The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-05-16
BENTON, La, MAY Is, 1895.

Milroy, Mcdowell, Fremont, Pope,
Burnside, Mcclellan and Hooker
will be the everlasting, but unwilling
witnesses to his unconquerable
genius.
His Valley campaign has never
been surpassed in the annals of war.
For conception and execution it is
only equaled by the Silesian cam-
paign of Frederick, and the italian
campaign of the Young Napoleon.
In it, he routed four Generals and
annihilated four different armies,
each numerically greater than his
own, and, then, by fastening to the
relief of Lee, he hurled his forces
upon the flank of McClelland and
utterly routed his large army.
His rear attack on Pope at the
second Manassas is unparalleled in
war for audacity and success. His
flank attack on Hooker at Chancel-
lorsville, in which he lost his life,
drove that general from his own for
tifcations bowling with rage and
despair, and once more saved the
struggling Confederacy.
Jackson was fatalist, and the
same unfaltering belief in destiny
which prompted Napoleon to brave
the rigor of a Russian winter, promp
ted him to expose himself to great
and unnecessary dangers.
At West Point, Jackson exhibited
no characteristics of greatness. In
the Mexican war, he was promoted
for gallant conduct on two or three
occasions. After that war, he was
appointed Professor at the Virginia
Military Institute, and was there only
distinguished for piety and eccen-
tricity. But when the Civil War
broke out in all of its fury, then it
was that his hitherto latent genius
shone like a bright meteor shooting
across the armament, outshining all
lesser lights by its greater effulgence.
At first Manassas, he attracted the
attention of the world by his stead
fastness and fixedness, and his sub
sequent brilliant and overwhelming
charge with his brigade, which, to-
gether with the simultaneous attack
of Kirby Smith, gained that great
victory for the Confederates. From
this time his promotion was rapid,
and he was given the command of
the Valley Department, where he
achieved that reputation which has
encircled his name with a halo Of
immortality.
His campaigns are too we'll known
for me to recount them here; but we
will follow him to Charlottesville,
where we find him engaged in his
favorite mode of attack, and where,
through in utter disregard of his own
safety, and through inexcusable
carelessness on his part, he fell by
the hands of his own people, while
performing the duty of q scout.
Having posted Gen. Jim Lanes brig
ade and ordered to advance, he rode
to the front to observe the federal
position, accompanied by some men,
bers of his staff, when, being fred
upon by the enemy, he retired in
haste towards his own line, and his
men, supposing that they were being
charged by the cavalry of the enemy,
fred volley severely wounding the
General. Gen. Lane, in his official
report, says: 4 have always thought
that Gen. jackson was wounded by
the 18th regiment of my brigade,
and they we're not to blame, as they
had been told that none but the ene-
my was in their front. It was always
the habit of this great commander
to expose himself unnecessarily, and
he seemed to think his presence nec-
essary on the line of battle. He
would often sit on his horse under
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