. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . t Virginia boy with tlie strong religious bent graduatedeighteenth in his class of seventy from West Point in 1846, his comrades little thought that he was destinedto become the most suddenly famous of American generals. The year after his graduation he attractedattention by his performances as lieutenant of artillery under General Scott in Mexico, and was brevettedcaptain and major for bravery at Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. Fourteen years later he earnedhis sobriquet of Stonewall in the first great battle of the Civil
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . t Virginia boy with tlie strong religious bent graduatedeighteenth in his class of seventy from West Point in 1846, his comrades little thought that he was destinedto become the most suddenly famous of American generals. The year after his graduation he attractedattention by his performances as lieutenant of artillery under General Scott in Mexico, and was brevettedcaptain and major for bravery at Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. Fourteen years later he earnedhis sobriquet of Stonewall in the first great battle of the Civil War. Within two years more he had risento international fame—and received his mortal wound on the field of battle. He was reserved, almost som-ber with his men, yet he earned the love and enthusiastic devotion of the soldiers who came to be known asJacksons foot cavalry, so unparalleled were the marches they made under his leadership. They came totrust his judgment as infallible, and in spite of overwhelming odds they followed no matter where he led. [D-7]. Btntt^mall SarkHott ^ •$. ^ (^^iMM^J^) pon the struggle, then in its very inception. In that fiery bap^\ \-^ tism, a man still unknown to fame was to receive, at the hand;
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