The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-20
rrelv denends anal he sent hls order

largely depends that he sent his order
directly to Jackson, instead of sending
1t, as common courtesy and all military
usage required, through Jackson's COM
mander. General Johnston. This was
something worse than an affront. 1t
was an interference OF Ignorance with
the activities of Knowledge which might
easily have defeated operations of the
utmost Importance"
On page ass of Volume I. Mr.. Eggle-
ston, in his recount OF Jacksons VAL
ley campaign, mentions that at the
battle of Winchester General Jackson
captured all the Federal surgeons in
charge of field hospitals there. but re-
leased them on the ground that sur
geons do not make war and are not
therefore subject to its pains and PEN
alties. and he also states that 1t was
DIR Hunter Holmes MCGUIRE who first
offered this suggestion In behalf of hui
manity. and 1t was Stonewall Jackson
who first took the responsibility of act
ing upon H. To their memory history
should accord honor for IT.
In describing the great unnecessary
loss of life in the seven days battles
around Richmond. the author makes
this assertion: THE people of the
United States to-day are paying prince
ly sums as pensions to the families OF
those who died under Confederate sur
Seons' hands. simply because the laws
| and usages OF war forbade to those
| surgeons the medicines necessary to
| their iite-saving work and treated such
as gunpowder and arms-contraband OF
war." Another very strong statement
| in regard to the campaign is In these
words: 1t seems to be certain that II
| Huger and Magruder had done what
| Lee ordered them to do, and what they
might easily have done. McClellans
army must have been destroyed or cap
tured on June 80. 1852"
| General Lees first crossing the Po-
tomac is characterized by Mr. Eggleston
as "a desperate hazard, conspicuously
Eapoleonic in it's daring" And as to
| the results of the battle of Antietam,
he considers that sit made a final end
of the Confederate generals scheme OF
invasion. 1t baffted all of his cherished
purposes and blasted his hope of win
4 ming the war by the conquest OF Wash
/ ington or Baltimore or BOTH"
\ OF President Lincoln's proclamation
\ of emancipation TO the slaves within
the Southern States. in September OF
1852, Mr.. Egglcston believes: ITS in
/ huence was far less marked in the
/ United States than 1t would have been
had Mr.. Lincoln issued IL earlier in
the war when he was first urged to 90
so. In Europe. and particularly in
England. the emancipation proclama
ton went far to change a former
friendship for the Confederacy, which
at times had threatened danger, into
a strong moral support for the Fedora!
cause"
The author declares regarding Burn
\ sides Fredericksburg campaign that:
! Military critics have wonders much
that Lee, whose loss in the battle had
been only $500 men, and whose troops
We're almost wild with the enthusiasm
OF victory. permitted his badly beaten
adversary to remain unmolested on the
southern bank of the Rappahannock for
twenty-four hours and then quietly tc
retire. Burnside's position and the con.
dition of his army strongly invited at
Z tack He had a wide and deep river
I behind him, with only a frail pontool
( bridge spanning it. Had he been defeat.
/ ed there by assault on the part Of the
|vic;ors, there would have been no way
of escape open to him., Destruction u,
\ surrender must have followed"
Mr.. Eggleston is frankly outspoker
{ in regard to Halleck's treatment OF
Grant, and characteri2es Halleck's ap.
pointment to succeed Mcclellan a.
COMMUNICATIVE of the Union force.
In 1862 as .the most unwise appoint
, ment made on either side during the
} entire course of the war, unless we eX,
cept MI. Jefferson pavs's appointment
y of Pemberton. after he had lost Vicks
burg, to the position of military ad
wiser OF himself, with apparent author
y ity to control and command event Ro
bert +. Lee He says again on pages
/ rs and 70 of Volume II, that "Pember
ton was a Pennsylvania who hat
married at the South, and was spe
cial, personal ,favorite of Presiden
| Davis. After extraordinary demon
| stra ton of unfitness and incapacit,
at Vicksburg, and at time whel
many at the South--though unjustly--
suspected him Of having deliberatel.
betrayed their cause, Mr.. Davis ap
: pointed this man to a post, an appoint
! ment so holly resented by Lees arm,
that Mr.. Davis wisely modified 1t be
fore protest savoring of mutiny wa
!. provoked,"
This verdict is passed upon the grea
war game played between Hooker ant
Lee In the Charlottesville campaign
"Hooker had lost. by his own tncapac
, ity. decisive opportunity to end TIL
war with Federal success, and Lee
because Of a lack of ammunition, ha,
lost a still more obvious oppor
tuntty to end IT by decisive triumph
y of the Confaderates arms When MI
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