The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

%whereupon the division swept forward
in gallant style and reestablished the
broken lines.
/ venture to assert that no such re-
gard would have been shown for the
safet! of any other Confederate com
mander. whether Johnson or Beaure-
gard, or even Jackson himself. If this
deep v~eneration was not inspired by ele-
walton of character and by what is in
definitely styled personal magnetism,
then / am at loss to account for the
fact in the case.
1t was only during the sever days
fight that the main body of the army
came to recognize Jackson in person.
His photographs do not give an adequate
idea of the man. They do not mark
him apart as a leader of men, and show
that inherent fitness for high participa-
tion in the events of that epoch which
the chances of war had brought to light.
Says n of his men: ut would have
been easy to have mistaken him for the
courier Of one of his brigadiers, for all
external tokens to the contrary;
his single breasted coat of rusty
gray, sun. scorched about the shoulders
until ii was almost yellow, and his plain
cadet-cap, of the same hue, tilted
forward until the visor rested almost
upon his nose, were meaner III appear
ance than the makeup of many q smart
fellow whose musket was the badge of
his station, and not o quatermaster IN
the crops but would have considered
Jackson's gaunt old sorrel a bad swap
for his own nag. But the bright and
piercing look of his steel-blue eyes.
when one could get a glimpse Of them
under the cap brim. the firm set of his
lips, and the impatient jerking of bis
arms from time to time told of the eager
working of the energetic soul within
And the description is u true n to the
letter.
After the seven DAYS battle, when
ever there was great cheering on any
part of the line, it used to be said by
the listeners: ut either Jackson or s.
rabbit" Now the meaning Of this was
that whenever a rabbit wa started IL
the bivouac of q brigade the entire com
plement of officers and men would turn
out to pursue bunny, and by heading
him off here and turning him there poor
bunny, who in the end would become
bewilderod by the diabolical yells and
cheers that met him at every turn, was
generally captured. Now Gen. Jack
son Stunned, if he could, the demon
s~tration which greeted him whenever
he passed a camp of his own crops or OF
Longstreet's. The men would gather
on the roadside, waving their hats and
yelling like demons, the yells being
taken up from camp to camp, rs "Old
Jack" went s~kurrying along on his old
sorrel as fast as he could lay
his feet to the ground. There was a
spice of mis~ohievousness In this,
for soldiers are like school
boys, and they knew how badly Jack
son hated notoriety, but their admira-
ton and enthusiasm for him were such
that they would have charged the very
gates of Hades at his bidding. Never
we're more genuinely sorrowful tears
shed than those that fell from the eyes
of his army on Jackson's bier.
/ recollect that just before the battle
of fredericksburg (Burnside's) Gen. j.
e. b. Stuart presented Jackson with q
brand new uniform covered with gold
lace and stars, and us gaudy as q pea
cocks train. jackson had never worn
it, but on the morning Of the grand as
sault Stuart had persuaded him to put
it on. Accompanied by Stuart and
some Of his staff, he rode slowly in front
of the Confederate lines, from right to
left, but he was not recognized until he
reached Pickett's division, then placed
in the center of the line. Stuart mis-
c~hievously pointed out the gorgeous
looking individual TO some officer Of the
division, and it ran down the line like
wildfre. "Old Jacks got a new uni
forml" Instantly the men leaped upon
the b~reastworks. yelling wildly and
swinging their hats, until jackson could
bear it no longer, but. turning q re-
proachful look upon Stuart, he clapped
spurs to old sorrel and galIoped off to
his own command. Suffice it to say, he
pulled his new buds off as soon as he
had an opportunity.
Now, who can explain the philosophy
of it? Neither Johnston, nor Beaure-
gard, nor Longstree nor Hill, nor
Early. nor even Jeh saart we're eTef
looked upon by the army in the same
light as Lee and jackson. And yet all
these officers were worthy OF enthusiast
tic admiration and undinehing support.
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