The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-15

get them home and have our armies go
to their homes and fields. But Lee
would not move without Davis, and, as q
matter of fact at that time, or soon after,
Davis was fugitive in the woods"
JEFFERSON DAVIS AND. THE SOUTH.
An allusion was made to the feeling in
the South that Davis was an injury to
the Confederacy and did not do his best.
81 never thought 80, said the General.
ttDayis did his best-did all that any man
could do-to save the Confederacy. This
argument is like some of the arguments
current in history-that the war was q
war against windmills, and that if one
man or another had been in authority
the result would have been different;
that some more placable man than Davis
aeould have made "a better fight This is
not true. The war was q tremendous
war, and no one knows better than those
who we're In it. Davis did all he could
and all any man could for the South.
The South was beaten from the begin
ming. There was no victory possible for
any government resting upon the plat
form of the Southern Confederacy. just
as soon as the war united and aroused
the young men Of the North and called
out the National feeling, there was no
end but the end that came. Davis did
all he. could do for his aide, and how
much he did do no one knows better
than those who we're in the field"
sToNEwALL JACKSON.
Your correspondent asked the General
how he ranked Jackson among soldiers.
.tI knew Stonewall Jackson" said the
General, sat West Point and in Mexico.
At West Point he came into the: school
at an older age than the average, and
began with q low grade. But he had SO
much courage and energy, worked SO
thard and governed his life by discipline
| SO stern, that he steadily worked his way
along and rose far above others who had
more advantages. Stonewall Jackson at
West Point was in a state of constant i'm
pro5ement. He was a religious man
then. and some of us regarded him as a
fanatic. Sometimes his religion. took
strange forms pochondria --fancies
that an evil spirit had taken possession
] Of him. But. he neEer relaxed in his
lstudies or his Christian duties. / knew
him in Mexico. He was always brave
and trustworthy oficsr-none more so IN
the army. / never knew him orencoun-
tered him in the rebellion. l question
whether his campaigns in Virginia jus.
| tify his reputation as great commander.
| He was Killed too soon, and before his
rank allowed him great command. II
would have been a test of generalship il
! Jackson had met Sheridan in the valley
| instead of some of the men he did meet.
/ From all know of Jackson and all see
of his campaigns ] have little doubt OF
the result. If Jackson had attempted
on Sheridan the tactics he attempted SO
successfully upon others he would moi
only have been beaten but destroyed
Sudden, daring raids, under g fine gen,
| eral like Jackson, might do against raw
troops, and inexperienced commanders
such as we had in the beginning of the
\ war, but not against drilled troops and q
/ commander like Sheridan. The tactics
1 for which jackson is famous, and which
achieved such remarkable results, be.
4 longed entirely to the beginning Of the
| war. and to the peculiar conditions unde:
which the earlier battles were fought
They would have insured destruction to
any commander who tried them upon
Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Meade, or
i IN fact, anySofJ our great generals. Con.
iseduently Jackson's fame as general
4 depends upon achievements gained be-
fore his generalship was tested--before
he had chance of matching himself
with a really great commander. Nc
doubt so able and patient man Ms Jack.
son, who worked SO hard at anything he
attempted, would have adapted himseli
to new conditions and risen with them
| He died before his opportunity. al.
ways respected Jackson personally and
esteemed his sincere and manly charac'
ter. He impressed me always as man
of the Cromwell stamp-a Puritan
much more of the New Englander than
1 the Virginian. IF any man believed in
the rebellion, he@did. And this nature
was such that whatever he believed in
became deep, religious duty-a duty
he would discharge atiany cost. 1t is q
mistake to suppose that 1 ever had any
feeling for Stonewall Jackson but respect
Personally, we were always good friends
This character had rare points of merit
and although he made the mistake Of
Fighting against his country, if ever q
man Gid So conscientiously he was the
man" y
LEE AS A COMMANDER.
This led to remark as to the great
and universal fame Of Lee especially in