The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-30

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equal" Equal in what respect he does
not say. 1t is;a well known fact that
Gen. Grant never risked battle without
having from two to four times as many
men as his opponent. He then never LET
stonewall jackson get hold on him.
Although the Union forces we're repeat
edly driven in headlong flight, in very
few instances does he say So, They most
always "retreat in good order" The
Confederates generally retreat .sin utter
rout." At'the battle of Bull Run he
simply puts the Northern soldiers "actosu
the Long Bridge at Washington" when
we have positive proof that many Of them
did not stop until safe with their NAM
mas on the hills of Pennsylvania.
The kind historian turns off the story
of Jackson in the Shenandoah in one short
paragraph. He tells OF Fremont, Banks
and Mcdowell being sent "to trap
Stonewall, then leaves avague impression
on hislreader that they did not succeed.
Never q: word does he say Of how
soundly jackson tbreshed Fremont at
Cross Keys. Fremont WAS simply
"hurled off," and that is all. Says he
again: "Shields struck him at Port Re-
public the next day, but was driven BACK
Eve miles, while Jackson made good his
escape from the Shenandoahvalley, :hav-
ing burned the bridges behind him."
The truth inlthis case is hatJacksonshad
crossed the river before fighting Shields,
and when they did come together Shields
was SO nearly, annihilated that we hear
very little more Of Gen. Shields" during
the whole war. Although given some
whatito complimenting Northern men,
he keeps, the virtues of the other side.
carefully out of view. He even turns off
the death Of the grandest, of all soldiers,
Stonewall Jackson, in foot note Of four
short lines. ,a,,f f..,.f.5
The atrocities Of Ben Butler in New
Orleans. are carefully; u suppressed. The
appellation Of aBntler the Beast" would.
not sound veil for the Federal cause,
ho Tever we'll deserved, .iTheinstances of
this kind, where the Confederates uhave
suffered at the hands Of the historian far
more than from injuries the Yankees
ever inflicted on them, are entilely too
numerous to mention in q short article
like this. Any one who reads may see
for himself.
7 Will the day sver come when the
ChristisnIike soldiership of Robert E.
Lee, OF the heroism of ''stonewall" Jack.
son. cease to be related in the Southern
school room .t~.The tendencyis certainly
in that direction, and it hurts to. think
about it.
Generation, after generation will pass
away; history after history will be writ.
ten unit! finally The chzonielegs will haye
all the brave men patriots and heroes in
the Union army, with the fools, towards,
scallawags and rebels linked on to the
Conederacy. The schoolboy Of 1925
wih-pfobably read just such a thing in
his history.
The Cen6ederatsssoldien. fought for
what they belissgdts bdright. No one
has ezeredareadiEcia5s asttsm Is a common
mob. In very few instances were they
qually'matched with their foes, yet in a
FAST majoritySof battles we're they unde.
niably q yictoFiopsY The object of the
Northern press seems to be to depreciate
thet Coafederates and 1 s!heiEI 5 &C cceause, and
teach the young that patriotic defense
of their own homes was vulgar instance
Of slave fighting bis master.
N9 respect fog sopthsen chivalry, and
psra Sheaially raara aallen heroes, will
not some historian rise up and furnish
oar Observation-Disclosures aneimpartial
story of the Cua Var, telling the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
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