The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-13
JACKSON AND LEE.
tTCRlES Of TWO or THE coNFEp
sRAcNrS GREAT GENERALS.

SNsthEc l. IL not, tndt jackson, Ike
sherman, should have been considered
crazy the FIRST year of the warp Indeed,
before the war 50 eccentric was he that he
was called Crazy Jack at the Virginia
Military institute. Nobody seemed 20 nm.
derstand him. But so It has ever been
and ever will be-when we ordinary NOR
tails can't comprehend genius we get
even with him by calling him crazy.
l remember well how uneasy some Of the
Confederate generals werc when placed
under .IackSon's command i'm carly 1862
Ewell didn't like it and Dick Taylor
didn't like It, They were afraid Jackson
would lead them into some awful sclUVC
or other. Ard when Ewell, with his dii-
sion, was lying near Gordonsville i'm late
April, 1862, but subject To Jackson's or
ders, kwell and Taylor were very anxious
10 get from under him either To go down
To Joe Johnston at Yorktown, or TO have
some general sent To the valley who would
rank with jackson. SO, at Taylors in
stance he was sent to Richmond by Ewell
TO see Mr. Davis, his brothCr-in law, and
Mr.. Benjamin, then secretary of state, hut
recently secretary of war, about getting
away from jackson. But while TAYLOR
a-running" TO the valley The camp he
had left in the morning at Swift River
Gap, on the northwest side of the Blue
Ridge, Ewell occupied that night Jack
son was gone, he knew not where The
valley campaign had opened. He was max
ing his strategic detour back southwest
over the Blue Ridge toward Charlottes.
vile, hence west by rail past Staunton
m Rttff o1 la IN nd
long marches To Mcdowell, where he
struck Milroy. But there we were for
few days at Swift Run Gap without hear.
ing a thing of jackson. General Ewell
may have known where he was, but !
doubt it,
Meanwhile Taylor returned from Rich.
mond to the old camp near Gordonsyille
to find that Ewell had gone to Jackson in
the valley. Taylor was thunderstruck.
One of his commands happened to be lit.
tie way out from camp on the road toward
Gordonsyille when Taylor came rafting
down the mountain side in his ambulance
He asked me what meant General Ewell's
being ordered to the valley. / told him
did not know He then asked me where
General jackson was j again had to con
fess my ignorance and could only say that
he had broken camp on certain morning
going with his own division southwest, no
one seemed to know where, and that Gen
eral Ewell occupied his camp that night
and bad been there ever since.
well, said Taylor this is strange.
Nobody ut Richmond knows anything
about l.. Lat, he added, there is one
We won't be under this
Id cid crazy fool longer. General
Longstrcet Is coming up here to take com
mand "
1t was too late, however, to change com.
jackson was then fighting Nil.
roy Tar To the west Of us. He probably
never know low rear he came 10 missing
his great fame in Tie valley, and that in
hat campaign he not only dcfoatCo iO,n
Federal commanders but "outiiankoG'
two cf his own lest generals ana tic |
folks Lack al Richmond
jackson GiS;UritG lis Ia. mediate sulGr-
iinl ties Y never telling them his plans or |
consulting them. They had simply To fol. |
IN" him b.iLCly lie Ic>,r cxl .aincd any |
lr0I osCd cGmlagn To subordinate or
allied a council Cf war or asked advice |
soon after l.well join, Il Linn in the valley |
remember riding with General Taylor |
md coming upon Gtntr.I Ewcll TaylCr
lskcd him what tie movement meant In
his curt, half abstracted way Ewcll re |
llicd: Il don't know If General jackson |
we're shot down, wouldn't know thing
If his plans. " What" said Taylor. "You
second in command and don't know? If i |
we're second in command, | would know"
You would, would you!" smiled Ewell
N his odd way, holding his head to one
Tide like sap sucker pccping around a
rec. "No, you wouldn't know any more
han L do now. You don't yet know the
nan" But Ewell and Taylor found their
crazy, reticent commander TO have more
var sense than all of them put together.
so they ever pinned their faith to him, adj
nired him and loved him.
Our great General Lee was the victim of
IN indigestion, and il cost the south dear
{ lost us the battle of Gettysburg. The
lattle of Gettysburg is singular excep-
ion TO General Lees battles. 1t wasn't
Lee who fought it. 1t shouldn't
cunt against him. His usual skill is
Wanting at Gettysburg There must be n
ausc for 1t. He was sick, and not in pos
session of his usual cquanimity and fine
mental powers. Those near him at the
ime tell us this, and from some of them
he story of how il came about has leaked
nut.
rinia apjacks-wondrous cakes of African
nvention-thin us a wafer and big nearly
is IA cart wheel, and when made of new
lour and served hot, with fresh butter
md maple molasscs and folded and folded,
ayers thick are feast for the gods But
General Lee, the besta and tcnderest of men
is well as the greatest, hadn't il in his
ieart to fare wcll-much as his ample
means would have allowcd-whcn his men
we're suffering for food, and If one wanted
poor dinner he had only to drop i'm on
General Lee Mt that hour. He lived but
title better than his men. This greatly
disturbed his darky cook, and when the
'rmy advanced into Pennsylvania, flowing
With milk ana honey and other good things
'diblc, he said, well, Ize gwine to git
omething good for Marsc Robert for once,
4 he never gifts none no mo-" So, Skin
nishing around, he got up the necessary
Ingredients for the generals favorite cake.
The darby, in his pride as chef and zeal
)us love for his master, outdid himself on
hat Both of June. The cakes were too
tempting. The general ate too plentifully,
was sick accordingly, and Gettysburg was
ost. The Niger and the fiapjacks saved
he Union Some time ago IL was the
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