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VOL 37 - JACKSON AND LEE.

#TORIES OF TWO OF THE CONFED- ERACY’S GREAT GENERALS.

ghe First Year of the War Jackson Was Called “Crazy,” but That Opinion Did Lee's Darky Cook and HSHis

Not Last Flapjacks Saved the Union at Gettysburg.

Strange, is it not, that Jackson, like

Sherman, should have been considered #epazy’’ the first year of the war? Ine ccd, before the war so eccer tric was he ti.at he

gas valled ‘Crazy Jack’ at the Virginia Military institute. Nobody seemed to un- derstand him. But soit has ever been and ever will be—when we ordinary mor-

can’t comprehend a genius we get even with bis by calling him crazy.

I remember well how uneasy some of the Confederaté generals were when placed under Jackson's comimand in early 1862. Ewell didn’t like it and Dick Taylor didn’t like it. They were afraid Jackson ould lead them into some awful scrape or other. And when Ewell, with his divi- sion, was lying near Gordonsville in late April, 1862, but subject to Jackson’s or- ders, Ewell and Taylor were very anxious to get from under him—teither to go dewn to Joe Johnston at Yorktown, or to have gome general sent to the valley who would rank with Jackson. So, at Taylor’s in- stance, he was sent to Richmond by Ewell to see Mr. Davis, his brother-in-law, and Mr. Benjamin, then secretary of state, but recently secretary of war, about getting away from Jackeon. But while Taylor was gone Jackson ordcred Ewell to ‘‘come atunning”’ to the valley! The camp he bad left in the morning at Swiit River Gap, on the northwest side of the Blue Ridge, Ewell occupied that night. Jack- gon was gone, he knew not where. The valley campaign hed opened. He was mak- ing his strategic detour hack southwest over the Blue Ridge toward Charlottes- ville, hence west by rail past Staunton to Buffalo Gapand thence northward by long marches to McDowell, where he struck Milroy. But there we were for a few days at Swift Run Gap without hear- ing a thing of Jackson. Ccneral Ewell! may have known where he was, but | doubt it.

Meanwhile Taylor returned from Rich- mond tothe old cainp near Gordonsville to find that Ewell had gone to Jackson in the valley. Taylor was thunderstruck. One of his commands hzppened to be a lit- tle way out from camp on the read toward Gordonsville, when Taylor came rattling down the mountain side inghis ambulance. He asked me what meant General Ewell’s being ordered to the valley. I told him I did not know. He then asked me where General Jackson was. | again had to con- fess my ignorance and could only say that he had broken camp on accrtain morning, going with his own division southwest, no one seemed to know where, and that Gen- eral Ewell cccupied his camp that night and had been there ever since.

“Well,” said Taylor, ‘‘this is strange. Nobody at Richmond knows anything about it. Dut,’’ he added, ‘‘there is one consolation. We won't be under this d——d old crazy foc! longer. General Longstreet is coming up here to take com- mand.’’

It was too late, however, to change com- Manders. Jackson was then fighting Mil- roy far to the west cf us. He probably never knew how near he came to missing his great fame in tho valley, and that in that campaign he not only defeated four Federal commanders, but ‘‘outflanked”’ two of his own best generals and the “folks” back at Richmond.

Jackson disturbed his immediate subor- dinates by never telling them his plans or consulting them. They had simply to fol- low him blindly. He never explained any proposed campaign to a subordinate or ealled a counci) of war or asked advice. Soon after Ewell joincd him in the valley I remember riding with General Taylor

and coming von Gencral Ewell. Taylor fisked him {.hat the movement meant. In his curt, balf abstracted way Ewell re- plied: “I dou't know. If General Jackson were shot down, I wouldn’t know a thing of bis plans.”’ ‘‘What!’’ said Taylor. ‘* You second in command and gon’t know? IfI were second in command, I would know.”’

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in his cdd way. nolaing nis nesa wens side 11k¢C a sap sucker peeping around @& tree. ‘‘No, you wouldn’t know any more than I donow. You don’t yet know the man.” But Ewell and Taylor found their ‘“‘crazy,’’ reticent commander to have more war sense than all gf them put together. So they ever pinned their faith to. him, ad- mired bim and loved bim.

Our great General Lee was the victim of an indigestion, and it cost the south dear.

battle of Gettysburgis a singular exeep- tion to General Lee’s battles. It wasn’t General Lee who fought it. It shouldn’t count against him. His usual skill is wanting at Gettysburg. ‘Fhere must be a cause for it. He was sick, and not in pos- session of his usual equanimity and fine mental powers. Those near him at the time tell us this, and from some of them the story of how it came about has leaked out. General Lee was very fond ef old Vir- ginia flapjacks—wondrous cakes.of African inyention—thin as a wafer and big nearly asa eart wheel, and when made of new flour and served hot, with fresh butter ned maple molasses and folded and folded, lavers thick, are a feast for the geds. But Gencral Lee, the bestand tenderess of men =s wellas the greatest, hadn’t it in his heart to fare well—much as his ample menrs would have ahowed—when bis men were suffering for food, and if one wanted x poor dinner he had enly to drop in on General Lee at that hour. He lived but » better than his men. ‘This greatly isturbed his darky cook, and when ihe » my atlvanced inte Pennsylvania, flowing ich milk and honey and othergeod things

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It is satisfactory to have a story like this on high medical authority: Dr. Fricker, head physician of the Evangelical hospital, in Odessa, describes in The Ger- man Medical Weekly the case of a woman, 82 years of age, who comes of a healthy family, but abouta yearand a half ago the loss of achild caused a temporary nerv- ous disorder. Three months ago, on the death of a second child, this was renewed and developed into decided melancholia. The patient declared her resolution to commit suicide. She began by drinking leum and a solution of carbolic acid, but these did not kill her. Then she swal- lowed needles, small buttons and nails. These failing, she turned her attention, in an asyluin to which she had been taken, te larger objects—hairpins, steel pins and long nails. This being also done in vain, she swallowed among other things a cro- chet needle, pieces of glass, two teaspoons, a fork and a piece of iron. On the surgeon asking how she could swallow those rather bulky objects, she answered quite calmly: ‘‘Oh, it is quite easy with the handle first. You will,’’ she said, ‘‘find a whole store of things in my stomach.”’ In his operation Dr. Fricker took out of his patient’s stomach a key about 8 inches long, a silver teaspoon 6 inches long, a plated teaspoon 5% inches long, a plated fork 8 inches long, two nails, one 234 inches and the other 3% inches; two hairpins, 12 pieces of glass, an iron hook about 4 inches in size, a steel pin, nine needles, a piece of graphite, a boot button, a grape stone, two little balls of tin foil and a crochet needle 44 inches long. Altogether there were removed from the stomach 37 objects. The operation was successful, and the patient was dismissed, cured.

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Mr. Stanton, soon after he left John- son’s cabinet, wrote somewhat in these terms to the Hon. J. K. Muirhead, who was for many years member of congress from the Pittsburg district:

Dear GeneRat—I am in need of money, even for marketing. I could get all I want, if I would let my poverty be known, by a public subscription. But you know I would not think of permitting such a thing. I want to borrow $3,000. My security, yeu know, is sufficient in the coal lands we own together.

General Muirhead told me this soon aft- er receiving Stanton’s letter. He was my kinsman and most intimate friend, and he was aware of my friendship for many years for Mr. Stanton. My first acquaint- ance with the great lawyer was made in 1850 in Philadelphia, where he was argu- ing before the supreme court, I believe, what was known as the Wheeling bridge tase. I know he was in great poverty when he ceased to be secretary of war, and that he borrowed this money, and it was paid back afterward. James L. Claghorn and the Union league of Philadelphia soon after Mr. Stanton’s death raised a fund of $100,000 for his family. Iwas a subscriber to the fund. At that time I lived in Wil- liamsport, Pa. Henry Dundas, when sec- retary of war under William Pitt, and while England was putting forth every man and dollar to break the power of Na- poleon Bonaparte, cook a bribe of £100,- 000. Our great secretary, if he had de- sired, had the opportunity to acquire wealth beyond the greed of avarice. but he died in absolute poverty. We should all be proud of his memory.—J. B. M. in New York Sun.

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