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24 The Green Caldron
Chancellorsville was a great victory; but at what a price! At this battle
the star of the Confederacy was at its peak; from now on the road led
downward.
Lee said of mighty Stonewall, "Such an executive officer the sun never
shone on ... . He
has lost his left arm ; but I have lost my right arm." ^^
Two months after Qiancellorsville Lee met the Army of the Potomac at
Gettysburg. Lee despaired over the loss of his "right arm." He said, "If
I had had Jackson at Gettysburg, I should have won that battle, and a
complete victory there would have resulted in the establishment of the inde-
pendence of the South." ^°
Lee fought on, and fought well, for two long years, but it was noticed
that he ventured upon no strokes of audacity after Jackson had passed away.^^
A clergyman expressed the feelings of the South as he closed a prayer
with these words : "When in Thy inscrutable wisdom O Lord, Thou didst
ordain that the Confederacy should fall, then didst Thou find it necessary
to remove Thy servant, Stonewall Jackson. Amen." ^^
FOOTNOTES
^ Quoted in Henry Kyd Douglas, I Rode With Stonezvall, p. 233.
^ F. B. M., "Thomas Jonathan Jackson," Encyclopaedia Britannica (1957), 12:854.
"Stonewall" is a curiously misleading name for one who proved to be such a fast, aggres-
sive soldier.
'George F. R. Henderson, Stonczvall Jackson and the American Civil War, I; 416.
*/&/J., pp. 417-18.
' Ihid., p. 427.
'/b/if., p. 441.
^ John Warwick Daniel, The Character of Stonezvall Jackson, p. 50.
* Anonymous, "They Fought For Freedom," Scholastic, 44:2 (March 6, 1944).
* Quoted in Daniel, p. 15.
" Douglas, p. 235.
" Daniel, p. 13.
" Evelyn Sager, "Sword and Bible Generals," New York Times Magazine, p. 36 (July
30, 1944).
" R. L. Dabney, Life and Campaigns of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, p. 654.
" Burke Davis, They Called Him Stonezvall, p. 13.
" Alary Anna Jackson, Memoirs of Stonezvall Jackson by His Widozju, p. 405.
" Quoted in Frank E, Vandiver, Mighty Stonezvall, p. 462.
" Ibid., p. 457.
"Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, II; 533.
" Vandiver, p. 460.
^ Davis, p. 407.
^ Freeman, p. 540.
"^Ibid., p. 541.
^ Vandiver, p. 467.
" Ibid., p. 468.
== Ibid.
'" Ibid.
^ Ibid.
^ Dabney, p. 508.
'^ Freeman, p. 552.