his enemy was prepared to receive him; but, rapid marching alone furnishes no adequate explanation of the consternation of surprise, the mingled phrenzy and paralysis of amazement, with which his attacks were sometimes received. The expla
George Washington (search for this): chapter 1.2
dent States. In 1787, these free and independent States proposed a more perfect Union in the name of the people. We, the people, they said in their preamble to the proposed Constitution. But: In the last article, of the same Constitution, we read of the States ratifying the same as establishing the Constitution between the States so ratifying. In 1788, by June, the States had so ratified the Constitution; and in 1789, an orderly Constitutional Government came into power, George Washington its executive. In 1860-1861, four of these very States that had formed the Union, with seven other States that had been added, assumed to retrace their steps, and cease to be members of the Union. They formed or had come into the Union freely, voluntarily; they proposed to go out by the same door. Their reasons for this step need not be stated here and now. One thing at a time. A grave question of law and duty arose, deeper than the Constitution itself—viz: Has a State t
Joe Johnson (search for this): chapter 1.2
life of push and drive and clutch and scrape for wealth, aye for bread—the hum-drum, dead-level, feeble, shallow, selfish life you live to-day-look back upon your soldier life. Gaze upon it, in the hallowing light of the past. The look will do you good, through and through. One thing at least is clear. If there is any part or portion of your life, in which you were where you should have been and did what you should have done—it is the great Olympiad of 1861 to 1865, when you followed Joe Johnson and Robert Lee. And what a life that following opened to us. Every experience, every effort, every emotion, was deep with all its depth, and strong with all its strength, and strained the soul. Its perils and its sufferings, its heroism and its devotion—its pathos, its terror, its enthusiasm, its triumphs—all these were ecstacies and agonies, were earthquakes and tempests, compared with which the experiences of our life to-day are trite and tame indeed. You who witnessed the sprin
Constitutional (search for this): chapter 1.2
tentions, and declared themselves free and independent States. In 1787, these free and independent States proposed a more perfect Union in the name of the people. We, the people, they said in their preamble to the proposed Constitution. But: In the last article, of the same Constitution, we read of the States ratifying the same as establishing the Constitution between the States so ratifying. In 1788, by June, the States had so ratified the Constitution; and in 1789, an orderly Constitutional Government came into power, George Washington its executive. In 1860-1861, four of these very States that had formed the Union, with seven other States that had been added, assumed to retrace their steps, and cease to be members of the Union. They formed or had come into the Union freely, voluntarily; they proposed to go out by the same door. Their reasons for this step need not be stated here and now. One thing at a time. A grave question of law and duty arose, deeper
Chaffin (search for this): chapter 1.2
by the disaster at Fort Harrison, the capture of their commanding officer and other untoward incidents. The morale of the men had decidedly improved before the final crash came, but that was enough to try the mettle even of the best troops in the highest condition. The men of the fleet and of the James river defenses were ordered to leave the river about midnight of the 2d of April, exploding magazines and ironclads, and joining the Army of Northern Virginia on its retreat. The troops at Chaffin's, having been long in garrison, and rightly deeming this the beginning of the end, were greatly shaken by the orders, and the sublime terrors of that fearful night certainly did nothing to steady them. The explosions began just as we got across the river. When the magazines at Chaffin's and Drury's Bluffs went off, the solid earth shuddered convulsively; but, as the iron-clads—one after another—exploded, it seemed as if the very dome of heaven would be shattered down upon us. Earth and
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 1.2
Probably no two general officers in the Confederate service knew more of the inner being of Stonewall Jackson and his characteristics as a soldier, than General D. H. Hill and General Ewell--the former his brother-in-law, the latter his trusted lieutenant. It was my privilege to be honored with the personal friendship of both these officers-General Hill early in the war, General Ewell later. Both talked freely with me of Jackson, and I eagerly absorbed from both all I could concerning him. General Hill, during the winter of 1861-1861, frequently expressed to me his unbounded confidence in Jackson's unbounded genius, and predicted that, if the war sGeneral Hill, during the winter of 1861-1861, frequently expressed to me his unbounded confidence in Jackson's unbounded genius, and predicted that, if the war should last six years, and Jackson live so long, he would be in supreme command. Dear, queer, chivalric, lovable Dick Ewell first worshipped Stonewall Jackson, and then Stonewall Jackson's God. With his own lips he told me, what is related with slight variation in Mrs. Jackson's life of her husband, that the first religious imp
Banks (search for this): chapter 1.2
arch could not be his. In accordance with the rules of war, being at Strasburg last night at dark, he simply could not be here at daylight this morning. Tested by these rules he is not here, and yet he is actually here, in overwhelming force and devastating fury. The first result is surprise amounting to stupefaction—the second, that impression prominent in the official reports of his defeated opponents—The rebels were constantly and heavily reinforced all through the engagement. No, no! Banks, Milroy, Fremont—it was only old Jack's long column, electrified by the volleys that startled you from your blankets, and double quicking up into line and into battle. Now, then, let us formulate Jackson's system of war. 1st. The religious or subjective basis. Intense realization of the sovereignty of God, with its normal effect upon the powers of his soul and the habits of his life. 2d. Ceaseless, aggressive activity, keeping the fighting fibre of his men from fatty degeneration<
Lane Brandon (search for this): chapter 1.2
in the life of the Confederate soldier. A single scene from this room of memory's picture gallery. We had been ordered out of Fredericksburg. Burnside's great siege guns were belching forth death and ruin upon the old town, from the Stafford heights. Barksdale's Mississippians had been hospitably received by the inhabitants, and their blood was up in their defense. The Twenty-first Mississippi was the last regiment to leave the city. The last detachment was under the command of Lane Brandon, my quondum classmate at Yale. In skirmishing with the head of the Federal column—led, I think, by the Twentieth Massachusetts—Brandon captured a few prisoners, and learned that the advance company was commanded by Abbott, who had been his chum at Harvard Law School, when the war began. He lost his head completely. He refused to retire before Abbott. He fought him fiercely, and was actually driving him back. In this he was violating orders, and breaking our plan of battle. He was
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