Year: 1863

[FrOm the London Times, May 2e.]


The Confederate laurels won on the
field Of Charlottesville must be twined
with the cypress, Probably no disaster
of the war will have. carried such grief
to Southern hearts a., the death of Gen.
jackson, who has succumbed to the
wounds received in the great battle of
the Sd of May. Even on this side Of
the ocean the gallant soldiers fate will
everywhere be heard of with pity and
sympathy. Not only as a brave man
lighting for his country's bat as one of
the most consummate Generals that this
century has produced. Stonewall" T"
jackson will carry with him to his early
grave the regrets of oil who can admire
greatness and genins. From the .earli-
est days of the war he has been conspic.
us-for the most remarkahls military
qualities. Thot mixture OF daring and
judgment which is the mark of "heaVen-
born" generals, distinguished him beyond
any man of his time. Although the
young Confederacy has been illustrated
by number of eminent soldiers, yet the
applause and devotion of his country.
men, confirmed by the judgment of Eu-
ropean nations, have given the first place
to Gen jackson. The military feats he
accomplished moved the minds Of the
people with an astonishment which it is
only given to the highest genius to pro.
duce. The blows he struck at the ene-
my were as terrible and decisive as those
of Bonaparte himself. The march by
which he surprised the army of Pope
last year would be enough in itself to
give him a prominent place in military
history.


But perhaps the crowning glory Of
his life was the great battle in which he
fell. When the Federal commander, by
crossing the river twelve miles above bis
camp, and pressing on, as he thought


to the rear of the Confederates, had
placed them between two bodies of his
army, he was so confident of success as
to boast that the enemy was the proper


ty of the Army of the Potomac. II


was reserved to jackson by swift and
secret march to fall upon his right wing
crush it, and, by an act unsurpassed ir


fierceness and pertinacity, to drive biz


superior forces back into position from


which he could not extricate himself ex


cept by fight across the river. In thu


battle of Sunday, Jackson received two


wounds, one in the left arm, the other il


the right hand. Amputation Of tn,


arm was necessary, and the Southern


hero sank under the effects of it, sup


ported to the last by his simple and no


BILE character and strong religious faith.
From the London Telegraph, May27.]
Add to the splendid valor of Mura
the fervid faith of a Cromwell, and tn
F, unbroken success of q Havelock, AM
we have the captain whose waving swor,
and fearless voice the Southern white
t would have followed "to the pit" Tha
7 he never lived to exchange division 70
the massed columns of the field of battle
: may perhaps have been good for hi
fame; but the leader who could find th
, weak place in Hooker's line at Ohancel
lorsville, and hurl his twenty-five thou
s sand troops upon it so soon as found, q


jackson did, would surely have ripene
d into a renowned general Assured
d the most fatal shot of the war to tn
d Confederates, whether fred by friend c
e foe, was that which struck down the lii
: of Stonewall Jachson-a soldier ever
b inch of him, for whatever cause he col
d tended.