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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], A tribute to Gen. Jackson. (search)
A tribute to Gen. Jackson. --In the report of Secretary Seddon the following tribute to Stonewall Jackson occurs: Around him clustered, with peculiar warmth, their gratitude, their affections, and their hopes. --His deeds had approved him a warrior of the highest order, as the whole tenor of his life, in peace as in war, had shown him the very type and model of the Christian hero. From the first battle of Manas as, when by his firmness and invincible will he earned the title now indissolubly connected with his name, down to the battle of Chancellorsville, where his dauntless valor struck its final and most decisive blow, he was identified with almost every important movement and brilliant victory in Virginia. He had lived long enough to reap a full harvest of fame, to have become an example of his countrymen, and the admiration of the civilized world. But to the Confederacy his loss is felt to be not only irreparable, because the memory of his deeds and the spirit h