. The photographic history of the civil . ^tmirurall Jarkson This exposed condition was due to his own activity in the Val-ley, which had held McDowell inert upon the Rappahannockwith thirty-five thousand muskets which should have been withthe force north of the Chickahominy, inviting attack. Jacksonrarely declined such invitations; he could scent an exposed flankwith the nose of a hound and was * fast dog following thetrail when struck. Besides his habitual celerity of movement,was his promptness in delivering attack, which was an elementof his success. The first musket upon the ground
. The photographic history of the civil . ^tmirurall Jarkson This exposed condition was due to his own activity in the Val-ley, which had held McDowell inert upon the Rappahannockwith thirty-five thousand muskets which should have been withthe force north of the Chickahominy, inviting attack. Jacksonrarely declined such invitations; he could scent an exposed flankwith the nose of a hound and was * fast dog following thetrail when struck. Besides his habitual celerity of movement,was his promptness in delivering attack, which was an elementof his success. The first musket upon the ground was fired. says a dis-tinguished English authority. without giving the opposingforce time to realize that the fight was on and to make its dis-positions to meet the attack or even to ascertain in what forceit was being made. The quiet, retiring pedagogue of the I. had not been wasting those ten years in which most ofhis leisure had been devoted to the study of the campaigns ofthe great strategists of history, from Ca?sar to Napoleon, andh
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