Posted on 12/08/2020 7:31:25 AM PST by Perseverando
A lot of historical ebooks. Some free, and some "to borrow" ebooks on Stonewall Jackson .
Get them before the Commies have them cancelled.
(I recommend the .pdf formats.) PDF formats seem to have fewer issues as far as optical character recognition errors.
I do know that Stonewall Jackson was willing to break the law and teach his slaves to read and write.
Absolutely!
Thanks for yhe heads up. Looks like a wealth of edifying reading.
There's no evidence that Jackson taught his slaves or anyone else's slave to read and write. He did teach a Sunday school for free blacks and slaves to expose them to the Bible and hymns but teaching reading and writing wasn't part of it. Such schools were not uncommon in the south at the time and had they interfered with the property of the church members then such schools would have been brought to a rapid halt.
Even though the schools were legal there were plenty who were opposed to the idea of even Bible study for blacks and Jackson was quite steadfast in his support for the school.
No problemo. The site works very well for "Robert E. Lee," for example, Grant, or any other name or subject. Use the little box just to the left of the texts and below the "### Results" field. I find that works better. Also, note the you can sort the list.
Jackson historian Michael Aubrecht states: “ It wasn’t legal in Virginia at that time to teach slaves to read and write, but Jackson defied that directive. In order to conduct bible studies he had to do so.”
Jackson historian Byron Farwell went into detail on the school.
"School began promptly at three o'clock each Sunday, and there were no latecomers. Jackson locked the doors. Service began with a hymn, invariably "Amazing Grace," for this was the only song he could manage to make recognizably tuneful. (Dr. White, peaking of Jackson's ignorance of "the science of music," declared that he had "neither the ear or the voice for singing.") Jackson then led the school in prayer, which was followed by relating a story or reading passage from the Bible, after which the pupils were turned over to teachers for lessons drawn from the Shorter Catechism or perhaps Charles Colock Jones's A Catechism for Colored Persons. When called together again they sang, said a prayer, and were dismissed. Under Jackson's supervision the entire session lasted exactly forty-five minutes."
There were no lessons in reading and writing in any of that. Anyone who has read up on Jackson knows that he was a disciplined man with a strong feeling of right and wrong and a respect for authority. The idea that he would break the law by teaching slaves to read or write is nonsense. Likewise, the idea that he would interfere with another man's property by teaching their slave to read and write is equally hard to believe. Jackson would not sit back and allow another to do that to his slaves, why on earth would he do it to someone else's?
It would appear there is a difference between the historians and the matter is unresolved to me.
I think that we can agree that Jackson was one of the better Confederate generals of the war regardless of whether or not he taught slaves to read.
Absolutely. His loss just months before the battle of Gettysburg was devastating to the South. Especially when one studies how the first day of the battle played out.
There's no guarantee he would have made a difference. Lee was planning the reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia from two corps to three for months prior to Chancellorsville and Ewell was always slated to get the new command. It is entirely possible that Ewell would still have been the commander coming in from the north on day one, and Jackson could easily have been the one coming in on day 2 instead of Longstreet.
Dr Robertson said once there would be no Gettysburg if Jackson had lived. Confederate troops averaged 10 mi a day travel. Army of Shenandoah.. 25 mi. Jackson would have engaged in Schenectady NY or Bangor Me. by that time, LOL
Either way Jackson would have been more aggressive once engaged. The ultimate result may have ended up the same but it certainly would have played out differently. Further, had Ewell still commanded the Corps in the north, then Jackson would have been commanding the 3rd Corps and he wouldn’t have completely disappeared on day two the way AP Hill did.
Jackson was disengaged from the rest of the ANV during the Valley campaign in what was essentially an independent command. Had he been part of the Gettysburg campaign he would have had to have moved in conjunction with rest of the army. Further, Jackson had a serious case of the slows in the battle of 7 days. So, I’m not sure I agree with Dr. Robinson.
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