The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-01-04

dence, to purify our republicanism shatter-
ed our faith in traditional sPectability.-
The heir of Washington went with the rest
of the new chivalry, and with ten times the
talent of that great Fabisu, crushed the
armies Of our own lesser responsibilities,
till he nis Grant a man without pedi-
gree. He was the equal Of Wellington in
msneuVering great bodies of troops upon
small Inferior forces. The Duke Of Water
loo 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 for him, till his whole
force seemed maneuvered by the wink Of
his eye, and every salient that we touched
WAS corps. While the Notifications Of
Richmond stand. his name shall evoke ad-
miration. the art Of var Is unscqu4iused
with any defense so admirable. Splendid
as were the triumphs Of his engineering,
the victories of his infantry were his best
monuments. But over the glory of his
talent fell shadow as eternal as his memo
ry-the frown of resolute Democracy
whose sacrifice, was longer than his art.
-.-..... 5s.. STUART. rr
stood in the cemetery of Hollywood at
the grave Of Stuart-a pace without shaft.
He revoutionized 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
Kilpatric were his imitatOrs He iBaugu-
rated the grand raid which taught Sheridan
I the nothingness Of distance, and embolden
ed Sherman TO tear the continent like a
pocket map. q. ..a--. .-.r.. - -oa
The fervid imagination of the Southern
people, demonstrated in feats of romance
like Stuart's, made them, during the war,
the great suggestive captains. They built
! the FIRST ironclad, made the first Of the great
rides, and under StonewaI jackson execut-
ed the earliest of the great infantry marches.
/ But the colder adaptabIlity of the North de-
veloped every hint from the South into
! perfect system. ''..
The experiment of the Merrimac has
J grown to the Dictator, the Dunderberg and
the IrOusides. The engineering assiduiIy
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 commander has yet arisen to rival
the splendid infantry genius of Jackson.
JACKSON.
AS Lee was master of man@uvre, Jack
/ ha Of
warfare. He combined the cunning and
the boldness of Napoleon. To cover his
great movement by the flank in 1869. he did
not hesitate to fight Pope's whole army with
division, and the celebrity of his march up
the Shenandoah. to appear again on the
field Of Bull Run, was only equalled by the
energy of his attack. He moved infantry
with the speed of cavalry, and having hurl-
ed three great commanders back from the
Old Dominion, died before the lustre of its
arms had diminished in that flush of vic
tory when rebellion had assumed, indeed,
the proportions of nation. -v as
Jackson was the most republican Of reb-
els. stern aud simple as any Roundhead.
and this is why we hold his memory green
er than that of his companions whose de-
fection to the Union was augmented BY
their treason to Popular7institutions.
There were other personages identified
with this grand historical defence, but
these are the great statues-Davis, Lee
jackson, Stuart. Beauregard. .-..... 49,.
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