The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-05-30
sToNEwALL JACKSON.

The Cincinnati Commercial of recent date
contains lengthy aud highly interesting
article on Stonewall Jackson, from which we
make the following extracts:
Jackson was native Virginian. a gradu-
ate of West PoInt-was known before the
war as ''Prof. Jackson" from his connec-
ton with the University of Virginia, and
chiefly remarkable as a most devout Presby-
terrain, being deacon in the church, and as
a man of many singularities. He was al
most, if not quite, hypochondriac, having
notion for years that he was likely to have
paralysis of the legs, and, as preventive.
be was in the habit of wearing, in his study,
vet sheet wound about his loins. He also
had an idea that his nervous system needed
special nourishment, and for years ate fat
meat three times per day 10 nourish his
nerves, being very careful TO use exactly the
same quantity at stated hours. It is rela-
ted of him that, when student at West
Point, he made it point that the book be-
fore him should be perpendicular, and would
sit for hours stiff and straight. 1t is said
that he was, at The commencement of the war.
in great agony of mind as to what he should
do; but the fatal doctrine of owing primary
allegiance to his State, carried him into the
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of the Southern Confederacy with the fiery
zeal of fanatic.
Innumerable anecdotes are told of his reli-
gious character. The Southern papers tell
of his long and loud prayers, which. on the
eve of battle, were particularly unctious.
His soldiers, they say, knew when he ex
pected battle by his manner of praying
After the second battle of Bull Run, the
battle field being in possession Of his troops,
he is said to have held prayer meeting with
the wounded men of both armies.
He first distinguished himself at the first
battle of Bull Run, and acquired his sobri
quet of "StonewalP' by replying to Beaure-
gard, when his part of the line was hard
pressed. that his part of the brigade should
stand ''like a stone wall" After that he
was called "Stonewall Jackson" and his
brigade was known as the ''Stouewall Brig
ade.'' 4
In the battle of Charlottesville, he as
usual led the column of attack, and had his
accustomed luck in striking the weak point
of our lines. His death will doubtless pro-
duce the most profound sensation and the
deepest encouragement among the rebels.
And though he was recognized as far the
most danger Gus military enemy of the Uni
ted States, the satisfaction felt that he has
fought his last battle, will be tempered by a
sentiment OF sorrow that so brave and capa-
BILE man should have fallen. The rebel
papers are right about his astounding pres
tige." A curious regard was felt for him
even in our. own army, and among those
who had oftenest fought the legions he led,
In Europe he was looked upon as the hero
of the American war, and the most conspic-
uous and interesting parsonage who has ap-
peared during the tremendous struggle that
shakes this continent. His name will for
ever be prominent, shining with brilliant
but baleful light. in the records of these
strange and significant times, and the asso-
citation of so many high, and even noble
qualities, with the enormous crime of trea-
son. and the championship of cause so i'll
omened. malignant and hopeless as that OF
the rebel confederacy, is phenomenon that
will be pondered with profound interest,
and melancholy reflections. by students oil
human nature and the historians of the dark
and bloody days of the Republic that tested
the capacity of men of this generation to
govern themselves, and determined the des,
tiny OF great people.