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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
Editorial Paragraphs.
General Grant's table-talk has of late excited a good deal of attention and comment in the public press.
A number of Northern papers have had severe criticisms of statements in reference to different Federal Generals, but of these we have nothing to say; nor do we propose any detailed reply to his comments on Southern Generals.
His disparaging remarks about Stonewall Jackson, and his opinion that he would have been badly beaten if Sheridan or any of our great generals had been opposed to him, excite a smile and a fervent wish from an old foot cavalryman that Sheridan, or even Grant himself, had been in Jackson's front on that memorable Valley campaign.
It is useless to speculate on what the result would have been; but we feel every confidence that Cavalry Sheridan would never afterwards have awakened the poet's lyre, and that the world would never have had this table-talk.
His remark, I have had nearly all of the Southern Generals in high command i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Gettysburg campaign --official reports. (search)