The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-04-06
stonswall Tackson's Supplies.

Judge ThOS. M. Jones of Pulaski
has a fund of interesting anecdotes
and "reminiscences of the war gath
cred during his residence in Rich
mond as a member of the confeder-
ate congress. Some of the most in
teresting relate to the great and in
yincible Stonewall, whose prowess
upon the field gave him such pres
tige at headquarters that he was
granted privileges of expression
and suggestion that would have
been rejected as insolence coming
from others. President Davis,
as general-in-chief of the armies,
often assumed the direction of de
tails in a campaign that resulted
disastrously. He could not sit in
Richmond and see al the points
upon a field a hundred miles dis
tant. Upon one of his brilliant
campaigns Stonewall was driving
the enemy furiously before him as
usual, anon dashipg in upon his
rear and carrying dismay and terror
to yankee generals and soldiers and
suttlers and teamsters, and all,
when an orderly appeared with or
ders from Mr.. Davis to execute
certain movement. The great gen
eral never took his eyes from the
enemy nor swerYed his lines an
inch, but hating moment said:
Tell. the president to send me
more men and fewer ordersr'
And he proceeded to cut off the
possibility of a reprimand by
achieving another of the great vic
tories that crowned his armies upon
every field.
The gallant Joe Hooker had en-
thused the Respondent northerners
by his memorable saying after he
was advanced to the command of
the Virginia armies. The rebels had
been repelling all assaults and had
whipped their best generals and
were driving their armies back up
on Washington, until everything
was gloomy at the north. Fighting
Joe Hooker was called to the front
and sent to repair the armies.
When he was in full command he
received a communication from the
war office in Washington asking
him where his headquarters where
to be, with a view to determining
where his supplies should be sent. |
Old Joe dated his response:
HEADQUARTERS IN THE SADDLE"
1t flew like fire over the north and |
threw new enthusiasm into the |
dropping energies of the conscript |
Gen. Hooker then pro-
ceeded upon the campaigns that are
in history with which |
his name is connected, but the re-
suits were not as brilliant as his
IacOnic reply augured. Stonewall
Jackson soon got in his rear. All,
a federal general knew what it was
TO have Stonewall Jackson in his
rear! While the redoHbtable and
Stonewall was tearing
and plowing his way from rear to
front and from front to rear of the
federals and chasing them
up and down the valleys of the Old |
Dominion, he too received a note of /
inquiry from his war secretary ask
ng where he wished his supplies
sent. He didn't take time to write
it down, but said: Tell Mr.. Ben
amin he need not give himself any
trouble about my supplies as long
as Gen. Hooker is in command of
.he enemy and has anything to eat
How crushing and cruel was this
70 the Saddle Hero! The sword of
5he Second Corsican never lost
It's cleaning splendor except when
dripping with the blood of his adj
and the stomachs of his
brave soldiers ne'er felt the pangs
of hunger as long as the enemy's
wagon train had any aboard and
here was no one to guard it except
-he general who wrote his orders on
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