Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-24

street. and his greeting here was lust as
cordial as with General Lee. lie then turn
Ell and looked, as one may say, interrOoa-
lively at General Jackson.
w hen Mr.. Davis first entered tie room
| recognized INN and told General jackson
who he was. General Jackson believed that
during the campaign through Bath and
Romney with General Loring, President
Davis had treated him badly Indeed. the
treatment that General Jackson received
from Mr.. Davis on that occasion made him
resign his commission. and this resignation
was only prevented from going into effect
by very strenuous effort on the part of Gov
ernor Letcher. There were other things
which made Jackson think that Mr.. Davis
had treated him unfairly. He had made
some men whom jackson ranked, outrank
him as lieutenant general, and there were
many other circumstances which caused
Jackson to feel rather resentful toward MI
Davis, SO when | told him who the visitor
was he stood bolt upright, like ii corporal
on guard, looking at MI. Davis. Not a
muscle in his body moved. General Lee,
seeing that Nh. Davis didn t know General
Jackson, said: why, President, don t you
know Stonewall Jackson? This is our
Stonewall Jackson MI. Davis started to
greet him, evidently, as warmly as those
he had just left, but the appearance of
ctChDul pbOpDCu Hill. bllu WilC1l uC got
about a yard MI. Davis halted and Jackson
Immediately brought his hand up to the
side of his head in military salute MI
Davis bowed and went back to the other
company i'll the room.
HE FOUND HER BOY FOR HER.
"To show Jackson S great kindness and
consideration fol- even poor and ignorant
people, | remember all incident which hap
pened in the Valley OF Virginia while the
troops were marching up the Valley turn
pike.
''As jackson rode along with his staff he
was accosted by poor, plain country wo-
man to know if he was Mr.. Jackson and
if the troops in the road We're his 'cOmpa-
n.y. She had brought two or three pair of
stockings and some little provisions for her
son, who, she told General Jackson, was in
his company The army then probably
consisted of thirty thousand men. 1t was of
course made up Of divisions, brigades and
regiments, and great many companies.
but this woman only knew that her son
John belonged to Jackson S company and
she expressed a great deal Of surprise when
General jackson told her that he didn't
know her boy. What she said, dom It you
know John -? lie has been with you
Il year, and brought HIM these socks and
something to cat She began to CRY bitter
ly.
''Some members of the staff were dis
posed to laugh, but Jackson stopped them,
got down from his horse and tried to ex-
plain to the woman how it was impossible
that he should know her son, a simple pri-
waite in the ranks, but she persisted he must
know him, and she must see him, and that
she had spent great deal of time in fixing
these things for him. He asked her what
county the boy came from. He sent for
Colonel Pendleton and asked him what
companies were in his army from that
county. He then sent three OF four court
ers to each one of the companies from that
county, and found the boy and brought him
| to the woman, who gave him the presents
she had for him. Probably he spent all
hour altogether in doing this deed OF real
charity.
VISIT TO THE DYING GREGG.
Il remember when General Gregg, of
South Carolina, was shot at fredericksburg
an interesting incident occurred. General
Jackson had had some misunderstanding
with Gregg-What it WAS [ have forgotten:
but the night after this gallant soldier and
splendid gentleman was mortaly wounded
| told General Jackson, as | usually did, as
far us | knew, of friends and prominent
men killed and wounded. l had gotten to
headquarters right late and found the Gen
eral awake. Among others | mentioned
General Gregg's case. He said: Il wish
you would go back and see him. Tell him
[ want you to see him. | demurred lit
tie, saying it hadn't been very long since |
had seen him: that he was mortally wound
ed, and that there was nothing to be done
for him. He said: Il wish you would 90
and see him; tell him [ sent YOU So l
mounted my horse and rode to the Y erby
| HnuCp and (,nnara1 (trarr who
slowly getting worse, and delivered the
message. | had hardly gotten out of the
room into the hall when | met General
Jackson, who must have ridden very close
behind me to have reached there SO soon. He
stopped me, asked about General Gregg and
went into the room to see him. No one else
was in the room. What passed between
these two officers no one will ever know. !
waited for him and rode back to camp with
him. He didn't speak a word on the way.
When we got to the camp he looked up at
the sky for a moment and said: GLOW hor-
rible is war!' | said: Horrible, yes; but
we have been invaded. What can we do p
DO = he said. and his manner was savage
and his voice ringing. DO? Thrash them!'
FIRM BELIEVER IN STATES RIGHTS.
jackson believed in States rights; he
believed in the sovereignty of Virginia; he
secede when she joined the Union, and that
the North had no right Of any kind to force
Virginia back into the Union. He hated
no individual mediterranean one, SO far
as | knoW-but he hated the whole North
ern race. He told me once that he had but
one objection to General Lee, and that was
that he did not hate the ankles bad
enough that Lee was the only man he knew
that he would follow blindfolded.
GOOD SLEEPER.
''Thinking about JackSons propensity
to sleep, remember after the battles Of the
seven days fight around Richmond one
Sunday we went to DR.. Hoge's church. He
went to sleep soon after the service began,
and slept through the greater part of it. A
man who cargo to sleep under DE-. Hoge S
preaching can go to sleep anywhere oil the
face of the earth. When the service was
over the people climbed over the backs Of
the peWs to get near him, and the aisle be-
came crowded and General jackson embar-
raised. Presently he turned to me and
said: Doctor didn't you say the horses
were ready?' and | said, " s, sir and we
bOlted out of the church.
MANY night l have kept him on his
horse by holding on to his coat-tail. He
always promised to do as much for me when
he had finished his nap. He meant to do it
L am sure, but my turn never came.
ut was told that ut Il council of WAL held
by Lee, Longstreet and Jackson that the
last named went fast asleep, and when
reused and dimly conscious that his opin-
ion was asked he cried out: Drive them
! into the river
SIMPLE HABITS.
His habits Of life were very simple He
preferred plain, simple food, and generally
ate right heartily of it. Corn bread and
: butter, and milk always satisfied him. He
used no tobacco and rarely ever drank any
whiskey OF wine. One bitter cold night at
Dam No. 5, on the Potomac river, when
we could light no fires because OF the prox-
unity of the enemy, gave him drink of
whiskey. He made a WY face in swallow