New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-09

patient labor, prepares the young for that longer
conflict which fills the whole length and breadth
Of human life. "."7
Some Testimonies from the War Documents.
The Philadelphia Age makes some interesting
extracts from the volumes containing the report
of the committee of Congress on the conduct of
the war. The first has reference to Gen. Banks
and his encounter with the immortal stonewall
Jackson, with some Introductory remarks by the
Age: mu
~ GEN. BANKS AND.sToNEwALL JACKSON.
On the 10th of May, 1862 the Confederate au-
thorities announced that Gen. Banks had been
''ignomniously driveni' down the valley - Stone
wall jackson literally chased him to the Potomac.
II Gen. Banks had come from any other part OF
the world than Massachusetts,, this would have
been the end of him. But New England can bear
this sort of "ignominy" and he was transferred
to command in the advance of Pope's army.
| Thus in advance, on the 9th of August, he en-.
countered his old friend, Gen. Jackson at or near
| Cedar Mountain, and had sharp struggle with
! him. Banks thus describes it, with an incidental
allusion to lssus and GruucuS:
The battle ragged for two hours, and until the
| combatants were separated by the darkness, with
| as much stubbOrnness as ever men fought in the
world. Alexanders troops never fought better.
They held their position until dark, but the enemy
was SO much stronger that it was impossible to adj
vance. In the evening we fell back etc, (yol.
| 3, p. 49, For this, General Pope censured "Al
eXander.n The fact is, that according to his own
showing, Banks was goaded in this battle, for he
testihes thus "ln the morning Gen. Roberts Pepe's
chief of staff said to me in tone which it was
| hardly proper for one officer to use to another,
| There must be no backing out this day. He said
this to me, from six to twelve times. l made no
| reply to him, but felt it keenly, because knew
| that my command did not want to back out. We
had backed out enough. he repeated this dec.
| laration great many times, There must be no
backing out to-day. To be sure, Gen. Pope de-
MES all this, and in a letter to the committee thus
! cruelty and ,contemptuously extinguishes his re-
| fractory subordinate: ..'..--..
! " In my official reports, endeavored as far as
possibly could, to avoid the censure justly charge
| able upon Gen. Banks for his management of that
battle, though was warned at the time, by officers
1 of high rank, that it was misplaced generosity
| and that my farbearance would certainly be used
against ME hereafter. I did not then believe il
| possible, and felt disposed to deal with Gen
Banks with the utmost tenderness as knew and
sympathised with him in his modification at the
| result of his previous encounter with Jackson, anG
| perfectly understood his desire to retrieve his
reputation
| TRIBUTES TO THE CONFEDERATEs.
! Gen. Hooker, in his testimony, speaks as follow:
of the opposing armies: +.'" ''..r'
! Gen. Hooker, in his testimony, Up. lls) says
g Our artillery had always been superior to thai
of the rabels, as also our infantry, except in
dicpine, aud that, for reasons not necessary t.
mention, never did equal Lees army. With rank
and file vastly inferior to our own, intellectually
and physically, Gen. Lees army has, by discipline
1 alone, acquired character for steadiness ant
efficiency unsurpassed, in my Judgment, in ancien
or modern times. We have never been able tt
rival it." l.HTt 40 = -
Gen Meade speaks of :" the brave and gallan
advance" Of the Confederates at Gettysburg
, Hancock talks of their wonderful spirit ~
. nothing could have been more spirited ''-ant
Gen. Pieasanton, describing the disgraceful run
ming away of the Eleventh Army Corps at Chan
cellorsville, accounts for it by the "combine'
effect upon the imagination of the sound o
musketry; the yells of the rebels and their ncreas
ing artillery fire." 1t was a theatrical effec
Stonewall jackson could produce better than an
other man have ever seen on the field of battle
You could tell one of his attacks anywhere-an
!. the turn of the battle was Stonewall Jackson
5 death.
4 Let any one search these volumes through, an
in all the criticisms the victorious armies of tn
North and its strategy, there is no word so heart
U and earnest as these. -- . ..a ..,,-
FIGHTING JOE HOOKER. .. ~
- General Hooker's career, as here illustrated, is
J.. very perpleXed one. He was IN trouble all, tn
: time-before he was in command and afterwards
J.. One of his brigadiers (Gibbon) says that Their
: was certain Indiana oticer--a lieutenant WI
was utterly disqualified for his position not havin
I the first principle of soldier in him. At ANTI
d tam, he was in Washington on sick leave. 'Whe
II he came back to the army he had brlgadier gem
it rails strap onh and then the oommttee asked:
It A. Through the Recommendation of Gener
l. Hooker, which was obtained because pressur
n from very high authority was so strong tnat l
could not refuse. l protested against the appoin
nlent and wrote a letter to the adjutant genera
" telling him the man was totally dlsquailhed.
e Up. All Ia,----s-----e-
It In January, 1868, very high authority mad
a Hooker commander of the army OF the Potomac
y and the President and the war department, full
II set forth IN these volumes, to which no words