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Show Stonewall Jackson's Death. Historians alwayn stop to describe the flying of Wolfo and Montcalm, the twe opposing commanders in tho battle of (Quebec. But their deuthH wore simply heroin eonipnrod with tho Christian death of KtoncwnH .Tarkson. About 1 :"0 on tho d.vy of his denth hf w was told that ho hud about two hours to" live, and ho an.iwoved foebly but firmly, "Very good; it is all right." ':..' A few Moments tiefora he died hf cried ont in his delirium: ''Order A. P. T I ill to prepare for notion. Pass trm infantry in-fantry to the front rapidly. Tell MaJ. Huwhs" then stopped, leaving the sentence sen-tence unfinished. Presently a fituilo of ineffable sweet-1 ness, Mpyend itself oyer bis pale face uud then lie taid quietly and with an ci-prtfsiou ci-prtfsiou of relief: "Let w cross over itlip river and rest ntider tbe. shade of .the tre?.'' And then,' without pain or the lea. t struggle, his (spirit pnfcsed. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press. |