The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-07-09

Point training. with Joheph E. John
son, soldier of high renown in both
armies, in full command; and with
Pierre Beauregard, sometimes called
the Beau Sabreur of the Confed-
eracy," in active charge of the battle
line, il remained for a hitherto rather
obscure brigade commander, a profess
sor of artillery tactics and natural
philosophy, to perceive that the high
way to Washington, 10 the capture of
the Union capital, and possibly recog-
milton of the new Confederacy by anx-
iously waiting foreign powers and the
termination of the war by a single
stroke, was as wide open as if it had
been strewn with welcoming garlands
by McDoweIl's flying zouaves.
But Stonewau Jackson's need for
&c, 1000 fresh men-and there was ample
allowance among those still unengaged
found President Davis arranging con-
ferences in the rear of the scene of
triumph; Johnson satisfied with the al
ready gathered fruits of victory, and
Beauregard concerned with rumors of
advances on his rear.
These runors had phantom Union
armies coming from all directions, and
seemed TO cloud the fact that the flesh
and blood Union Army was fleeing dou-
ble-quick toward the Potomac, followed
no longer by even a squadron of caval-
~. There were questions of supplies
behind while -four was rotting in the
freight cars and a rich country lay
ahead. But the elements of victory
which fred Jackson's intuitive mind
with the zest for further action spoke
caution and satisfaction to his supe-
riors, and the precious, wasted hours
swept by.
And the Confederate army settled
down for nine months almost on the
spot, and the defenses of Washington
were strengthened and new Federal
army assembled. The eagle of victory
perched often thereafter on the ban
ners of the South, but the Northern vol
unteers who had raced from Bull Run
hardened into some of the stanchest
fighters the world has known. And the
attrition set in, and the war rolled on
toward Gettysburg and AppomattoX,
with never another rout for the North
so utter and complete. nor highway so
clear, nor the cause of the South so
near triumphant.
And jackson never had opportunity
to prove to history that, with 10000
fresh men on the night of July q, 1861,
he would be in Washington on the NOR
row.
This battle was noteworthy for
the number of officers in it who
were marked for later fame. By
one of those strange quirks Of fate,
the commanders of the opposing
aruies-Irvin Mcdowell of the
Union and Pierre Gustave Toutant
Beauregard-had been classmates
at West Point in 1888.
On the Confederate side there
was James E. Longstreet, Lees
war horse" to whose slowness is
often attributed the loss of the Bat
tie of Gettysburg, the South's last
chance to win the war. There were
also Joseph E. Johnston, Kirby
Smith, c. P. Eweu and Fitz-Hugh
Lee, and those dashing cavalry
leaders, "Jeb'' Stuart and Jubal
A. Early and Wade Hampton. And
last but not least was that queer
military genius whose inperisha-
bic nickname was fastened upon
him at Bull Run-that professor
of artillery tactics and natural
philosophy" Thomas J. Jackson.
That was the name with which
he went into the battle. But he
came out Of it "Stonewan" Jack
son, because at a critical moment
in the battle he deployed his bri-
gade upon a little ridge and there
awaited the onrush Of the Union
forces which almost had victory in
their grasp. Look, there is Jack
son standing like a stone WALL
Rally behind the Virginians!"
shouted another brigade comman-
der, Gen. Barnard E. Bee. The
Union tide of victory was stemmed
and ''StonewaI' jackson and his
''Stonewan Brigade" became an
American legend.
Everyone has heard of Stone
WALL Jackson, but how many know
anything about the man who gave
him that name. Perhaps if he had
been spared to share in the vic
tory, he might also have shared in
his fame. But Bee, while leading
a rally of the Confederates after
Jackson had taken his ''stone WALL
stand, fell MORALLY wounded. Thus
ended brilliant career which had
begun with the graduation of the
young South Carolinian from West
Point in 1845, followed by service
in the new state of Texas and in
the Mexican war where he was
severely wounded at Chapultepec
and was brevetted a captain for
gallantry at Cerro Gordo. After
service against the Indians in the
Northwest and with Albert Sidney
Johnston in the Mormon troubles
In Utah, he was promoted to cap