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JACKSON'S BATTLE FAW
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A BAYONET CHARGE WAS TO FIM M
RAPTURE OF THE STRIPE. /
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His Remarkable Prophecy - -Ttk ' e
layed Message to the Six Reslf
Brigades at Gaines's Milt?
Cor. the Charlotte Observer. jfThe litDavidson,
October 22.-4>f? whene
tic chapel of Davidson Colle<ir '
r , ! Exercises
morning prayers arc daily I,
where many of the public#^ UjCe'
of campu9 and village take . jlnCj"
the scene of a notcworth^jP f0wR ?f
orable occasion today, j In.> ?
o .1 - -Jie restlul uuict
.w.v- u UV-IUVK. at u,u KTjcr afternoon,
the college bell upon ^ a33rlnblc.l
udc of an ideal OctoR, L Uabnc?
student body and villa* in ,hc min.
to hear .lie Rev. Uobf j.rcsb?.criatl
P- ecncrablefaj^s, ,)nJvidson
istry of the South.)- been all iniporChurch-?of
which tL ,lis lcclur3 ' n
has for six decadef Whi,c nU(H.
tant feeder c i^'c vcncr (b|c g0rvant
Stonewall ducky t,mir ? |hc ros.
cnce gathered, j lm c!tw<
of God satin tf, forWRr,, tllc sliK|lt.
trum, liisright^ tho 8now.w,,it t.
his head '"c ^ falling upon bis breast,
less eyes clos?hc * ^ in ,.ea9closs
riarchal bean )fedri*i(1, t0 mini, ,he
He seemed ^|c , in |lU kst
prayer an' 0 bioroglvphed Egyptian
]>ic or, 0 |1C "worsliippcd, leaning
u" of his stuff." But us
c 1am i r, _rcc^ ^jg ^jJicnce, which
upon the ^ of gp
:?cc in the '
rn r?S? Jtraightening for the moment
li led cvfof" from his tall form,
thePcr^CTcJ in bcst da>'3 Hkc " .
,i * . ? sycamore, he wai transhat
tov " u-'was a mol))ent ?f rreur.
ip- ocn ^ c jn(0 youth Greeting
or"?e ' ence unseen by himself, and
'?nJating himself, while he conhisan<ri
:, ..j. .11.. - t
then a ,"19 lu??n?rijr nuuress 10 irs
tinuet**100.' formed the centre of a ^
concl#& picture that will i " r I
i strikiP1? minds oftliosc who saw it. C
IIul 'ovc f?r Stonewall Jackson
amouif|s a passion. His car -woin
face liS^cd UP with lmppin' s as he t
lived ox?1" ngain the stirr.' / battle p
scenes of1 ^le so'i of the Olu Doinin- v
ion, and* as his thoughts clustered j
lovingly Vtround the memory of the j
Southernylcro? expression leaped into ,]
his sightlp8 ey?s and they Hashed ?j
with the j sheet-lightning they had r
once sccn\ i? meeting those of his j
great comnVmder on the old Virginia c
battlefields A r
In the au<riencc were veterans and t
many visitors $"om several adjoining ,
counties. \ 1
Tho lecture w^s opened with a beau- g
tiful prayer by Jhc Ilev. Alfred T. (
Graham, whose parents were life-long j
friends of Dr., lXtbney, and who en- <
te.iamcd nTm while he was in Win- (
Chester during the fighting there. ]
President Shearer introduced the ,
lecturer in appropriate words.
A TRIBUTE Yo MRS. JACKSON.
Rising to greet his applauding auditors,
and then again seating himself,
Dr. Dabney began by stating that he
had been Jackson's chief of staff during
two campaigns. In speaking of
Jackson, he said, he had been forestalled
by others, who had written of
the great general. He himself had
written an octavo volume on the life
of this genius of the civil war. The
graceful and elegant pen of the wife
of Gen. Jackson, whose home was
only 20 miles distant, had portrayed
the interior of his character. Having
in mind the amaranthine garland
with which her love had crowned the
great warrior's memory, the speaker
reinurked that he himself felt like the
wise man of old who said. "What
can I do, w ho cometh after the Queen?"
He would only narrate, he said, a
train of unconnected incidents portraying
Jackson, the man. His
audience would excuse the "I," in
his discourse, which he might not he
able entirely to eliminate, hut he
jjj asked thein to bear in mind that he
v< only used it as the sworn w itness
whose earnest attempt was to speak
the truth, the whole truth und notlitho
but the truth,
itli
[)H- A l'tw.SBYTEItlAN PARSON FOIl C1IIKF
OK STAFF.
The ecturer said that March, 1S(?1,
pj found hm at his home siek of the
camp fiver, contracted while performing
thf duties of chaplain in the Confederacy.
To his utter surprise, he?
a minster of the Gospel, entirely igInoraH
of military affairs?received si
very brief lettor from Gen. Jackson,
Bkrng him to serve as chief of the
I
general s stair, ant^^HHTg oy saying
that the duties of officer were
principally ''diliee^HB-impartiality
1 and early rising. j|
Seeking an intervIHMfith Jackson
after his recovery, Di^krtmcy found
him in the Shenafl&h valley.
Pleading as an excusefflfcoor health,
the Christiun soldier ? to him:
(klf God intends vdSnto nerfnrm
this service lie will
I will equip yon with aru^yi:htf(Mri&
and mount." * ,
"Hut 1 know nothing pf JMlitary
"You can learn," brief&oflimh
3ledge-hamtncr accent otflHTword
Then, handing hitn attfcpuual of
tactics, the general said t Sou may
have the remainder of todflPand two
days more to inform yoursjff I will
then announce you as npF chief of
It appeared to be quite iwnatter of
banter in the army that Ji?kson had
chosen an "iron-clad M^sbytcrian
parson" for his chief of staff. While
the lecturer did not even intimate as
much, anyone in the audience who
read, as it were, between flie lines of
his address, must have seen that there
sprang up between chieftain and
chaplain a silent, subtle understanding
of each other, which feould hardly
have existed between the great Christian
lighter and a military man depending
for help more upon arms
that upon the Almighty. It often
enabled Mujoi Dabney to anticipate 1
the wishing and needs of Gen. Jack- J
son. r.
Major Dabney asked (ML Jackson 1
vhat a staff ofheer oughtAdo under *
ire. The reply was. "{fitect him- f
iclf." Should he avail IjBelf of the '
irotection of a tree wheJ?*ave men ^
vere under fire arounflgBm ? was
Lskcd. "Yes, sir. EflEner your J
dversary as much aj^Brscan and I
irotcct yourself all When 1
-sked if he Lvtllfi ;l
? i?-10 jTreaenrng ^flotien- "
ral smiled and chungod the subject. "
JACKSON'S HATTLE FACE.
A vivid word picture by the lec- s
urer, who is a master of English, s
lortrayed Jackson in the moment of b
ictor}*. It was when he was pursu- s
ng the enemy who had taken refuge u
n Winchester. The batdc was on.
ackson dispatched Major Dabncy to o
Taylor's Louisiana brigade, held as t
eservc, to engage Qic enemy on the v
eft. The chief of staff left on his ti
rrand. When the Louisianians had r
cached the point at which they were s
o go into the charge Jackson sudlenly
appeared. Major Dabncy said 1
ic did not know what the General's i
mdden appearance meant, but enter i
aincd a Saint suspicion that Jackson t
lad some fears as to whether his new 1
diicf of staff would have the men in i
the right place at the right time. "1 i
liad t lein ll e e, though," he said,
und there was a triumphant ring in '
his voice over the very recollection, i
"I felt," continued the lecturer, in
substance, "that I knew what Jack- 1
son's desisrn was. lie meant for the
"" o
Louisiana men to overlap, on the extreme
left, the enemy's extreme right.
My conclusion proved to be correct.
The brigade went into the charge.
Jackson rode to the top of a stna'l
hill, planted in clover just bursting
into blossoms. I followed close at
his elbow. He rode near the top of
the hill and looked over toward the
left of the line. Instinctively he
plunged his s urs into his horse's
flanks and dashed to the top of the'
hill.
"Taylor's supberb Louisianians had
fired one volley, and, in unbroken
line, were charging bayonets, driving
the enemy !
"Jackson was in a state of tower
ing exultation and intense excitement.
I lis face was set and pale. It was
not flushed. There was on it the
pallor of death and the grimness of
death?but his expression was one of
deathly determination. It wn9 the
crisis of the battle and the dawn of
the victory. The splendid charge of
the Louisiana men had decided the
day.
44 'Everybody forward after the
enemy,' shouted Jackson, and lie galloped
to the front, leading in the
charge as the enemy lied through the
streets of Winchester.
' Only once afterward did I ever
see this expression of deathly determination
on the face of Gen Jackson,"
continued Major Dahney. Strange
as it seems,* however, he stated that
a famous French artist (whose name
I eludes the pencil point) has caught
this exprcsssiorl in a portrait of Jackson
now in Richmond. The artist
never sow the general alive, but for
half an hour lie studied the face of
the dead, as the remains lay in state
at Richmond, after Chanccllorsville,
Dr. Dabney thought lis success was
in seeitig the fece m deuth?that face
that took on tbe deathly look in the
tide of battle. Mrs. Jackson, when
she first saw the portrait, was apparently
disappointed, and' Hft&fehripk
my, IWl ahe tmd: * "L
Q.ever saw that look on my husband's4
face." 4tOf coarse not," said the
speaker, "She never saw him in battle."
A Oil EAT SOLDIER AND PROPHET.
Jackson, one May Sabbath, rode
off to hear his chief of staff preach to
a brigade which had 110 chaplain. As
they rode along, Major Dabney respectfully
and circumspectly questioned
General Jackson as to his
ideas of the administration of the
Pmfedefate government. "1 have
heard, general," he said, '"that you
have rigid views regarding the cartel
o 'y < O
for the exchange of prisoners."
The rep'v was substantially- this* I
"Wc are nut conducting our war fa re ,
as a country with inferior numbers
fighting for its liberties should do.
Our struggle is not one for territory
or national renown. It is a struggle
for social existence. We should take
no prisoners, and no prisoners shoul 1
be taken from us. My opposition to
the cartel for the exchange of prisaners
is based on humane grounds. 1*
Let the Yankee soldiers undorstat.d
;hat they have taken their lives in
heir hands. Let our men have a
tiuiilar understanding. Some will be
mtchorcd. The* fighting will be B
doodicr but the quicker ended.*' "
' Then," said Dr. Dabncy, ''(Jen.
Jackson pr ?vcd himself to be a
trophct. He said: 'Lincoln lias said
hat this will not he a war f?r the
bolition of the s'aves, but it will be.
ghtus. The Yankees "wiTTcVetrtTC- ^
land that they be eotisidered as prisncrs
of war, entitled to the rights of
ucli prisoners." " The general then
aid that while be opposed the cartel,
ic respected it as it existed, and would
ec that bis own piisotiers were liuiiattely
treated.
Hiding on, the chit 1 of stall pointed
ut where lie feared were certain misakes
on the part of the Confederacy,
, .1 i > ? - ? i 1-1
men me general, turning suuucmy
ipon liiui, cried out : "Major Dnbicy,
please stop. You make nie low fl
pirited." \
After tlic short silence which fol ^
owed, General Jackson said, in a sublued
way: "You know, Major Dabicy,
that no man has tenderer home
;ies or more to live for than I. Yet
[ can truthfully say that I do not
ivish to survive the independence of
ny country."
Continuing the lecturer remarked :
'Some one has impressively said : '1
understand why Jackson died at
Chancellorsville. God took him away
that his wish might be fulfilled.' "
a luci'LOHAiii.ii ni.t>v?:n.
On one oceasion lkg4?*>r Dabney
asked General Jucksontf he thought
that after first Manassas the Confederate
plan in w aiting two weeks in the "
ruin for the camp fever to c.mc w as
correct. Turning upon his chief of
staff almost fiercely, his eyes blazing,
Jackson answered sharply : "No sir.
It w as a deplorable blunder. Did you
L-nmv k!iv that 1 1.000 fresh troans
came in that night and the next day?"
And Dr. Dabney said he knew it, for
he remembered the train loads of fresh
troop", a mile it) length, and every
coacn crowded with men.
TUB IMTTI.B OF (JAINBs'.S Ml 1.1..
Jackson, after his valley campaign
had sent Lee word that if he would
fend him reinforcements he would go
to Washington, hut Lee instead sent
for him to come to the defence of
Richmond, then threatened. The
aged lecturer drew a graphic picture
of Jackson at the battle of (laincs's
Mill.
''The Yankees wc-rc commanded by
Fitzjohn Porter. lie was the best
general they had, and he fought that
battle with consummate skill, and yet
thev dishonored him. and it was only
his old age that his honors was restored
to him,"' said the speaker, with
evident indignation over the treatment
his brave opponent had undergone.
When the battle was joined .lackson
noticed that his chief of start''was
ill. He noticed the fact just after
delivering a highly important mcs[c'ONTlN
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