The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-10-14

OF Gen J ackson's headquarters. The Gene
raj sat at the preachers right hand on
backless camp stool. As the sun was very
hot and there was no shade, he held his cap
in his right hand between his head and the
sun, his reverence not permitting him 10
place it on his head, az many Others did
theirs. With his hand elevated in that
way, he peacefully glided of into dream
land and slept without moving his arm or
nodding once, until the noise OF the closing
exercises startled him into consciousness
again. The truth is, Gen. Jackson always
looked as if he were asleep; and even when
walking he had the appearance Of a SOM
nambulist.
Jackson, while he was a gentle, beneyo-
lent man, and an extremely urbane and Po-
lite man, was also a very grave man. And
it was said in Lexington that the only time
any one ever saw him laugh was when the
| war broke out. But this story was probably
| apocryphal, Tor i was informed on good
authority that he viewed the commence
ment Of hostilities with grief and horror.
He had seen service in Mexico, and he as
sured the people of the villa e, who were
boiling over with the war spirit, that they
! did not know what war was, or their re-
joicing would be turned to wailing.
Ii is singular thing in the retrospect
that the Southern people were SO well aware
that jackson was
STUPID OUNCE OF A FELLOW,
| that even his brilliant successes did not en-
tirely convince them that he could be
trusted. He was made colonel and ac-
quilted himself 50 handsomely that they
made him brigadier; but the opinion OF
| his friends was that he was advanced too
quickly, and that he would prove fail
ure; and the very same opinions were reit-
Grated when he was made majo general
and Jieutenant-general. And, notwith-
standing all the adoring admiration with
which the Southern people cherish his
memory to-day, they sill think he never
could have taken Lees place. 1t is my
opinion, however-and think his whole
career bea-s me out in it-that he would
have been far more successful as command
er-in-chief than he was as lieutenant-gener-
al, and more so by fer than Lee was. His
ability never had field wide enough to
exert itself in.
Jackson's military character was a very
| strong one, totally unlike that of any of
the great generals of modern times. Its
peculiarities lay in its simplicity. Jackson
| was never known TO devise q complicated
camnaign. Gen lees nlans consisted of a
| hundred nar,s and aItboupb they were
| connected with cons,mate ability some of
| them ALWAYS broke down on the dav of hat
\ tie Bnt Jaclson,s strategy consisted sim
NV in reaching some noint before his on
Moment had the slightest idea he could do
it, and then fight him with a good deal of
dash All bis wonderful fea.s were accom-
nI;.bed Inv ran;J macb;ne,v on that the
res, Of his army usad IN call his troons
"J,cLson,s foo, cavalrv,n And II Is a
| very s;nyuIor fac. that aI,bo,ob the Ed
oral generals Lnew that JacEson w.s "a
| Acct .s the ,,;nd and vere .lvavs matino
aIlowances in their own mans for his e..
,r,orJ;n,rv r,n;d;,v 81 r,ovement be CON-
timed 70 the day III his death IN snrnr;se
them in the same wav When Leo was
matino ready IN at.sct Mcclellan in front
Of Richmond. I was in that devoted city.
and i remember distinctly that when the
citizens thought that jackson was in the
lower valley, be was within sixteen miles
OF the city, and the next day fell on Nc
| Clellan's right like
THUNDERBoLr FROM A CLEAR SKY.
| J.cLs,,,s necul;ar mod. os bv s,r-
prises was illustrated the very first time til at
| he was intruSted with an independent
/ command. Soon after the first battle of
| Bull Run, when Jackson was Brigadier,
Gen. Joe johnson put him in command of
one or two brigades and sent him from
Manassas Junction over The Blue Ridge,
into the valley of Virginia, to hang around
Winchester, chiefly as an army of obsorva-
ton Jackson no sooner reached Winches-
ter than he learned that Milroy with a
large force was strongly intrenched at Ber-
| rvville. fifty miles of. Considering that. in
addition to his earthworks, the weather was
pl.'eI coo, the roo.s steP IN me ground
coNeiea WIN snow, anu JACKSON men very
PONY M niiIo. ueSSteu himself en'iI Re
~ 70 paying eechie. but one morning ne
i II ou' VI ms le:lt anu 81" o'9heM ",
'"c hsoh iIiel , ,riiins up lhe roau. Inc
i n "as 'hat Itiilot army was chased
M :H'i anu, 'achson pursuing 'heih VIII
'i'' iiAeu discrimination oi
GOING To WASHINGTON.
But JEFF. Davis, who regarded himself as
the only great General in the South, learn
| ing OF Jacksou's exploit, and inferring most
assuredly that he was crazy, sent hasty
telegram 10 him 10 come back :" in answer
TO which it is said that the indignant Stone
wall sent him word to send him "more men
and fewer orders" In order to effect the
surprise Of Milroy, Jackson had marched
and frozen a large number Of his men to
death, and the rest OF them reached Perry
vile in Il pitiable condition Of weakness