The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-05-14
So StopewalI" JacksOn's Death

StOnewall" JackSOn's Death
VIII FIJI the Southern Confederac5 with
gloom and despondency' He Ehas been
SO Immediately connected with, if he
was not the prime cause of, all the rebel
successes ia the '"old Dominion" that
his departure viii naturally suggest to
them the departure of victory. The
additional loss of ten thousand men,
and the retreat of Lees army toward
would not have occasioned
any greater sorrow in the rebel capital
than the news that their greatest and
most successful General is dead. 1t
may be claimed that Lee planned the
various expeditions whose successful ex-
ecution contributed so much to Jack
sons fame. Suppose this to be true
which we do not believe-still Jacksons
loss is irreparable. 1t is more difficult
to act than to talk-it is easier to plan
than to execute-it is not so hard to
map out victories as to gain them. If
Jackson had not possessed capacity
equal to that of the rebel commander-in-
chief, he could never have executed
those complicated movements which
have almost invariably resulted in
thwarting our plans and the rcPulso
of our armies. The truth is, jackson
conceived as well as executed.
He alone, of all the rebel Generals,
appears to have had rowing commits
sion to do US all the damage possible,
and our armies invariably found him
where they least expected him. He
has been our evil genius. His name
has been tower of strength to
the rebels and he was regarded with
admiration as we'll as fear by our own
troops. But once was he defeated, where
he made the attack, and that was when
he attempted to drive the gallant Kim
ball, with his Western veterans, from
Winchester.
To General jackson are we mainly in
debted for Gen. McClellan's failure on
the Peninsula, and the attending loss Of
so many brave men. His raid up the
Shenandoah Valley, in which Gen. Banks
was driven across the Potomac, and his
subsequent retreat, escaping all the
suares set for him by the Union officers,
and his arrival in Richmond in time to
lead the attack on Mcclellan right flank
at Gaines Mills, will be regarded as the
brightest display of Generalship of the
war. Indeed every movement which
depended for it's success on the energy,
secresy and indomitable pluck of the
commander, was committed to Stone
wall jackson, and, to the great detri-
ment of the Republic he was generally
successful
AT Charlottesville, when Lee found
that he was outgeneraled and trapped
we presume that is what he means by the
use of the term trying vicissitudes u
Tn MS cOngratuIatory order-he, as
usual, seems to have committed to Jack
son the task of extricating him from his
dangerous position. Stonewall at
once set about the work, and by one of
those sudden flank movements and
vicious assaults for which he is celebra-
ted, he broke Hooker's lines, compelled
that officer to fall back, and got posses
sion of the Gordonsville and Fredericks-
burg pike. But Gen. Lee purchased that
advantage at an enormous cost, when he
gave for it the life of Thos j. Jackson
and we do not consider it improbable that
noone event will.haye SO great an influ
ence upon the future of the war as the
| death of this officer.