Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-23
STONEWALL JACKSON
Eloquent Tribute tothe South
ern Military Genius.
GOOD, GENTLE AND BRAVE
H5r. Ganser McGu;re, OF Richmond, EuIo-
gises Lees Greatest lieutenant In an
Address to the Confederate Vet
Grams of New York City.
(Rv TsIerranhrl


NEW YORK, Jan. 22-T>wo hundr d
White haired soldiers who fought tor
The Confederate cause under L.e and
jackson met tonight for the eighth time
10 toast tn meanoty of their dead COM
rades and renew asso, iations. Their
banquet Was held at the ST. Denis Hotel.
Colonel c. Ne. Thornhurn. commander
of the Confederate Veterans Camp. the
Official tftle of the gathering, presiGed.
GrSnpet around him at the centre table
We're Colonel A. r. Chisholm, Major S.
Ellis Briggs, former Governor Hugh s.
thompson, Augustus W. Peters, DR..
Hunter Mcclure, of Stonewall Jackson's
staff: Major Jed Hotchkiss. ami Rev. ].
Z. Smith, both OF whom served with
Jackson through the war: Rev. G. S.
Baker and Rev. w. F. Jenkin
Ihe S1'nnsr was given in memory of
otonewall Jackson and the portrait OF
the famous Confederate leader looked
down upon the gate ring. Above this
was a portrait of Central Lee, both
framed in the flags of the Union and. the
Confederate camp.
The toast of the night was that which
CARR General Jackson's name, and TO
this DR.. Mcclure, who extracted? the
bullet from the Confe!e rate leader as ne
lay dying, replied:
DE. Mcclure said in part:
General Jackson's history is Sro,1r
history and a share of mis- glory be-
y
ny the existence of this urga MIA ton:
by the unSwel'ving devotion with which.
" SPITE advans ing years and adverse sur
rcundingS, You have adhered to the
principles that -nnoblesi your young
manhood: by the rxd!t-,i ami srlc-eAa t
ing reverence that you pay to your glo-
r.ous dead.
I am to speak Of Stonewall Jackson,
not in the formative years of his life.
Nor I'm the quiet of peaceful. avoca lions.
but as men knw him when The fire
from heaven fell upon him in the bat
tiefle!d. ns 1t did upon Arthur-the fire
by which Sir 1-auncelot knew him for
his king.-the fire that like the live coal
nlom Off the altar touch y the lips OF
jackson and brought from that kindly
voice which the eagle of victory knew
and obeyed. FNor a king was Stonnwall
Jackson. if ever, royalty annointed as by
fire. arpeaird among men.
In Sc king to define Jackson's place
in history accept Lord Wolse.~y's Ge-.
Alnition OF great commander. Ile de-
cares, in effect. that the marks OF this
rare character are: First of al. tbs.
pow7r. the instinct, the inspiration t.
Site1lns4a t'he condition and The purpose of
your enemy. Secondly, the genius th,,f
IN strategy instantly deylses the com
hinations most likely to defeat those
PURPOSES putt Thirdly, the physical and
me skill that promptly and properly de-
llNsis the blow that skaters the hostile
plans, SO managing ones own forces
teven when smalD as to have the grea ter
number at the point of attack Fourth
~. the cool Judgment that is mistaken
'ny the clash and clanlor of emery nciy 5
And last. but not beast. the preyis-
ron, the caution that cares fos the lives
and well-being OF the private soldiers
and the personal magnetism that rouses
the enthusiasm and affection that make
the commanders presence on the BAT
ele!hL the incentive to all tina, human
beings can dare and the nnquestionea
nope and sure promise of victory
MANY Incidents OF ia, ksun's career
prove that he possessed the instructive.
power to know the plight and to fore
tell the purpose of the FedenaI army
and its comma EHe.S."
DIR. Mcclure then want on TO ten
many incidents of General Jackson
on the battlefield, the most Interesting
and dramatic OF which We're the follow
ing:
AT Malvern Hill. when "a portion of
OUR army was beaten and TO some eX-
tent denloralized. HiE and EweL ana
early came to tell him that they could
make NO resistance If Mcclellan attack
ed them in the morning. 1t was diff
cult to wake General Jackson, as he was
exhausted and very sound asleep l
partly succst ded. When be was made
TO understand what was wanted he
said. Mcclellan and his army will be
gone by daylight ana, went to sleep
again The general thought him mad,
but the prediction was true
& at Fred ri cksburg, after Burnside's
repulSe, he asked me how many band
ages 1 had. told him and asked why
he wanted to know. He saii that he
wanted to have a piece of white cloth
to tbs ON each mans arm so that his
soldiers might recognize each other i'm
night attack. and; he asked to he al
LGWeu to make such an attack and drive
HRS foe into the swoolen river or capture
htm. Subsequent events Gemonstra ted
that he knew the state OF things with
the hostile lines, and would have accom-
p1shed his purpose. General Lee with
he'd his consent for the reason that so
often restrained him in like cases--he
coupj not put at SO great risk an army
which the South could not replace.
That Jackson replaced the second
and third requirements the genius to de-
wise and the skill and courage to deliver
the blow needed to- defeat his FOES, is it
not amply proved 10y the general fact
that his own Eorce in the valley cam
paign was never over 1900, and gen
orally less, and that for time he was
keeping at bay $1,000 Federal soldiers
In OF near the great valley, and 10000 at
t9tt ericksburg-soundly ta,rashing d
the field from time TO time large por-
tons OF this great army?
Or, taking "a widsr view, Jackson and
his small force SO influenced the whole
campaign as to keep 100000 Federal
troops away from Richmond and csrn-
pti the Federal government to employ
a larger force than the entire Confeder-
ate army in Virginia, in order, as Lin
coin said. to protect the Federal Capt.
tot White another superior force ops
ratei against Lee and Richmond
II cannot give you any instances OF
Illustrations of the mental action by
which ne reached his conclusions or de
vised the combinations which defeated
his enemy; for Jackson took no cc,lnsel
save with his familiar the Genius of
War and his God. He dhl' hold one, and
only on, couEcil of war. In March,
1862, at Winchester, ia kSen had in his
small :rmy less than 5000 men. GEN
,lal Banks, who was advancing upon
Winchester from Harper's FERRY and
Charlestown. hat 10000 soldiers. Gen.
Jackson repeatedly offered Cen Banks
bate. but the lattsr declined, and on
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