The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-17
ST0NEWALL JACKSON
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH
OF THE GREAT SOLDIER.
Had He Lived the South Would Have
Won in the War Thinks a North
ern Preacher.

Forty-eight years ago May 10
1853, the telegraph wires were bear
ing in all directions the omnious
message, "stonewall Jackson Is
dead On that day the great battle
winner died of wounds received
eight before in the midst of his
crowning victory at Charlottesville.
In speaking of the said event the
Rev. T. B. Gregory in the New York
American says:
That May day was, in the strictest
sense of the word, day of fate. 1t
settled things. 1t was day teem-
ing with destiny. One of the dead
generals old ehaplains is said to
have exclaimed, in the course of a
sermon delivered soon after the war,
when it pleased God to. decree that
the cause of the Confederacy should
lose, He called unto Himself His
servant, Stonewall Jackson, in order
that His will might be carried out
There are many people North
and South who believe that it was
that 10th of May, 1863, that settled
the issue of the great conflict be-
tween the States. Gen. Lee repeat
edly declared that had Jackson lived
and been with him at Gettysburg be
would have won that battle, and
many of the survivors Of that battle
Of the Union side are Of Lees opin-
ion.
In war, as the great Napoleon de-
clared, men are nothing; the man
is everything What Napoleon
meant was this; that when it comes
to winning battles the important
thing is not the number Of the rank
and file, but the military genius Of
the men who commands the rank
and file. Over and over again, from
Alexander and Caesar down to Marl
borough and Won Moltke, has this
truth been proven-that it is the
man and not the men who win bat
ties and decide campaigns.
While Jackson lived the NORTH
made no appreciable headway, not
withstanding it's superior number:
in the field. When Jackson fell al
Charlottesville gold was at its high
| est premium; Europe was almost or
the point of recognizing the Confed
eracy; the war spirit north of the
Potomac was rapidly growing cold
and the South. full of the gaudluH
Hcertamines, felt sure Of winning 1t:
fight.
Jackson fell in the Virginia vii
derness, shot through mistake by HI:
own men, fingered on for eight days
and died, and all was changed. The
Confederacy never struck twelve
again. There were no more Chan
cellorsville, no more first and. sec
ond Bull Runs, no more Cedar Noun
tains and Fredericksburg. Lee''
right arm was gone. The supreme
genius who had stood by him to ex
ecute his orders with the speed o
the lightning, was no more; and his
tory, traced out in the shape OF
diagram, shows that from the day o
Jackson's death the line represent
ing the Confederacy began to dip to
ward the nadir.
A remarkable man was StoneWal
Jackson fanatic and the coolies
of reasoners: stern and yet per
feet gentleman; remorseless in bat
tie as a juggernaut, yet brimfui o
tenderness and love; one day an oo
scure professor in zone horse
Virginia institute, the next immorta
as Caesar, as Napoleon, to be know
forever as one of the supreme mil
itary geniuses Of the world.
It is true that North and Soutl
are to-day both happy in the FAC
that they are together again IN tn
old Union, and it is more than PROB
able that their happiness is all owln
to the fact that on May 10. 1858
God "called unto Himself His ser
want, Stonewall Jackson.