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To: carton253

"Yes, they had minor disagreements, but as for Jackson wanting to do lots of things and Lee just ignoring him or ordering him not to do... just not true."

The "pike" story comes to mind.....as in Jackson's ordering the commission of thousands of pikes for his infantry. At the end of the war, they were still in the same warehouses in Richmond where they were originally sent after being made.


124 posted on 07/12/2004 10:04:21 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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To: Badeye
The pike story gets trotted out alot, but it has nothing to do with Jackson disobeying orders or Lee ignoring Jackson.

Actually, when the pikes were ordered they were necessary. The Confederacy lacked weapons. They lacked rifles. Many volunteers who showed up at Camp Lee (Camp Instruction) or at Harpers Ferry where Jackson was to train them didn't have rifles. The pikes were ordered as defensive weapons. They weren't used because the rifles did come either via running the blockade or through the tremendous amount of guns that Jackson captured as he triumphed through the Valley.

135 posted on 07/12/2004 12:40:50 PM PDT by carton253 (It's time to draw your sword and throw away the scabbard... General TJ Jackson)
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