Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-11-20
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Gen Slonewall Jackson.

that OF Stonewall jackson III par.
ticular, taken from the Washington
correspondence of the st. Louis
Republican, cannot fail to interest
our readers:
The country must by this time
fully realize the situation III this
D., quarter, and the knowledge of the
radical changes which have so sud
denly taken place cannot but adj
minister a heavy shock to the pub
! tic pulse. A little more than two
short months ago we were be-
sieging the capital of the rebels
with our best army, under our lest
! Generals; now the enemy have
again invested Washington.
On the 29th Of June, jackson
turned McClellan's right, and
forced him back from the suburbs
of Richmond, in seven days of
bloody battles; on the 2Oth Of Au-
gust he turned Pope's right, and
in five days fighting hurls him on
the fortifcations Of Washington.
Thus, in two short months, the
tide of battle has rolled backward
one hundred and sixty miles, and
the position Of the conlbatants COM
pletely reversed.
The operations of "Stonewall
Jackson for he does the fighting
has no parallel in modern histo-
ry. 1t viii be remembered he oc-
cupied the position of Professor"
in the Virginia Military Institute
ior years before the war COM
menced, where he taught the
young f. F. VS. the science of war,
and fitted them for the command
of their legions now in the field.
There he was evidently the "rlght
man in the right place" When
the war began he was commls-
stoned a Brigadier General Of Vol
unteers, and had command OF a
brigade in the battle of Bull Run,
July DIST, 1861, where he distln-
guished himself by his unfinching
valor and cool control of his forces.
In that engagement, Gen. Bees $
South Carolina troops wavered,
when he rallied them by exclalming
look at Jackson men, they
stand like a stonewall! And
Beauregard .afterward using the
same expression, indescribing their
cosiduetin his official report, Jack
son was dubbed his present title
from that time. During the fall
and winter following he was placed
in command Of a small "army OF
observation, which held the upper
valley of tie Shenandoah and the
country roundabout Staunton. 1t
was intended that heshould remain
quasi inactive, to watch the enemy
and to wait for him; but he soon
commenced Hanouvering on hls
own responsibility, and began re-
vealing evidences Of the stuff that
makes good Generals. The high
military authority at, Richmond
discovered early in the spring that
he was disposed towards such eN.
t tensive operations with his SMALL
command that he might get HIM
self into trouble-in fact, aston'
ished at the boldness he displayed.
they began to draw the official
rein on him; butJackson crustlly
"Send me more men and
less orders, or more orders and
less men." From that day they
trusted him. He pitched on
| Shields at Winchester, but failed
only because BanEss corps had MOI
advanced as far south at that time
as he supposed, and returning, !: re
inforced Shields at the end OF the
| first days fight. During the night
| he drew off .and retreated up the
valley.
In less than so days he dashed al
Fremont's advance, west OF Staun
ton, and ? driving it back, wheeled
his army, swept down the 2 valley "a
/ and drove Banks across the peto
4 mac. Returning to the upper val
lev, he manouvered around arc t 10 |,
three weeks-in themeantlme deal
/ ing Fremont a heavy blow at Cres :,
,lKeys and tlrashing Shields in tn
Luray Valley, and, then suddenl,