The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-28

render his country. Hence his mind
Has SO wholly occupied with his ar
uucus duties tina he found no time
70 array himself in fine clothes
even forgetting that he was King
niiseI conspicuous in paying SO lit
,ie to his dress. This alb
soTptlon in patriotic duty explains
me old dust colored clothes which
me Long ROLF revels in comment
ms upon In times Of peace and
"hen at nome no man could have
peer more particular and immacu-
iate IN his dress than General Jack
SoE.
General Jackson was no lover Of
war, declaring emphatically how he
deprecated it, and only the sternes.
sehse Of duty drove him into it: but
having been educated as a soldier.
lie lett 1mpelled to discharge every
RUE according to military regulations
ano nence he was eften misjudged az
haTsh and unjust by those who had
less knowledge Of military law.
though his hear was really as ten
der as that Of a m I remem-
Der in one Of my visits to Lexington.
va, General Lee said to me so sad
~. All! Mrs. Jackson, if all of our
officers and men had done their duty
as your husband did, the result Of
the war would have been very diff
ferenti"
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Allan, who
knew General Jackson intimately
from earliest childhood, and whose
father and husband were members
OF his staff, and Who herself is a
Of rare culture and an author
Of note, says of THE Long ROLF:
Mrs. Allan's Statement.
Miss Johnston's claim that she is
presenting Jackson from the soldiers
point of view is an adroit defense of
her caricature of the great soldier.
But h does nothing to. substantiate
he claim. And in view of the We
hement protests now being raised
by the DC soldiers throughout the
South against Miss Johnston's mis-
representations Of Jackson's lineage,
manners. dress, habits II speech, it
is incumbent apo her to give her
authority for such damaging state
mentS.
Those Of us who were in touch
with his soldiers during those two
years Of Jackscn's brilliant career,
no such impression from them.
We certainly got no such impression
from The intimacies Of daily inter-
course. Major Jackson, as he lived
among us in Lexington, was a man
in dress and appearance as are all
West Pointers, Of great refinement
of thought and speech, Of nusua
g~entlenesS or manner, and a lover of
children. My little brother and 1
counted him boon companion, n
claimed his attention as oon as he
crossed the threshold. Could a man
known and loved Or with such char
acteristics Is these be suddenly
metamorphosed by the accident OF
war into the harsh, ~disagreeable and
absurd figure that Miss Johnston
paints?
Eccentric is a word which may
unfairly be applied to General Jack
son., mainly because he was that rare
thing, an absolutely consistent Chris
tan. His Master bore that same re-
proach. But he was never known to
thrust his peculiar views on any
one, was w known to speak
to be more righteous than others;
and therefore gave no offense. And
though his friends and neighbors jest
ed about his strict views OF Sabbath
keeping. and his rigid adherence to
those duties which most OF us treat
SO lightly, he was loved and honored
by high and low in the community.
We may be forgiven if we consider
it somewhat presumptuous In a
young woman born after the war, TO
insist hat she knows the character
isties Of this great man better than
those who had the privilege or MS
cornpanionship! But literary success
is a heavy wine, and Miss Johnston
has allowed her sense OF the dra-
matte to beguile her into doing a
grave wrong to the truth Of history
when she represents General Jackson
as rough. uncouth. boorish. siovenlv
and unbalanced. 1.-The Long Roll" Is
disa etrously ~outdrawing in this re-
spect."
It takes such a man as Lieut-Co!.
G.. F. r. Henderson, Of the British
army, to grasp the true spirit and
character of the young man who in-
spfred him to write his mastery his
tory of "Stonewall Jackson n the
American Civil War"-a work which
will live as long as the English Ian
gxage Is spoken-even as a classic.
Colonel Henderson visited all the bat
tlefields Of Virginia and made an ex-
haustive study OF h war and its
leaders. His splendid book has on1v
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