Happy Birthday General!
Posted on 01/21/2009 8:03:43 AM PST by Davy Buck
Born the third child of Jonathan and Julia Beckwith Neale Jackson on January 21 in Clarksburg, Virginia . . .
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Happy Birthday General!
His ability to get the most out of his troops is only exceeded by his well documented insanity....(chuckle)
‘Pepper makes my left leg weak’
‘I must sit perfectly upright, lest my internal organs shift’
And the documentation proving he ordered 20,000 PIKES for his ‘foot cavalry’......
Hard man, very good general. Pity he was cut down before he could have faced off against some competent Northern Generals, thats always been the fly in the oinment for historians. IN the Valley Campaign(s) he face off against political hacks and peacetime Generals, and utterly destroyed them, as history shows.
But could he have done any better against Sheridan than Jubal Early did in that same famous valley, the Shenendoah?
We’ll never know.
Likewise, would Gettysburg had really been ‘different’ in a positive way for the South, if he had survived Chancellorsville?
I personally think he would have gotten his corps decimated at Gettysburg had he been there, but thats just one mans opinion.
General Lee’s last visit to Stonewall Jackson’s grave, painting by Louis Eckhardt, 1872. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_at_Jackson_grave.jpg
Toasting with a glass of lemon juice?
‘Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.’ - The last words of Stonewall Jackson, uttered in delirium as he lay dying after having his arm amputated.
Isn’t Jackson buried in two different locations? I believe his arm is somewhere else rather than where the rest of him is buried in Lexington.
“Sir, we shall give them the bayonet!” - Jackson to Gen. Bee at the first battle of Bull Run.
T. J. Jackson is one of my all time Heroes!
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