The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-19
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Sail Lake Tribune.
The statement having been going
around that 'fStonewall" Jsckson would
neither travel nor fight on Sunday, the
Oxford lMe.l Advertiser comes. back with
the following:
aWe think the surviving members Of
the old tenth Maine Regiment can recall
to memory Sunday, the 18th day Of May,
1882 almost three decades ago, when old
Stonswall travelled and fought on Sun
/ day, and had our fearless and etalwart
{ band ON the run from Winshestsrto VII.
sliamsbrrg. How that rebel battery got
the drop on US when few miles from
Winchester, and what terrifying sound
chose scorching shells gave as they came
whizzing through the air so near, and
what shower of knspsacks followed
about that time, and with what sad
hearts We parted with photographs, let
g tsrs and clothing from home as we flung
them away and pressed on! The forced
march wss q trying ordeal to the men,
and some Of Them car.y the effects to this
sday.
'Stonewall Jackson was not Of real
sound mind; that il, his brain was full
'sof kinks. He was sincerely pious lan
and he did not want to either march or
fight on Sunday. In this respect he was
glike Rosencrans. But he could march and
fight all the same on Sunday, and his
body servant, 30 the story runs, was in
the habit Of saying in the morlmgsthat
he knsW they would havea great fight
that day .becauss Massa jackson had
been praying all night"
said shove that stonesal jack.
son was not Of sound mind. We said it
Tor Two reasons. Officers in the United
States army who were familiar with him
) before The war have since reported that
he WAS filed with eccentricities and illu.
sions, and that they never considered him
quite level headed. The other reason is
that he did things in the war which were
simply supernatnrally bright.
s As delicate woman, when insane, Is
stronger than q powerful man; some.
stimesit requires the strength Of two or
sthres powerful men to restrain woman
afflicted Ia that way. In the sanse way
sstonsRall Jackson performed marches,
The fatigue of which, together with the
stlsin which mpanied the handling
sof an army under such circumstances,
would have been beyond the physical
sstrsngth Of any real sane man. All that
does not show chat there Was not plenty
of method In hss madness, fog . great
sman Nas s'stonewsllp jackson. HeNss
theTight ann Of Zee, and xfter he, died
=
ESQ did NOT make one success. BE ws1
TIE Puritan aoldier Of tho South; he
Ifsye6 for men while hs kiIlM them,
and, delicate and sensitive az he WAS By J.
aatnre, he sesmed uttshs iadiHsrsat TO
shs crnslties Of the batslef4ld.: and Els
smlotsn seemed to- heithe same si thas of
49,
4ulus at Lake Regillus:
81 sRomet 20 the Charge" cried Aulus,
The foe begins TO yield;
Charge for the hearth Of Vesta,
Charge for the golden shield.
Let no man stop to blunder,
But Lay, and slay and slay;
The gods who live forever
Af6 on our side to-day.
Z And then i might be added:
s.Behind them Rome's lots battle
Came rolling on the foe
4 Ensigns dancing wild aboTe,
Blades all In line below"