Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-26
THE LATE CONFEDERATE MILITARY CHIEF

The LATE CONFEDERATE MILITARY CHIEF
TAINs.-From long review Of the late war,
published in tie New York Citizen, Repub-
lice journ:,!, edited by Col Halpine, better
knorn as Private Miles O. Reilly, late Of the
United States Army, we extract the following
estimate C. Soutkern Chieftains:
DAVIS Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples
of Mr. Abbott, who worship the character of
Boo :te MAKE some consistent homage to
the BIN ant directory Of effelSon Davis. Both
were men Of destiny, 4ad thepersonaa Of the
survivor j. by far the noblel. Of the fallen
am lis whose dark plumage swept from our
Sci te Halls, he made the most courtly :diev.
OF all thG tr-ito.s he was the most entirely in
earnest. Ofa,l decision, his was the sagest
the prompt,st and the, most enduring He
only of &c cobsp4tators felt that Ills quarrel
nevt. Yet ld,.--. submission. His captivity
has bee. b~lltt4cd by none of Bonaparte' $ quer-
ulous SIS. B4lLd, aid grey, ard wasted, his
dini'.louS IL . ;.lrrowed TO tie cajemate, while
tie 1.u. .bl:, he would overthrow reaches to
the s..eLt octans.
LEE.-ls Robert E. Lee the same austere
Providence, to purify our Republican. shat
1eled our faith Ia traditional respeotabilly.
The le.l, cf Washington went with the rest of
the new cl.iv;.ly, aud Win ten times the talent
of the great Fabius, crushed the armies Of our
lesser .esp..j& J..,ii,;ec, I'll lie met in Grant
man wit,ous .eG:grec. He was the eoualof
Wenins ton !. nlaLeuvliiLS great bodies ot
trv ,ps upon small, interior lines. The Duke
at Wa,.lloo fou5nSs his whole army upon
mile and a quarter are but Lee, at Cold Har-
ivr, tCr five days L.eseLted solid line OF battle
wherever we soug,.y .or him, Til his whole
.vr;c seemed l.neuvt I'd Ly the wink CT his
eye, -. e7e.v sal,n5 tia. We touched was
corps VIE tt.s L. ,ilca5ions Of Richm1nd 11
St. :, Lis name shall eSC.-e admiration. The
art ni !. a. is ruf ,ql..L led with any defenseso
admirable Sp.el...: as were the triumphs of
his eDginteIins, the victories Of his infantry
were Ills LIST monuments. But over the glory
of Ills tale.o fc shadow as eternal as his
mem ,ry-til. l.oWn ct a resolute Democracy,
Th.se sac noe was 10. ,eI than his art.
STUART STOOD In CGe cemetery OF Holly
wood. at the grave Of Stla,t-a space without
SHIFT he revolutionized the cavalry tactics
of orr time, and was in dash and dissoluteuess
the Prince Elpytt off the West. Forrestnand
S.oDe, an: Morgan, Grerson, Mosby and Kill
rat.lc., were lis itlitators. He inaugurated
The e.--a l~:>.M .lleh taught Sheridan the moth
IN .1es o. distance, ;tut emDoldened Sherman
- tel the continent like pocket map.
The ierviI imagination the Southen people
demonstrated in feats of romance, like Stuart's,
made them, during the war, the great sugges-
tive captains. They built the first iron-cIad,
made the first great rides and under Stonewall
Jackson executed the earliest of the great iu-
fantry i-.arches But the color adartability of
the North developed every hint from the South
into a ortevt system. The experiment Of the
Mcrrih- &c has grown to the Dictator, the Dun.
derberg and Iropsides. The engineering asst
duty of Beauregard, initiated by the North,
has marked the camps Of our armies, as if the
protecting mountains had followed our columns.
But it may be doubted that any division COM
manu.l LIS yet arisen to rival the splendid in
fantry genius of Jackson
JACKsoN.-As Lee was master Of manmu-
we, Jackson was the great captain Of aggres-
siVe warfare He combined the cunning and
the boldness of Napoleon. To cover his great
movement by the hapk in 1862; he did not
hesitate 10 fznt Pops whole army with a
di' son, and the celet,ty Of his march up the
She'l. .doall, TO .,ppear ;.eesin on the field OF
Bull run, was only equalled by the energy OF
his attack. He moved iofantry with the speed
OF horse, and having hurled three great comman-
ders back from the old Dominion, died before
the lustle of it's aims had diminished in that
flush ef victory when rebellion had assumed,
lndecu e.. PROPORTIONS of nation. lie was
lEe lU@> s,,.blica u ebels, stern ind simple
a; lily l.o -.uhead, and this is Wy we hold
his memory sreenes than that Of his compan-
Ions whose detection to the Union was aug
mented by their treason to popular Institutions.
Ihere were other personages identified with
this grand historical defence, but these are the
great statues-Dayis, Lee, Jackson, Stuart,
Beauregard.