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Dowell's victory, and held his position until Kirby Smith and Early came up on the flank.
Jeb Stuart made a successful cavalry charge, Johnston and Beauregard had time to hurry up other troops, and a great Confederate victory was snatched from impending disaster.
The name which the gallant Bee, about to yield up his noble life, gave Jackson that day, clung to him ever afterwards, and he will be known in history not by the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson, which his parents gave him, but as Stonewall Jackson.
And yet the name was a misnomer.
Thunderbolt, Tornado or Cyclone would be more appropriate to Jackson's character as a soldier.
I cannot, within the proper limits of this paper, give even an outline of Jackson's subsequent career as a soldier — that would be to sketch the history of the Army of Northern Virginia, while he remained in it. But I propose rather to give and illustrate several salient points in his character as a soldier.
First, I notice Jackson's rapidity of m
tates Navy, from Georgia, who, when the war began, commanded a merchant steamer running between New York and a Southern port.
They might have searched the world over and would have failed to find another combining all the qualifications needed, as preeminently as he did. His heart was thoroughly in the cause and he threw his whole body and soul into his work.
To his judgment, sagacity, energy and tact, was due the possession and fitting out of the Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Rappahannock, Stonewall, Shenandoah, and the building of the ironclad rams at Liverpool and the vessels in France.
Such of these vessels as took the sea, took it not as privateers, as they were called by some; not as pirates, as our enemies opprobriously spoke of us, but as armed government vessels of war, commanded and officered by men born in the South and holding commissions in the Confederate States Navy, of a government whose belligerent rights were acknowledged by the kingdoms of the earth—commissions as
H. 273
Harper's Ferry, Jackson's Demonstration on, 241
Harrison, Jr., Gen. Paul, 66
Hartsville, Tenn., Battle of 262
Haskells of S. C., Remarkable Record of, 151
Henderson Judge Don E., 185
Hickman, Capt., Wm. Lewis, 279
Hood's Texas Brigade Fame of, 185
Houston, Gen. Sam; Why he Left his Bride, 146
Hutchinson Miss Mary.
303
Hunter Major Robert W.. 132
Hutter, Col., J. Risque, 857
Jackson, Capt. John H., 280
Jackson, Gen. T. J. Career of, 79 How he was called Stonewall, 80
Valley Campaign of, 82 Demonstration on Harpers' Ferry, 341 At Chancellorsville 87 Severe discipline of 89 Fatal wounding of 96 Valentine's statue of, 97
Johnson, Col. Adam R., 111
Johnston, Gen., Albert Sydney, killed, 214
Johnston, Miss, Mary, 29
Jones, Col. John M., 84
Jones, Dr., J. William, 79
Jordan, Gen. Thomas 204
Kautz, Gen. Adam V. 1
Keiley, Anthony M., 17
Kentucky Cavalry. The 11th, 259 Captured, 274
Roll of officers and men, with statistics, 276,