The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-29
STONEWALL JACKSON.
An English Mark of Respect to the
Deceased Confederate Hero.

ings and statuary perhaps never before
equalled, either in the number or excel
lence of it's works of art. Nothing, how
ever, among the marvellous creations of
brush, pencil, or chisel is so worthy of
the admiration of the cosmopolitan
American as Foley's statue of Stonewall
Jackson, soon to be sent as a gift to the
State of Virginia. Although it stands
among galleries crowded with meritorious
productions on canvas or in marble, the
mind regards all other subjects with cold
curiosity or vague admiration, tor the
attention is riSeted by this need of
honor to the hero of so many battles,
which at the same time embodies the
highest art of the sculptor. The feeling
may exist in the breasts of our country
men, which in one section would detract
from the valor and worth of the rebel
chi.ftain, and in another, through over
wrought zeal, rank him above Alexander,
Hannibal, Caesar and Napoleon, yet time,
which makes all things even, while as
signing him a proper niche in history,
will not dim the purity of his character
or the glory of his military prowess.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born Of
English parents, whose ancestors first
came to the plantations Of Lord Balti-
more and afterwards endured the priva-
tions and hardships Of frontier lite among
the hills and valleys of Northwestern
Virginia. He first saw the light some
time in 1924, but, early left an orphan
and doomed to taste the gall and hyssop
of dependence, all record of the date of
his birth is lost. Before the age of nine
he left Clarksburg, now in West Virginia,
in company with an elder brother, and
going down the Ohio to the Mississippi,
the boys found employment on a lonely
island in cutting wood for furnace.
From spring to fall no tidings of the
wanderers reached their relatives, in what
is now Harrison County, when boat
captain in his charity brought them to
point on the Ohio, where they were able
to reach an uncle's home but they had
undergone fatigue and sickness so severe
that the elder died, and the younger
never fully recovered from the effects of
this wild freak of childhood. Under the
direction of this uncle, young Jackson
became studious school-boy, fond Of
mathematics, and when quite young was
elected a constable, or executive officer,
for the magisterial district, an office
which probably yielded from twenty to
fifty dollars per annum. At the age OF
IS, such was the character he had estab-
lished, he received strong recommends
ton from the citizens of Clarksburg to
their member at Washington for appoint
ment to cadetship at West Point, step
taken at the suggestion of garrulous
blacksmith while shoeing his uncle's
horse. He went to the National Military
Academy in 1912, and four years later
graduated, at the very time when Gen.
Scott was organizing the powerful force
against Vera Cruz which led to open
hostility with Mexico in 1917. Brevct
second lieutenant Of artillery by virtue OF
his graduation he served at Vera Cruz
and Bucna Vista. At Contreras he
gained honorable mention, which led to
promotion to first lieutenantcy. AS the
American forces moved upon the city OF
Mexico, Captain Magruder, in whose
field battery the young lieutenant fought,
commended his bravery at the storming
of Chepultepec in a letter to Captain
Joe. Hooker, and Jackson was made
brevet major of artillery. Peace having
been declared in June, 1913, Major Jack
son was assigned to garrison duty on
Long Island. After the lapse Of two
wears he was transferred to the coast of
Florida, and in 1851 was elected protes-
sor of natural and experimental phi!oso-
ply and artillery tactics in the Virginia
Military Institute at Lexington over
Mcclellan Rosecrans and others whose
names had been proposed as competitors.
There the breaking out of the rebellion
found him, and as soon as the State
passed the ordinance of secession he
went to Richmond with his cadets. From
colonel of Virginia forces he soon rose
to the command of the celebrated brigade
composed of the End, 4th, 5th, 9th and
33rd Virginia regiments. The name OF
"Stonewa1p was attached to the brigadier
and his brigade from a circumstance
which happened on the field of Manas-
sas, July 21, 1861. General Bee, whose
troops were beaten and driven back, IN
irving to rally the fragments of his COM
mand, exclaimed: "There is Jackson
standing like stonewall." Almost IN
stantly that these words were uttered, the
brave general who spoke them fell dead
with his face to the foe. In October,
1861, Jackson was promoted to the RANK
of major general, and at the time OF his
death the stars Of lieutenant general
were upon his shoulders. His military
career from the first Bull Run to that
fatal evening among the ground oaks at
Chanccllorville, in May, 1868, is too re-
cent and familiar to be traced IN the
columns of daily journal.
When news of the death of Stonewall
Jackson reached England, a movement
arose among persons who took an interest
in the struggle to show the sympathy for
the hero by statue. A small committee
was formed, of which Mr.. J. II. Beresford
Hope, M. P, was treasurer, and MIR.
Gregory, NJ. F., now the Right Honorable
w. H. Gregory, Governor of Ceylon,
Secretary. Among the members OF the
committee were the late Marquis OF
Lothian, Lord Arthur Hall Trevor, Alr.
Street, the architect, and other we'll
known pcrsonagcs. Subscriptions were
raised sufficient for standing statue, and
the work was entrusted to the dlstln-
guished sculptor, John II. Foley, II. A.
i'll health on Mr.. Folcy's part, and de-
sire to make the likeness as perfect as
possible, protracted the work. when 1t
was first started the projectors had the
odv.ntare of the advice of the late JAS.