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Confederate Military Chieftains.
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 From a long review of the late war, pub- lished in tLe New York Citizen, Republican Journal. edited by Colonel Halpine. better known as private Miles 0'Reilly, late of the United States army, we extract the following estimate of Southern Chieftains
 DAVIS
 Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples of Mir Abbott, who worship the character of Bona parte, make some consistent homage to the brilliant directory of Jefferson Davis. Both were men of destiny, and tho personnel of the survivor is by far the nobler. Of the fallen angels, whose dark plumage swept from our Senate Halls, he made the most courtly adeu Of all the traitors he was the most entirely in earnest Of all decision his was the sagest, the promptest and the most en- during Hc only of the conspirator felt that his quarrel with the Union was irreconcilable, and has never yet advised submission. His captivity has been belittled by none of Bona parte's queruousness. Blind, and grey, and wasted, his dominions are narrowed to the casomate, while the Republic he would oyer- throw reaches to tho silent oceans.
 LEE.
 In Robert Lee the same austere Providence, to purify our Republicanism, shattered our faith in traditional responsibility. Tho heir of Washington went with the rest of the new chivalry, and with ten times the talent of the great Fabius, crushed the armies of our lesser responsibilities, till he met in Grant man without a pedigree He was tho equal of Wellington in maneuvering great bodies of troops upon small interior lines. The Duke at Waterloo fought his whole army upon . mile and a quarter arc but Lee at Cold Harbor, for five days presented solid line of battle wherever we sought to find him, till his whole force seemed maneuyered by the wink of his eye, and every salient that we touched was corps While the Qualifications of Rich mond stand, his name shall evoke admiration. The art ot war is unacquainted with any de- fense so admirable. Splendid as were tho triumphs of his engineering, the victories of his infantry were his best movements. But over the glory of his talent fell shadow as eternal as his memory-the frown of reso- lute Democracy, whose sacrifice was longer than his art.
 STUART.
 Istood in the cemetery of Hollywood, at the grave of Stuart--a space without shaft. He reyolutionized the cavalry tactics of our time, and was in dash and dissoluteness the Prince Rupert of the West. Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan and Grierson, Mosby and Fitzpatrick were the imitators. He inaugu- rated the grand raid which taught Sheridan the nothingness of distance. and emboldened Sherman to tear the continent like a pocket map.
 The fervid imagination of the Southern people, demonstrated in feats of romance, like Stuart's, made thom, during the war, the great suggestive captains. They built the first iron-clad, made the first great rides. and under Stonewall Jackson executed the earliest of the great infantry marches. But the colder adaptablity of the North developed every hint from the South into . perfect sys- tenn. The experiment. of the MerrImao has grown to the Dictator, the Dunderburg and Ironsides. The engineering assiduity of Beauregard, initiated by the North, has marked the camps of our armies, as if the protesting mountains had followed our coll nmnsv. But 1t may bo doubted that any diyis- ion commander has yet arisen to rival the splendid infantry genius of Jackson,
 JACKSON
 As Lee was master of maneuyer, Jackson was the great captain of aggressive warfare. He combined the cunning and the boldness of Napoleon. To cover his great movement by the flank in 1862 he did not hesitate to fight Pope's whole army with a division, and the celerity of his march up the Shenandoah, to appear again on the field of Bull Run, was only equallei by the energy of his attack. He moved infantry with the speed of horse, and having hurled three great commanders back from the Old Dominion, died before the lustre ofits arms had diminished in that flush ofyictory when rebellion had assumed, indeed, the proportions ofa nation. He was tho nest republican of rebels, stern and simple as any Roundhead, and this is why we hold his memory greener than that of his companions whose defection 10 tho Union was augmented by their treason to popular institutions.
 There were other personages identified with this grand historical defence, but these are the great statues-Davis, Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Beauregard.
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