Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-08

did open, the pension roll for their
own kind, so that today the men
who manned the dead line in An
Jacksonville a palisade Of horror,
the ffendish guards who shot down
the starving maniac who crawleil
yard across that limit to snatch
at decaying hone, those human
bloodhounds, have had, if they
had service in the Mexican or In
dian wars, opened up to them the
persion rolls of the nation.
81 have bat little of the time
assigned me left, and can give
you only 81 few names of Exon.
fe1erates who are now on the pen.
sion rolls.
81 find that Samuel Cooper,
colonel and adjutant general of
the United States army, resigned
in March, 1851. That gentleman
served throughout the whole re-
bellion, | believe, as the adjutant.
general of General Lees Army of
Northern Virginia. lie used the
great talents that had been cult.
waited at West Point in trying to
compass the military overthrow of
the United States Government.
His political disabilities under the
fourteenth amendment had not
been removed at the date of his
death. a Democratic Commits.
SiOner Of Pensions, howe .er, ruled
that the fact that he was brcvetted
colonel for meritOrious service
although he never left Washing
ton during the Mexican war
brought him within the require
ment of the act which says:
"Or personally uamed in reSolu
ton Of Congress for specific ser
vicc;' as his brcvet had to be con
tlrmcd by the Senate. 1t was also
ruled that his widow was not, at
the date Of the passage ofthc act,
herself laboring under the diSahil-
tiles referred to i'm the fourteenth
amendment. So the widow of
General Lees Confederate Adult.
ant General throughout the war
has been drawing pension from
the United States Government
since June 6, 1887, under Ccrtifi-
cate No. JIG.
JACKSON.
General Thomas j. jackson:
He was a first lieutenant in the
First United States Artillery. He
resigned Il LONG time before the re.
bellion to take % professorShip in
the Virginia Military Institute,
and commanded its cadets as a
part of the military guard at the
execution of John Brown, Dccem-
her 9, 1859. On the DIST of April.
1861, he marched with his cadets
to Richmond, in response to the
call of Governor Letcher. A few
days later lie was commiss: oned as
colonel Of Virginia Volunteers,
and his service as leader in the
armies of the rebellion are well
known. His widow is not vet on
the pension-roll, tut her applica-
ton is on file, and just as soon as
the age limit is reached the widow
OF StOnewall Jackson will he draw
ing a MeXican-war pension that
United States Government against
which he advocated hosting the
black flag.
II hold i'll my hand another re.
markable book-a volume, not of
northern origin-"The Life and
Letters of Stonewall Jackson" by
his wife, and this reveals another
phase of the kind of warfare to
which our soldiers were subjected.
will not stop to read at any
length, but will incorporate IN my
remarks some portions ofthiS aston
ishing contribution to the history
of that great struggle:
"NIrs. Jackson, in the chapter
headed, The Raising of the Black
fag,' says that :the statement
would be received with the great
est reserve did it not come from
his own brother-in-law. Captai,,