june said, oh, that the union could find a general as dashing and plucky as this stonewall jackson. one of the favorite court-martials i have ever seen, among the 88,000 court-martials from the war years was a quarter master named simms in the fall of 1862. simms was court marshalled for treason. he said stonewall jackson has whipped us every time we fight him. and for saying such an outrageous thing, he was found guilty and cashiered. a pennsylvanian, june 62, i m sorry to say, i have frequently heard our men talk as though they believe jackson could not be whipped. in fact he has to become what might be called a bugaboo. all of this, attitudes will in the south and the north, where there had been no doubt of success in the north and not much hope for success in the south after henry and donaldson and all of the other problems, is what made jackson what he was in 1862. stonewall jackson s high ranking sub or the nats meanwhile underwent a parallel if not exactly the same me
mexican war. he turned down the field command of the united states army offered by scott through lincoln. but during the first year of the war, he was probably the least influential great man that existed. he raised and equipped and trained virginia troops, but then turned them over to the confederate army and became a general with no soldiers. he was a semiconsultant, and that s my analysis, presided over the loss of the valley of what is now west virginia and some virginians will suggest that wasn t much loss. in any event, he did lose in the first campaign that he oversaw. he commanded the confederate department of south carolina, georgia, and florida. arrived just as the federal army or navy essentially, dupont, captured port royal and secured hilton head so yankees could retire there. and lee himself in analyzing the military circumstance along the atlantic coast decided there was no way to defend the low country, the sea islands, which was, of course, the site of where
yes, sir. there s one more. will you comment on what jackson thought about the jefferson davis during 1862 and possibly vice versa? what thomas jackson thought of jefferson davis in 1862. jackson had a low opinion of davis. there are a number of episodes that make that abundantly clear. jackson s world view was that things were supposed to run according to the manual, and davis not only had accepted way out of channels complaints about jackson during the romney campaign that not only did not go through jackson, which is the way the book s supposed to be, he might have forgiven that, but they went through his superiors and went right straight to the secretary of war, the secular leader of the war effort. and jackson also is said to have been this is not quite so well documented disgusted with davis unwillingness to pursue after first manassas. but there is a documented episode in the aftermath of the seven days when jefferson davis rode down past the battlefields to m
mics on either side. over. you mentioned how for douglass metaphor or the importance of the word was truly important. i d like to know your opinion so that for us in 2012, what do you think of reference to douglass is biracial supposed to black or african-american or perhaps now with by racial, we could say an african-american american? i suppose he would probably appreciate the double hyphen i suppose in some way. well, first of all, his racial identity was very, very much a part of his public persona everywhere he went, both positive and negative, often very negative depending on the audience. he was constantly fending off in his time the charge that his great intelligence, his abilities with words, et cetera, et cetera, must come from his white patrimony and surely not from his slave mother. it s very interesting how douglass treated this question of race. he got deeply interested in ethnography. mr. krick mentioned jackson s interest in phrenology. whoa, douglass go
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