. A soldier's recollections; leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South . e command and marched and fought underhis eye. It will always be our pride and boast thatwe had an active part in that marvellous campaignof his in the valley of Virginia, from May 22d to June10th, and that we so conducted ourselves as to win hisconfidence and to be assigned such duty as could onlyhave been given a command which he thoroughlytrusted. Of this great soldier a few words may here be the hour when, at the battle of Manassas,Gene
. A soldier's recollections; leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South . e command and marched and fought underhis eye. It will always be our pride and boast thatwe had an active part in that marvellous campaignof his in the valley of Virginia, from May 22d to June10th, and that we so conducted ourselves as to win hisconfidence and to be assigned such duty as could onlyhave been given a command which he thoroughlytrusted. Of this great soldier a few words may here be the hour when, at the battle of Manassas,General Bee pointed to him and cried to his waveringSouth Carolinians, There stands Jackson, like astone wall! the rank and file of the army gave himtheir complete confidence, and were ready to followwherever he led, and to attempt whatever he com-manded. Not so the authorities at Richmond. Notso all the officers of high rank in the field. Generalswho had known him at West Point and rememberedthat his scholastic rank was low, and that only bypatient plodding could he keep up with his class,found it difficult to beheve that Jackson could be a90. LIEUT. GEN. THOS. J. (STONEWALL) JACKSON STONEWALL JACKSONS VALLEY CAMPAIGN 91 brilliant soldier. Those also who had known him asthe quiet and by no means inspiring professor at theVirginia Military Institute felt the same acknowledged his steadfast courage and hisunflinching resolution. Those qualities had been dis-played by him in the Mexican War at Vera Cruz, Con-treras, and Chapultepec/ and now again at Manassasand at Kernstown, but his critics said, first, that hewas indeed the man to lead a forlorn hope into thejaws of death, but had not capacity to command abrigade; and when he had disproved this in battle,they said that he could fight a brigade under the eyeof a capable superior officer, but could never fill anindependent command, which required strategy andjudgment. It will be remembered that, owing to therepresentat
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