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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
roop, and Dr. Martin Scott, formerly a professor in the Medical College, of this city, younger brothers of Robert E., having already earned a high reputation — the one by his political writings, and the other by his skill in his profession. Robert E. Scott was educated at the University of Virginia, which he entered during the first session in 1825, and did not leave until he had passed through all the classes. He took at college the stand which he maintained through life. He became notices t of any man who represented Virginia in his time. He was in the late Convention, and was distinguished for the zeal with which he opposed secession, as long as he believed it possible, consistently with honor, to hold on to the Union. Robert E. Scott was a man of the most inflexible integrity. He thought for himself, and he thought powerfully. When his convictions were once certain, he maintained them with unflinching tenacity. Yet his firmness, great as it was, never degenerated into
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Chattanooga, Tenn. (search)
nnot be a General who has not rubbed against the walls of one of these institutions. Napoleon would have been Napoleon if he had never been in a school of arms, just as Alexander, Cœsar, and Hannibal were without any such advantages. What would have become of our Revolution without Washington, who never had a military cation? The last war with England would never have known its greatest victory but for the farmer Jackson, who defended successfully against the picked veterans of England that city which a graduate of West Point has given up without firing a gun ! Even Scott himself, who gained such laurels in that war, was not educated to the profession of arms. West Point is very well, but we must not deify it. It is an admirable school, but human nature and the management of volunteers are not taught there. Some of its Southern graduates now in command of our armies, happily for us, are not mere men of science, and fully deserve the confidence of their soldiers and the country.