The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-04

/ James Aston Cabell deputy grand
master; Henry X. Field grand senior
warden: Ernest l.. Cunningham. grand
junior warden; Fred Peasants. grand
treasurer; Joseph V. Bidgood. deputy
grand treasurer; Charles A. Nesbitt,
grand secretary: John F. Mayer, dep
uty grand secretary; Sol Cutchins,
grand senior deacon; William w.
Gait. grand Junior deacon; Harry B.
Lee. grand chaplain: James II. Price,
/ grand marshal; James A. Pamplin.
| grand pursuivant: Oscar j. Adams
/ steward.
Judge George l.. Christian in a
few words introduced Major Ander-
son. the orator of the occasion, who
| in simple language spoke of the great
J and good man to whom the monu-
ment Is to be erected. Simplicity
! OF speech becomes any remarks about
| one whose simplicity of character was
so marked a feature of his greatness"
| he said.
The address was a dellneation of the
| characted of Stonewali Jackson and
/ tribute to 1t by one who knew init
mately the personality. truthfulness, I'M
! faltering faith indomitable strength of
will and high sense of honor of the
man,
Sense of Duty Dominates.
! From his very hoyhood." said Major
I Anderson, his life was dominated by
a sense of duty TO others, and duty to
himself From these early years he
was animated by the supreme purpose
/ to make himself the very greatest of
which he was capable, and ne placed
no very crcumscribed limits upon these
capabilities"
How well Jackson succeeded HIS
tory knows. yet Major Anderson
sketched briefly and prehensively
the earlier struggle Jackson made for
education and training, his career at
West Point and in the army service of
the United States. through Scott's Mext-
can campaign In which he arose from
the rank of second lieutenant to major
by brevet. The speaker quoted from
the record: NO other officer in the
whole army in Mexico was promoted so
often for meritorious conduct, or made
so great stride in rank. Continu-
| ing. Major Anderson said:
His courage, capacity and Bile
and efficient services in that war were
repeatedly and conspicuously com
mended in the reports of his superior
| officers. as. for instance. by Captain
! latter wards Major GeneraU J. b. Ma
/ ~
/ OF Chapultepec, In which he refers to
young jackson in the following terms:
! If devotion, industry. talent and gal
| lantry are the highest qualities of a
soldier, then he Is entitled to the dis
! tinction which their possession con-
fers"
"A Heaven-Born SOLDIER
Mr.. Anderson then turned to the
period during which Jackson served
In, hz N1r0 infu arxy
Institute:
He was, In those piping times of
peace, recognized at Lexington. as.
and was sometimes characterized as
being, "A born soldier. The time came
in few years when he was considered
by his old friends and neighbors In
that community. as he was after
wards aptlN designated by his Scotch
admirers across the sea "a Heaven born
soldier"
The selection In 1861, by Governor
Letcher OF jackson as officer to com
mand the important post of Harper's
Ferry was recalled as a mark OF reeog-
milton of the great value of jackson.
and, xaid the, speaker:
And now the civilized world knows
what manner OF, man Major Jackson
was, for within two years he wrote
his name across the heavens.
Major Anderson quoted Colonel Hen
derson. accomplished English soldier,
author OF a Life of Jackson used
as textbook In foremost military
schools OF the world showing jack
sons place in history:
Stands Among Greatest
$50 far as his opportunities had per-
mitted. het had shown himself in no
way inferior 10 the greatest generals
ri the cent ury;-- " Alllrsgt on. aNapaiaea
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