The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-05-16
ST0NEWALl JACKSON
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH
OF THE GREAT SOLDIER.
Had He Lived the South Would Have
Won in the War Thinks North.
ern Preacher.
ern Preacher,

Forty-eight years ago May 10,
1853, the telegraph wires were bear
ing in al, directions the omnious
message, "Stonewait Jackson is
dead" On that day the great battle
winner died of wounds received
eight before in the midst of his
browning victory at Charlottesville.
In speaking of the So. event the
Rev. r. B. Gregory in the New York
American says:
That May day was, in the strictest
sense Of the word, a. day Of fate. 1t
settled things. 1t was day teem-
ing with destiny. One Of the dead
generals old chap:ains is said to
have exclaimed, in the course o. 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 1t was
that 10th of May, 1868, 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 he
would have won that battle, and
many of the survivors of that battle
of 1.-THE Union side are OF Lees opin-
ion. -.a
In war, as the great Napoleon de-
clared, "men are aothing; 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 ar over again, from
Alexander and Caesar down to Marl-
borough and Won Moltke, has this
truth been proyen-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 its superior numbers
in the field. When Jackson fell at
Charlottesville gold was at its high
est premium; Europe was almost on
the point of recognizing the Confed-
eracy; the war spirit north of the
Potomac was rapidly growing cold'
and the Sou,h, full cs the gaudinm
certamines, felt sure of winning; its
fight.
Jackson fell in the Virginia will
derness, shot through mistake by his
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. Lees
right arm was gone. The supreme
genius who had stood by him to eX-
ecute his orders with the speed OF
the -llSuIuluSy WOO nv hiNAS' ~
tory, traced out in the shape or a
diagram, shows that from the day OF
Jackson's death the line represent
ing the Confederacy began to dip to-
ward the nadir.
A remarkable man was Stonewall
Jackson-a fanatic and the coolest
of reasoners; Stern and yet a per-
feet gentleman; remorseless in bat
tie as juggernaut, yet brimful OF
tenderness and love; one day an OBJ
scure professor in zone horse
Virginia institute, the next immortal
as Caesar, as Napoleon, to be known
forever as one Of the supreme mil
itary geniuses OF the world.
1t is true that North and South
are to-day both happy in the facs
that they are together again in the
old Union, and it Is more than prob
able that their happiness is all owing
to the fact that on May 10, 1868,
God 'tcalled unto Himself His SER
want. Stonewall Jackson"