. Leading American soldiers. So they had to go back without him; butwhen they reported that he had disappeared they found thathe had made a flank march and got to heaven before them. The soldiers knew, indeed, the greatness of their had never failed. He had risen from one daring achieve-ment to another. He had made the impossible appearprobable. And many thought as did the minister at NewOrleans whose words are reported by the Rev. Dr. Fieldin some such form as this: O Lord, when in thine inscru-table decrees thou didst ordain that the cause of the Con-federacy should fall, thou dids
. Leading American soldiers. So they had to go back without him; butwhen they reported that he had disappeared they found thathe had made a flank march and got to heaven before them. The soldiers knew, indeed, the greatness of their had never failed. He had risen from one daring achieve-ment to another. He had made the impossible appearprobable. And many thought as did the minister at NewOrleans whose words are reported by the Rev. Dr. Fieldin some such form as this: O Lord, when in thine inscru-table decrees thou didst ordain that the cause of the Con-federacy should fall, thou didst find it necessary to removethy servant Stonewall Jackson. This was the verdict of a partisan of the South; that ofthe historian is not widely removed from it. So long as theUnited States need, and value, military leaders, so long willJackson be remembered as one of the most remarkableproducts of our race; his personal factor was so momentousthat he must go down in history as the great interrogation-point of the Civil
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