The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-11-05
JACKSON'S BATTLE FAG
A BAf0NET CHARGE WAS TO Elm hs
RAPTURE OF THE STRIFE.
His Remarkable Prophecy--TB. eve
Iayed Message to the Six Resi-
Brigades at Oaines's MiIft

| DAVIDSON. October 22.-pf, wher
tie chapel of Davidson Colles "is, an
morning prayers are daily H,aoa HeMe'oase Use
where many of the publ:c p,a1e' wa
of campus and village take, Iau.i,. nu netn' In
the scene ofa noteworthyiinpf e,f forth % %
orable occasion today. s i'rtl o
fore 8 o'clock, at the pa { restiul quiet
the college bell upon tteDei al.ernooh
ude of an ideal Octo .r1 'SSeholeo
student body and villa y. H. naoncy' =.
to hear the Rev. Rob e1 pnah: Ill ,n. n'h'
d. D., venerable fad ;s.u, neSHy'ellan n %
istry cf the Southe' n's'ry hy Davlason
chufshof 6as rel s.. which his lecture a por npon
."m, "s 'cl c 1'A uSeaue ,. While the audi.
StonoUaiI s s, I.oIa,hc .,,hhc venerable servant
e91s en- GdS gathered the &c hons his He ea"s nDs
trum b;s r;nht bd forward, the Slight
his heaJ ;ncl;nA. the snow-whitc, pat
less s a orss % c1osa falling upon his breast.
r;arcI.I hoar,b be engaged in ceaselcss
lie seemed Jailed wildly to mind the
nravcr and thc aged I-rael. in his last
pietur, ofac hieroglyphcd Egyptian
.;,vs - tsss he ''worshippcI, leaning
chamber s9p Of his staff" But as
mon tho greet his audience, which
he rose try niche of space in the
filled ev| kraightening for the moment
chanel * of age from his tall form,
tho croo{ {ered in its best days like a |
that tor1g sycamore, he wa, trans
t;n.,oc;1 1t was moment Of rcsur-
formed f age into youth. Greeting
rection encc unseen by himself, and
his anae Eating himself, while he con-
then . his masterly address to its
timed sion, he formed the centre of a
concl 1g picture that will. l..I.AIA--Sr-aav
s,r;L;( The minds Of those who saw it.
If;d love for Stonewall jackson
,mou, Its to passion. His car worn
face li& &htcd up with happin, as he
lived o&cr again the stir: ( battle
scenes oR the soil of the Ola Domin-
;on anA as his thoughts clustered
lov;nolv {around the memory of the
SoutGcrn\ \hcro, expression leaped into
his sichtlSss eyes and they flashed
with the ( sheet-lightning they had
once seem in meeting those of his
great commander on the old Virginia
battlefelds. i
In the audience we're veterans and
manv visitors from several adjoining
counties.
The lecture was opened with a beau
tiful prayer by fhe Rev. Alfred 4.
Graham, whose parents we're lifelong
friends of DR.. Datney, and who en-
.e.;alncd MIN while lie was in Win
chester during the fighting there
President Shearer introduced the
lecturer in appropriate words.
A TRIDurElo MRS. JACKSON.
Rising to greet his applauding aud,
itors, and then again seating himself,
DIR. Dabney began by stating that he
had been Jackson's chief of staff dur
ing two campaigns. In speaking of
Jackson. he said, he had been fore
stalled by others, who had written OF
the great general. lie himself had
written an octave volume on the lite
of this genius of the civil war. The
graceful and elegant pen of the wife
Of Gen. Jackson, whose home was
only 20 miles distant, had portrayed
the interior of his character. llav-
ing in mind the amaranthine garland
with which her love had crowned the
great warriors memory, the speakc,
remarked that he himself felt like the
wise man of old who said. "Wha
can do, who comcth after the Queen!
lie would only narrate, he said,
train of unconnectcd incidents por
traying Jackson, the man. Iii
audience would excuse the 81" il
his discourse, which he might not b
able entirely to eliminate, but h
:; asked them to bear in mind that h
y only used it as the sworn witnes
: whose earnest attempt was to spea
,the truth, the whole truth and moth
ne ng but the truth.
~ A PRESBYTERIAN PARSON FOR CHE
OF STAFF.
-. The rcturer said that March, 1856,
al found hm at his homo sick of I'll
~ camp frcr, contracted while perform
- ing the duties of chaplain in the Coz
federay. TO his utter surprise, he
minister of the Gospel, entirely i
1 nora,t of military affairs-reccived
Il very brief letter from Gen. Jackso