Show wi 1 r 1 i t 1 r l Hono rt s tit ri y 3 n. n I T Sr a rr f k y Y fili C it t kf e d w M MJ J s 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N DECEMBER DECE of last year the fol rol following lowing news story was sent out from Baltimore Md l F I Because use th they y were were his boyhood t heroes provision pro for the erection of ot ofa ota a monument to Robert E E. Lee and Thomas J. J Stonewall Jackson ConJ Confederate Con Con- J federate generals was made In the will of ot the late J. J Henry Ferguson president of ot the Colonial Trust c company y who died November 24 last The will specified that be used from frOla Mr Fergusons Ferguson's estate estat for the thc monument monument ant ami provided pro prod vided that It be erected with within n ten miles of the City ball In Baltimore and that it represent the parting of the two Confederate e leaders prior to the battle of Chancellorsville In his will Mr Ferguson explained the prevIsion provision provision pro pre vision for the erection of the monument by sayIng say say- saying Ing They were my boyish heroes and Judgment has only strengthened my ll admiration admiration for them They were great grent generals and Christian soldiers They waged war like e gentlemen and I Itee tee feel their example sh should be held up to the youth of Maryland and In most of the states which once were a part of ot the Confederacy and especially In Virginia January 10 19 and January 21 are dates of ot special significance because they are the anniversaries of the birthdays of Robert E. E Lee Iee and Stonewall Stonewall Stone wall J Jackson respectively And while other sections sections sec sec- of the country countr do not e these da days s 's as Is done in the South by the flying of both the Stars and Stripes and the Stars Stars' and Bars ars from public buildings each day from sunrise to sunset on January 19 13 to January 21 Inclusive all Americans can understand and applaud this latest latest project to honor the memory of ot two great reat generals generals gen gen- and Christian soldiers The careers of or Lee and Jackson up to the openIng openIng opening open- open Ing of the Civil lJ war var were as follows ws Robert E E. Lee was born at Stratford Westmoreland Westmore land county Virginia January 19 19 1807 the youngest youngest youngest young young- est son of Major General Henry Lee called Light horse Harry He entered West Nest Point In 1825 1125 was graduated four years later second ser nd in hi his bl- cla class s anc and given a commission In the U U. S. S Engineers corps In 1831 he married Mary Mary Custis who was the daughter of G. G W. W P. P Custis adopted son of Washington and the grandson of Mrs Washington By 1833 he had attained tho the rank of captain and took part In the Mexican war repeatedly winning distinction for conduct and bravery After the war engineering work engaged him until 1852 when he was appointed superintendent of West Point and during his three years there he accomplished many Important changes The career of Lee from the time of his appointment appoint ment to the post at West Point until April 1861 when Virginia seceded from the Union was closely Identified with the Federal army While personally opposed to the principle of secession Lee felt that his greatest duty was to Virginia He refused the command of the field army about to Invade the South becoming instead the highest ranking officer om In the army of the Confederacy Stonewall Jackson was born bornat at Clarksburg Va now West Vest Virginia January 21 1824 Beginning Beginning Beginning Be Be- ginning his military life Ute with a nomination to West Nest Point Thomas Jonathan Jackson on took part after being graduated d In the Mexican w war r as ee second second sec sec- ond and lieutenant in the First U. U S Artillery In 1851 he obtained an appointment as professor at the Virginia Military institute at Lexington where for tor ten years he taught natural science the theory of gunnery and battalion drill Though he was not a good teacher his Influence both on hip hb pupils and those few Intimate friends for whom he relaxed the gravity of his manner was vas profound A thorough appreciation of this quality of ot leadership lead gave Jackson tho the command of the corps o of V V. V M. M 1 I. I when Virginia seceded In 1861 By July of that year he had bad been promoted to the rank of general brigadier and had so well employed this short time for training his men that on the first field of Bull Run they won for themselves and their brigadier by their rigid steadiness at atthe atthe atthe the critical moment of ot the battle the historic name of Stonewall While those simple biographical details tell toll of what did It Is in uch records as two books which have ha appeared recently that the story of what kind of ot men they were will be found One of ot these Is An Camp Aide of Lee facing being the papers of ot Col Charles Marshall edited by MaJ Mai Gen Sir Frederick Maurice and published by Little Lit tie tle Brown Drown and company The other Is Stonewall Jackson the Good Soldier written by Allen n Tate and published by Minton Balch Dalch and company As Asal al camp aide e. e military secretary and assistant adjutant general on on n the staff of ot General Lee from rom 1862 to 1865 Colonel Marshall had an unusual opportunity for knowing Lee ns as few men had ever known him That the Union Onion of ot the North and South was made indissoluble at Appomattox as Colonel Marshall sa says s 's was shown hown in a dramatic dramatic dra matic fashion during the Spanish American war when a n son of ot Colonel Marshall performed for fora a son of Grant the same functions which from 1802 to tl 1805 1865 the father tather had performed for Lee Leel If the real Lee Is to be found within the pages of or Marshalls Marshall's book it Is not less true that the thele thereal le teal real l Jackson lackson Is to be found in the tile book written with r rare Ie biographical s sympathy by Allen Tate a southerner io A rending reading of these two books will convince one ono of the tine appropriateness of the proposed Maryland memorial to the two great generals for tor they were wert so BO closely associated In their brilliant military achievements and although so totally different In inI I temperament ao so much akin In Is tinny ways that PI PIk k K f I 3 y 14 liy fO r f P P r x xZ Z future n ages es will probably rob bl find It easier to think in terms of Lee and Jackson than In terms ms of Lee Lee and Jackson alone One reviewer of Tate Tate's s biography has hass commented upon this fact a as follows t v P The figure of Stonewall Jackson occupies a unique place In the history of ot the great struggle In point of romantic Interest he stands alone wrapped In the solitude of his own originality He was the South's greatest crusader crusader crusader-a a mystic a zealot a Christian soldier In whose character were Mended blended the fanaticism of a Peter the Hermit Hermit Her Her- mit the Earing and Inflexible purpose of a Cromwell Cromwell Cromwell Crom Crom- well and the subtlety of a Francis Marion Marlon For Forthe Forthe Forthe the soldiers of the Confederacy he became after the first Bull Run a center of Inspiration and a bulwark of confidence And there are historians who say say say- among them his his his' present biographer biographer- that it was not at Gettysburg that the backbone of the Confederacy was broken but at Chancellorsville Chancellors Chancellors- yule ville with the bullet that sped out of the darkness and put an untimely end to Stonewall Jackson's Jacksons Jacksons Jackson's Jack Jacl sons son's military career When that event occurred the theone theone theone one man who understood the heart and soul and genius of Jackson Robert E E. E Lee said I have lost my right arm Or There were few among his associates s In the war who did understand Stonewall Jackson Perhaps Lee was the only one Some regarded him as a dullard some as a fanatic some even as a mad mad- man He explained himself to no one and his plans only to Lee There was a strange understanding between these two men men men-an an Intuitive trust in eaCh earn other They were of ot a single mind Had the conduct conduct con con- duct of war the first two years b seen cn loft left to these two unhampered by the tho vacillations of Jefferson Davis and and nd Judah P P. P Benjamin and the intrigues intrigues' of ot the southern politicians a different story might have been written of the w war unless unless r-unless unless the great reat result was really written in the stirs stars t rs Jackson was wis the one man whose military Judgment judgment judgment Judg judg- ment and genius Lee implicitly trusted whose failures failures failures fail fail- ures even he be never questioned He sent pent Jacl Jackson son alone on the expeditions to his execution but he be remained with Longstreet Jacksons Jackson's pe peculiar peculiar pe- pe culiar genius for sudden secret and o attack Lee could always depend upon for a master masterstroke stroke Longstreet stout In battle was given to and dela delay He argued and delayed at Gettysburg and It was after that battle that Lee paid his greatest tribute to Stonewall Jackson If I 1 had had Jack Jackson on at Gettysburg he said I 1 should have won the tho battle and anda a complete victory there would have resulted in the establishment of southern Ind Independence But the G God d of or battles to whom Jackson prayed had decreed otherwise otherwise otherwise-Ills III leaden messenger at Chancellorsville sped In II a moment of victory took from Lees Lee's side the one man he be needed In a fateful h hour ur One of the most disputed points in Civil i war history has b been en whether or 01 not Lee or r Jacl Jackson son was faS responsible for tor the great flank flunk movement mo at al Chancellorsville flIe which sent Fighting Joe Ise Hookers Hooker's big army flying Dying out put o of the Wilderness before the much smaller force of ot Confederates s In regard to this General Maurice the editor of the Marshall papers rays cays This Is the question which It seems to me C Colonel lonel Marshall f settled conclusively He says sap not nol only that the plan was Lees Lee's but that Jackson nt ot first d demurred to It H as as being too hazardous However However How How- ever oh on on l learning that Lee had decided that a 8 frontal attack on Hookers Hooker's entrenchments In the Wilderness ss was out of the question and that a R away away way had been found round Hookers Hooker's flank Jackson at once accepted L Lees Lee's es e's plan and threw himself with lIh enthusiasm Into the task of carrying It through We We now b have ve Lees Gees statement to Mrs Jackson Jacklon that he ha had told her husband that he was opposed to a frontal attack and that the attack must be made by the Confederate left Talcott's statement that Jackson said to Leo Lee Show me what to do doand doand doand and I will try to do It Jacksons Jackson's statement Most men will think I J planned it all from the first but It was not so and finally Marshalls Marshall's statement that Jackson was at first t opposed to the flank movement That That accumulation of ot evidence is deci decisive slue sive and sho should ld settle forever fore a matter which has been debated for Cor sixty years The scene at ur which thi this plan was discussed ed isone Is Isone Isone one of ot the most famous in American history In Inthe the chapter in lutes Tate's book Lwok dealing with the battle bat tle tie of ot Chancellorsville there Is a chapter subhead appropriately called Two Cracker Boxes In which the scene Is dc described as follows After midnight Lieutenant Smith Jacksons Jackson's aide I woke chilled by the damp night air He sat sal up and and looked ed round A hundred feet away up a aslope slope among the trees two dim figures were gathering gathering gathering gath gath- ering pine twigs and throwing them on a little fire warming their hands as ns the blaze rose They j sat t t iown on two cracker boxes bates left leCt by the retreatIng retreatIng retreating retreat- retreat Ing Federals the day before The wind rustled the pines Their loneliness was absolute not another man could b be seen One of the figures holding his face so that the flickering light played over It had hadon hadon hadon on a felt Celt hat and wore a short beard which was gray The second figure sat humped over the fire his head drawn down clown Into his coat collar his long dark beard on his chest Down low over his forehead forehead forehead fore fore- head rested the visor of a forage cap hiding his eyes the dim light threw shifting shifting- beams ben on his bis sharp aquiline nose To Lieutenant Smith drifted d th the murmur of voices the words were caught up In the breeze and lost In the pines he tell fell asleep again The men talked on In the night t. t It was Just daylight when Lee turned turne to Jackson and said How shall we get at those people General Jackson what do dOl you propose to do Go Co round there he said running his finger r rover over the map What do you YOl propose to make the movement with 7 With my whole corps he said laId What will you leave me The rhe divisions of Anderson and McLaws Lee tho thought about It a moment then the he said Well go on He took a a pencil and moving It up and down gave Jackson his last In instructions Jackson sat at smiling and nodding his head bead Then getting get ting up from his cracker box he saluted My troops will move at once sir sirl If It the plan was Le Lees Lee's s 's the exe execution on of of df It If was Jacksons Jackson's and the result resul Is this history how historY how this surprise surprIse surprise sur sur- prise attack nn Howards Howard's corps rolled the th right of If the Union Onion army back in confusion how the thc punk panic spread through Hookers Hooker's army and how hem Jackson saw his Ills chance chane to destroy the whole Federal force farce Then In the moment of his S thIs tills brills brilliant ant lender leader of his devoted ted Stonewall Brigade who v. have foli followed awed Old Jack n anywhere was struck down by the bullets of his own men who saw a shadowy group of ot horsemen anc and thought they were ere Federal cavalry Lee Iee hearing of ot the tragedy wrote ln n n It t note He lie said I cannot ex express my regret ut r this occurrence Could I J have directed e events I should have chosen for the good of th the a country to he be disabled In your stead I congratulate u upon on th the victory which our you Jon 1 Is Ia due to y our si- si sin sl sand n I anI argil and energy n nerg 1 There here e spoke the great man who would give ghe praise SG l to n a subordinate te for success and an wo who woW ho would have ha been bEen a equally qually quick to tC have e assumed as full re for Hates Hate's failure If he h hod haild failed faller l' l When hen L Lees Lee's es e's aide he Jackson Jack Jacl son sou the note lote he saId General Lee t Is Isen en kind hut but but- Ile he should praise morning Jackson give e to God God Th The e next next Lee seemed to be fitting e better Ietter u and tJ e sent this s message Give Ghe him regards and tell II him 1 m t. t to 0 make e my affectionate haste grid an d sari g get t well come bad bael to tome me us as soon 0 I as he Ie can lost hIs hIs' He has left b arm but U t I I have IU C lost my right But though his b woun wounds s were healing I ng l h o non by hit lIlt ville de hl et before Clra developed I Tat r. r u e a described bed the g teat great warrior as foll earl I 0 of f this vs 1 o. o then His he i Ittle W foil girl Into WaR delirium bl Fought ou ht II He I in n. n and ff 5 he brightened was on the talked talked battlefield NJ No Ie H B le Now For a pong time he he I rl ire I was RS at Lex eton la l lay y s st Then en Order A A. 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