Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-04
MAJOR ANDERSON SPEAKS
ON CAREER OF JACKSON
delivers Address at Laying of the
Cornerstone for Equestrian
Monument.
awAs IN sToNEwALL BRIGADE
Former Acknowledgement Of Virginia
Proves Without Foundation the
Distorted CariCatureS of jackson In
Certain Recent Works of Fiction.

{. lnEton, formerly Acknowledgement of
! Virginia, and a wartime member Of
, the Stonewall brigade, was the orator
y al the laying of the cornerstone of the
= Stonewall jackson Monument yester
day afternoon. Major Anderson's ad-
dress, which was regarded as one of
unusual force and eloqucnce follows
in full:
desire. in simple language to speak
, briefly of the great and god man whom
. the statue 10 he erected here is to COM
memoratc.
simplicity OF speech becomes any re-
marks about one whose simplicity of
character was so marked a feature of
his greatness.
MOI will! nor need the truth be coll
oreh in his culoEy
ENtrava cance of statement would
rather detract from than add TO his
moral and intellectual stature
There have been many delineations Of
the character of Stonewall Jackson
some true to nature and to the facts.
some so exaggerated in one direction
as TO be fanciful. and some so distorted
In another direction as to make him APP
= pear grotesQue.
To those who knew him best in peace
to his family, his pastor. his servants.
MS friends, and the poor: to those who
knew him hest III war. the members of
his staff, the officers who served under
or with him, and were thrown inti-
mately with him. In camp. on the
march and upon the field of battle: to
the soldiers of his brigade. division and
;rny. who through two wears of ire
E'endouS effort and glorious achieve
rient, bivouaced marched and fought
, tnder his command: to the faultlcss
Chieftain to whose exalted characters
transcendant abilities. and we'll nigh
unerrine Judgment he Welded the ut
most devotion of his great soul-Robert
r. Lee-who returned that affection
and confidence in unstinted measure:
to none of these WAS Stonewall Jack
son ever grotesque.
SOTIIING TO IMPAIR DIGNITY
- OF TRUE, GREATNESS
Whatever his pcculiarities. and he
had some which were marked. they
were more than tho idiosyncracies
which arc sometimes the companions OF
genius and Of great natures. and no
more impaired the dignity and true
greatness Of the man than does the
foam upon the limpid waters of tho
rapidly moving river lessen its useful
ness or its lovclincss as it flows in
matchless beauty 10 the sea.
We learn from his biographies that.
from his childhood. and on through his
hoyhood and youth. I've exhibited those
qualities Of courage. indomitable
strength of will. sclf-respectinc de-
Z. 1ision Of character. ;ruthfulness, frank
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"f action which his genus has made
Immortal
l-ro,n his vcr, HAYWOOD his life w,s
dominated by sense OF duty 10 othnrs
and duty 10 himself. From those early
years he was animated by "A supreme
. purpose. ito make himself the very
greatest Of which he was capable: and
F. he placed no very circumscribcd limits
upon those capabilities
At"rI tTt,D by TRtORnINARY
IDEALS AND RULES or CONDUCT
san. ro,ior of his extraordinary
seIf-discinlin. and Of the ideals which
then actuatcd him. is afforded by the
admirah bic code OF maNims and rules or
=. conduct when wh'Ic Sh"t' az We