People often attempt to resolve conflicts rooted in history by adopting an attitude of forgetting. For example, Athenians in the fourth century B. Asking Confederate advocates to forget in the name of a greater good does not mean asking them to erase the past. It means inviting them to the work of truth and reconciliation, and foregoing the Lost Cause — a historical mythology that insists the Confederate cause was noble and heroic. Confederate memorials symbolize a form of white supremacy that sought to violently erase the heritage of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendants.
They honor efforts to destroy the history of millions, while celebrating a wildly distorted version of the Confederate past. Forgetting that distorted vision of history would not erase an authentic past.
It might create opportunities for understanding post-Civil War history in more honest and equitable ways. Confederate nostalgia works against the American ethic of renewal and the desperately needed work of truth and reconciliation.
Such work, as in post-apartheid South Africa , includes collective agreements to remember the past differently, resolve historical conflicts, and imagine a new future. Communities can pursue this objective not only by removing monuments.
General Tyler, who had two brigades of Shields's division, made a very stubborn fight, and by 9 o'clock matters began to look very serious for us. Dick Taylor had not yet come down out of the woods on Tyler's left flank. Meanwhile I was having a remarkable time with our mules in the ravine News came up the line from the left that Winder's brigade near the river was giving way.
Jackson rode down in that direction to see what it meant. As he passed on the brink of our ravine, his eye caught the scene, and, reining up a moment, he accosted me with, "Colonel, you seem to have trouble down there. Then he dashed on. He found his old brigade had yielded slightly to overwhelming pressure. Galloping up, he was received with a cheer; and, calling out at the top of his voice, "The 'Stonewall' brigade never retreats; follow me!
Taylor soon made his appearance, and the flank attack settled the work of the day. A wild retreat began. The pursuit was vigorous. No stand was made in the defile. We pursued them eight miles. I rode back with Jackson, and at sunset we were on the battlefield at the Lewis mansion Fremont, hearing the noise of the battle, had hurried out from near Harrisonburg to help Tyler; but Jackson had burnt the bridge at Port Republic, after Ewell had held Fremont in check some time on the west side of the river and escaped, so that when Fremont came in sight of Tyler's battlefield, the latter's troops had been routed and the river could not be crossed.
The next day I returned to Staunton, and found General W. Whiting, my old commander after the fall of General Bee at Bull Run, arriving with a division of troops to reinforce Jackson. Taking him and his staff to my house as guests, General Whiting left soon after breakfast with a guide to call on Jackson at Swift Run Gap, near Port Republic, where he was resting his troops.
The distance from Staunton was about twenty miles, but Whiting returned after midnight. He was in a towering passion, and declared that Jackson had treated him outrageously.
I asked, "How is that possible, General, for he is very polite to every one? But he didn't say one word about his plans. I finally asked him for orders, telling him what troops I had. He simply told me to go back to Staunton, and he would send me orders tomorrow. I haven't the slightest idea what they will be. I believe he hasn't any more sense than my horse. Seeing his frame of mind, and he being a guest in my house, I said little. Just after breakfast, next morning, a courier arrived with a terse order to embark his troops on the railroad trains and move to Gordonsville at once, where he would receive further orders.
This brought on a new explosion of wrath. Why, I just came through Gordonsville day before yesterday. However, he obeyed the order; and when he reached Gordonsville he found Jackson there, and his little Valley army coming after him; a few days later McClellan was astounded to learn that Jackson was on his right flank on the Chickahominy. Shortly after the seven days' battle around Richmond, I met Whiting again, and he then said, "I didn't know Jackson when I was at your house.
I have found out now what his plans were, and they were worthy of a Napoleon. But I still think he ought to have told me his plans; for if he had died McClellan would have captured Richmond. I wouldn't have known what he was driving at, and might have made a mess of it. But I take back all I said about his being a fool. From the date of Jackson's arrival at Staunton till the battle of Port Republic was thirty-five days.
He marched from Staunton to McDowell, 40 miles, from McDowell to Front Royal, about , from Front Royal to Winchester, 20 miles, Winchester to Port Republic, 75 miles, a total of miles, fighting in the meantime 4 desperate battles, and winning them all.
On the 17th of June, leaving only his cavalry, under Brigadier-General B. Robertson, and Chew's battery, and the little force I was enlisting in the valley which was now no longer threatened by the enemy , Jackson moved all his troops south-east, and on the 25th arrived at Ashland, seventeen miles from Richmond. This withdrawal from the valley was so skillfully managed that his absence from the scene of his late triumphs was unsuspected at Washington.
On the contrary, something like a panic prevailed there, and the Government was afraid to permit McDowell to unite his forces with McClellan's lest it should uncover and expose the capital to Jackson's supposed movement on it.
Jackson's military operations were always unexpected and mysterious. In my personal intercourse with him in the early part of the war, before he had become famous, he often said there were two things never to be lost sight of by a military commander: "Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number.
The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.
His celerity of movement was a simple matter. He never broke down his men by too-long-continued marching. He rested the whole column very often, but only for a few minutes at a time.
I remember that he liked to see the men lie down flat on the ground to rest, and would say, "A man rests all over when he lies down. Civil War Primary Source. Jackson was hit by two bullets in his left arm, which was then amputated. Eight days later Jackson died of complications from pneumonia. Revered like General Lee, Jackson had been a rallying force during many major battles; especially the First Battle of Bull Run, where he and his Stonewall Brigade earned him his nickname, Stonewall Jackson.
His death brought deep sadness to the South and created a loss in the Confederate ranks that would never truly be filled. That he was killed in friendly fire instead of by the hands of the North made his death that much worse. His death was a turning point in the war. Chosen for his tactical prowess and bravery, Jackson did not disappoint.
His widely publicized exploits had elevated him to legendary status among Southern soldiers and citizens alike. He frequently punished his officers for relatively minor violations of military discipline and rarely discussed his plans with them. Rather, they were expected to obey his orders without question. Facing a numerically superior Union force of , men to 60, of their own, Lee and Jackson devised and executed a plan to rout the army of Union General Joseph Hooker But the victory was not without cost.
A North Carolina regiment mistook them for enemy cavalry and opened fire, severely wounding Jackson. He was taken from the field and General J. Stuart took over his command. He was transferred to a field hospital at a nearby plantation to recover. Southerners mourned his death, while Lee faced fighting the war without a highly valued general and comrade.
Jackson was buried in Lexington, Virginia. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by , when war broke out between the United States and Britain. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become Rachel Jackson was the wife of U. Army general and President-elect Andrew Jackson, who became the seventh president of the United States — She died less than three months before his inauguration.
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