Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-09-06
THE BOOMING CANNON
RECiTALS OF CAMP AND BAT
TILE INCIDENTS.
Survivors of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents of Marches, Camp Life, Forag-

General Thomas Jonathan Jackson
(StonewalD died May 10. 1863, of inju-
ries received at Charlottesville the
night of May >. The Southern people
have always insisted that the fatal
shots were from the muskets of Jack
sons own men, delivered. of course.
under misrepresentation. says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. They dis
like to admit that Federal bullets
could kill the hero whom they almost
worShiped. His loss was mourned in
the army and throughout the South.
and his people profess To believe that
his death was the beginningeof the end
of the Confederacy and that had he
lived their cause might have triumphed
History will doubtless take differ
ent view of the matter. 1t was quite
evident that Jackson had had his day
Ii was not in the nature of things that
he could have continued those exploits
which have made him famous. 1t
would be Il very grave Indictment of
the generals opposed To him TO assume
that he could have kept OH surprising
their camps by sudden strokes.
The greatest of all blows delivered
by Jackson was at Charlottesville, and
ii is to be doubted whether there was
another general in the army of the Po-
tomac besides Hooker who would have
given Stonewall his opportunity at that
time. Jackson's thesis. often expressed.
was "Mystify the enemy" but the com
moneSt soldier in the Federal army in
Virginia had come to understand Jack
sons movements 1t was a frequent
saying in the camps when encouraging
news was disseminated from army
headquarters about the military situa-
| ton: Now look out for Stoncwall Jack
son on our flank" Everybody under
stood that Jackson had to be reckoned
with, and ii could have been only n
question Of time when he would have
been reckoned with.
For another thing Jackson's methods
could only succeed in the absence of Il
strong cavalry force opposed to him.
Such a force he had never encountered,
! but the day of his good luck in that re-
| Spect had passed when he was killed
| Hooker in his blindness had sent the
new and splendid cavalry corps of the
army of the Potomac on wild raid
around the rear of Lee. Nothing was
| gained by ii, but the army lost the
| strong mounted vanguards that should
| have preceded it on its own fianking
movements around the rear of Lees
strong position on the Rappahannock
Had that cavalry corps been in its
| place masking Hooker's march and
| guarding it's flank, Stonewall's scheme
! Of mystifying would have failed. His
| march would have been detected, as,
| in fact, ii was detected, but force
fand to give Hooker warning so as to en-.
4 able him to prepare for any onslaught
/ III the very next campaign. that al
| Gettysburg it fell to Jeh Stuart's cav
airy To try to repeat the Stonewall tao
! ties and fall upon the flank and rear
of Meade's army on Cemetery Ridge.
Had he carried out his plans ana or
ders. Gettysburg would have a differ
ent history But Pleasanton's cavalry
corps was on hand. and when Stuart
struck his blow il fcll upon the strong
steel of Custer, Gregg and Mcintosh.
1t WAS always SO after that in the army
of the Potomac. and whenever the
TANKS We're endangered 10y Jackson
like movements ii was when the caNal-
ry was absent on other duty, and then
the infantry was alert.
Then. another thing. Jacksou's field
had been changed. L0ngstrcet says that
the newspapers made Jackson'S reputa.
ton by exploiting his conquests over
the petty little armies in the Shcnan-
doah He never met his peers in that
region. Naturally his people demanded
that so formidable marshal should be
attached 10 Lees main army but he
made 10 brilliant success as fighter
alongside of Longstroct AND \. i. Hill
and r. H. Anderson. His great march
from the Shenandoah to Richmond 10
help raise the siege was a great feat,
hui its success was due 10 the mys.
terry of the movement, 10 the faulty
of the Fedora! generals set 10 watch
him and the fact dat tie army of the
Potomac bcsieginG Richmond had no
cavalry to speak Of. barely enough for
outpost duty. The natural place for Il
cavalry corps. bad there been one con
nectcd with the army Of the Potomac,
would have bcVI 10 the northeast of