Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee hunched over the microphone. He pointed dramatically to the flag behind the Speaker's chair. Soberly, forcefully, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky bit out each word...
Johnston seemed relieved of bedevilment when 1) Confederate batteries unexpectedly stopped Union forces moving up the James, 2) "Stonewall" Jackson whipped the Unionists in the Shenandoah. Late in May, in a countryside boggy from deluge, Johnston's great moment came: he attacked at Seven Pines. In reporting this totally erratic action, Dowlas Freeman reproduces the strain of a day from which one Confederate general retired physically paralyzed, not from fear but from sheer confusion. Johnston's plan as ususal was good; his orders were, as usual, not clear or explicit enough. McClellan had been beaten, but Johnston...
...Crazy Deacon was the only one of Lee's generals who had shown brilliance and had won a decisive engagement. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, 38, a mediocre instructor at Virginia Military Institute, a devout Presbyterian deacon, had been wounded in the hand at Manassas and had fought for the rest of the day with one arm upraised to stop the bleeding. Some of his men thought he was invoking the blessing of heaven. When another officer rode up to say, "General, they are beating us back," Jackson replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet...
Freeman's narrative of Jackson's first Valley Campaign is perhaps the best thing in Lee's Lieutenants. Among his fresh details is the fact that Jackson dug out an expert cartographer and had him make good maps of the whole Blue Ridge region. He also drew up tables that would show him at a glance the distance between any two points in his territory. Other officers, unaware of Deacon Jackson's attentive preparations, sometimes agreed with Cavalryman "Dick" Ewell that he was crazy...
...Jackson's gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...