Identifier: appealtoarms186120hosm (find matches)
Title: The appeal to arms, 1861-1863
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
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or of an ancient judge ofIsrael — a Jephthah or a Joshua. An officer oncebefore Jackson expressed his admiration of thebravery of a Federal squad who had lost their livesin a charge they had made; he was sorry to seesuch gallant men destroyed. The general dryly re-marked: No, shoot them all. I do not wish themto be brave. He even put foi-ward the dangerousdoctrine that it was the true policy of the South totake no prisoners alive.^ His likeness to JohnBrown is apparent in small ways as well as in mainlines of character: when Lee once received fromStonewall Jackson a requisition for pikes, one won-ders if the demand for the Cromwellian weaponrecalled to him that other grim Ironsides whom, to-gether with his pikes, he, only a little while before,had captured at Harpers Ferry. Jacksons early career was no more promisingthan that of Grant, except that he never gave wayto weakness.^ A friendless boy, who by some * Dahney, Jackson, I., 100, ^ Ibid., 224. ^Henderson, Jackson, I., i et seq.
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i862) THE VALLEY 141 chance got into West Point, he was known thereonly as a youth dull, plodding, correct. Returningfrom Mexico, where he was little marked, he was forten years at the Virginia Military Institute, atLexington, as a teacher of mathematics, in whichposition he gained no distinction. He was, in fact,a very poor teacher, and a movement was on footto have the fool Jackson removed for utter in-competency. ^ Though he did famous service atBull Run, and was made a major-general, even asa soldier he narrowly escaped premature blight.In command in the lower Shenandoah Valley, inthe fall and winter of 1861, he offended his soldiersand his chief subordir .ce, W. W. Loring, by hissevere enforcement of duty. From this apparently unbalanced and erratic mancame, in the spring of 1862, a campaign in theShenandoah Valley which surprised the world by itsbrilliancy and brought deep humiliation to theNorth. Did he strike out a new path in soldiership,or simply follow a beaten track ? Gene

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