. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War . led down to the quiet hfe of a small garrison. He hadgone out to Mexico a second lieutenant; he had come backa field-officer. He had won a name in the army, and hisnative State had enrolled him amongst her heroes. Hehad gone out an unformed youth; he had come back aman and a proved leader of men. He had been knownmerely as an indefatigable student and a somewhat un-sociable companion. He had come back with a reputationfor daring courage, not only the courage which glories inswift action and the excitement of the charge, but courage 64 STONEWALL
. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War . led down to the quiet hfe of a small garrison. He hadgone out to Mexico a second lieutenant; he had come backa field-officer. He had won a name in the army, and hisnative State had enrolled him amongst her heroes. Hehad gone out an unformed youth; he had come back aman and a proved leader of men. He had been knownmerely as an indefatigable student and a somewhat un-sociable companion. He had come back with a reputationfor daring courage, not only the courage which glories inswift action and the excitement of the charge, but courage 64 STONEWALL JACKSON of an enduring quality. And in that distant country hehad won more than fame. He had already learned some-thing of the vanity of temporal success. He had gone outwith a vague notion of ruling his life in accordance withmoral precepts and philosophic maxims ; but he was tobe guided henceforward by loftier principles than evendevotion to duty and regard for honour, and from thepath he had marked out for himself in Mexico he STONEWALL JACKSON, .ET. 2-1.(From a ) CHAPTER m LEXINGTON. 1861-1861 Of Jacksons life at Fort Hamilton there is little to friend and mentor, Colonel Taylor, was in command. The chaplain, once an officer of dragoons, was a man of persuasive eloquence and earnest zeal ;and surrounded by influences which had now becomecongenial, the young major of artillery pursued the re-ligious studies he had begun in Mexico. There was somedoubt whether he had been baptised as a child. Hewas anxious that no uncertainty should exist as to hisadhesion to Christianity, but he was unwilling that thesacrament should bind him to any particular sect. On,_ - the understanding that no surrender of judgment would be involved, he was baptised and receivedhis first communion in the Episcopal Church. Two years passed without incident, and then Jackson was transferred to Florida. In his new quarters his jggj stay was brief. In March 1851 he w
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