| Show shakespearian shakespearean touch in Pass passing irig of stonewall OR a natural masterpiece of dying FOR nothing lias has eig even impressed mpr essed me so much as the deatti dearbo deat bO cog stonewall jackson writes charles D stewart in the atlantic monthly the bullets that struck him down while he was reconnoiter reconnoitering ing after his successful attack at chancellorsville I 1 came by mistake from some of his own men eight days afeei after being wounded having borne up under the amputation ot of an arm he passed away in n delirium and history has recorded afi the thin ga he said as he died order A P hill to pre prepare jare for battle battie tell major hawks to advance the commissary train let us cross the river and rest in the 1 shade it was a stubborn battle a hot fight with quick strategy and high and rapid thinking and alien when it was over he crossed to the other side he must have entered into peace riding at the head of army for certainly if it had not been a victory he would not have alv given n that order to cross the river and rest in the shade here was aa a truly shakespearean pearean passing it Is great drama atten by life itself if shakespeare had found it standing thus in plutarch he would have kept it and made no alteration a thing he was great enough to do jacksons death was a greater gi eater shock to the south than to is easy to conc conceive elve it was an event that filled the southerners not only with sorrow but with forebodings of defeat for his hig victories had been and eo 60 almost certain that they had learned to depend upon hini him its as on some newly invented engine engan 6 of war |
