Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
Mai. Jed Hotchklss' Lecture in Boston.

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sons staff. delivered his lecture on Pope's
campaign before the Lowell Institute al
Boston, Mass, on Thursday night. Feb'J
19h. The Boston ''Globe' has long re-
port of it from which we take the intro
ductory portion:
Colonel Jed Hotchkiss Of Staunton, Va
who delivered the second lecture in the
war series in the Lowell Institute course,
last evening addressed an audience than
| which :. larger could not have been crowd
ed into the ample auditorium. His sub
ject was ''Pope's Campaign" but he de-
voted fully the first half Of his lecture to
| setting forth the operations which led to
that campaign. He spoke always chalk
IN hand. sketehing rapidly detailed map
Of the country which maze the seat OF the
movements ne was describing, and show
ing rather than telling his audience just
| how the great events on which he sought
to enighten them came about: For this
| reason connected report OF what he
said would be unntelligible. His expla-
nations Of the campaign and the opera
ton which led up thereto were, however,
unusually minute and clear to an audience
| who could follow his work upon the black
! board.
| He began by saying that he had been
asked to tell the story OF a brief campaign
Of but two short months duration, and
yet a campaign that perhaps had been the
occasion of more comment and OF which
more had been. written than any other
during the late war. He then went on to
outline the positions of the contending
armies in Virginia previous to the opening
of the Pope campaign. One of the princl-
pal objects of the previous campaigns, he
said, was to hold the lines of the Baltl-
more d Ohio railroad, which gave connec-
ii on with the great West, and made it
necessary to hold it in order that the ar
mics might be moved back and forth
across it.
The battles of the year 1861 were but
few in number, because neither side was
prepared to carry on the giga ntic struggle
in which they had engaged. The Feder@l
army held the line of the Potomac as far
up as the great bend near the town of
Hancock, and especially was it c0nceu-
trated at tn town of Frederick in Mary
land. The plans Of the campaign had been
determined and there was to be a simulta-
ne0us forward movement in all parts of
the army. Mr.. Lincoln was jealous of the
protection OF capital, and was quite un-
, willing that any plan OF operations should
be adopted which did not look to its con-
slant protection. This was the idea of
the wise man at Washington. You, my
friends, may have in your heart of hearts
and we, TOO, have one. (Applause.l The
son Of one reared in the Valley of Virgil
MIA, we not only claim him for his Virgil
MIA descent, but we claim him for thuse
grand and enrolling qualities which made
him worthy to rank with Washington as
one of our greatest of patriots. Applause. J
| Not only wise III peace, but wise in war
| In the course CT his remarks Mr.. HOtch-
| kiss touched upon General Banks in a
way that made his audience laugh. Jack
| son crossed the mountain he said, land
! the first that Banks knew, late in the night
| Of the 23i of May, Jackson was upon his
| flank at Port Royal. The next day he
| pushed forward toward Winchester and
| Milton. [ have no time to stop to tell the
story. 1t is sufficient TO say that Banks
concluded that he was in for fight or a
foot race, and he thought he had better
take the foot race. (Laughter.) He made
| good time for Winchester, but he had a
lion in the path behind him. The brave
| Massachusetts Gordon Was there ap-
plause), and all that day and all that night,
| with a will that knew no fiinching and a
courage that was equal TO any emergency,
| he threw his little forces acl oss the road
and kept Jackson at bay, himself in the
fEOnb, until bn0 morning OF Gn6 Z0Gn. w neH
that morning of the 18th came, he held him
in front of Winchester, and covered the
retreat, and on that eveLing-late in the
night-Banks took courage and thanked
God that he was across the Potomac"
Great laughter and applause.l
SPEAKING OF sTONEWALL JACKSON,
the lecturer said: HE was a curious
man, tall and gaunt. and absorbed in the
one idea that he had in mind, and yet he
inspired his men with devotion that per-
haps no other commander ever did. He
Was soldier of soldiers. The content of
his haversack would be revelation. They
were his well-worn Bible, the plain little
Bible OF the Bible society. Napoleon's
maXims OF war and little edition of
Webter's dictionary. This was the equip
ment with which Jackson went forth to
battle"