The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-26

"Army of the Shenandoah" Colonel jack
son WAS placed in command OF the brigade
with which bis E.nle was henccforth lden.
titled. His honorable part in toe sk'liul
movement by which our great Sirategist
| General joluston} eiuGed Patterson aud
FASTENED to the reIet of EeauregaId at Ma.
n3ssaS, and the ability and cool courage WITH
which be fought his brigade and won bis I'M.
perlshable sojriqvst S:onewall" on those
historic plains. are TOO well known 10 require
anv detailed account.
lie had been made bri-adicr soon after the
a!l'.ir at Falling Waters. and the 1st OF OctC-
Der. 1861, be was commissioned m,i ,r-gene-
raj and sent to commlnd the "NalIey Dis.
trict." His fr, uIent marches from point TO
p)int. and bis expedition 10 Bath and Rom
nty, which bv a sudden change OF Inc ~ea-
tner was rendered ore Of the Tost terrible
marches On recold wll not be forgotten by
those VINO participated in then.
HIS ,esrn .tion or his commission when
the Sscselary OF War (Mr. lie j mrnl -et ue1
disposed TO manage ths affairs OF bis depTt-.
ment without colsultirg nlm, and bis refusal
TO withdraw his resignation until the proper
explanations were mad his reluc'aot win
drlTLl from Winchester on the lin Oh
March, 'G2, before overwhelming numbers
cf the eremy, aad his bold atta,k and heroic
f:ht at Kerastown. lt,S 231 OF May, D7
which he recall The Federal co'umn when
was moyiug through the noun aids 10 stlihe
Johnstou's fl lnk as he fell back from Man!s-
sas, are all matters Of history which can o2
read ia detail in the books.
The ability of his strategy. the celebrity of
his movem ents, and the heroic conra"e win
which (.tter being j)ired by E|eIPs vete-
Il 10 cfrnfl Miray at Medic WE H..
Banks a; Front Royal, Mdd'eburg, and
Winchester, Fremont ut Cross keys, and
Shields st Port Republic, will be the study
of military critics in ages TO come.
AID so his rapid and secret movement to
Richmond, ard the part be bore in%he glori-
ous "se,en days blttles" which raised the
siege of our beautiful city and sent Met lei
Ian bleeding and crippled 20 the c>ver of bis
supboat<, Is indellbly written in the memo
ries CT our people, and need not be rccited
here.
jackson was now made Lientenant.Gene-
raj and placed in command Of the old SecoCd
CORPS, while Lepgstreet commanded The
First.
II uuickeus the pulse and thrills the heart
of Lees old veterans as th'y think cvec at
this day of the glorious cimpligu which fol-
lowed of how our great chieftain sent Jack.
son to meet the advance of the biaggsrt
Pope, and handle his cid friend Bioks so
roughly at Cedar Run mountain; OF how
Jackson executed his brilliant movement TO
Pop,'s rear, and forced hlm despite his
genersl order>) to have some regard 10 lines
of retreat; OF how General Lee came up
nith the rest Of the army and crushed Pope
on the pjaips o. Manassas OF Out % uch in'o
Mar, lard: of Jatk;on's cipture OF Harper's
Ferry with eleven thousand prisoners. sew
enty-three pieces of artillery, g.; OF sbnrps.
burs, where, with less toan thirty thousand
men of all arms, we met McCls,lin's eighty,
seven thousand and successfully resisted
every attack spd Fredericksburg. where.
on Tie Is of December. The glorious cam
paigu was closed with another splendid VIC.
iory m on the plains which northern writers
have aphy named Buraside's slaughter.
pen.o