STONEWALL JACKSON AT THE AGE OF 24 (FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE.)

Maps: 

The city of Mexico.

The united states, 1861.

Situation, night of July 17, 1861.

Dispositions, morning of July 21, 1861.

Bull run.

Sketch of west Virginia in 1861.

The valley.

Situation, night of march 21, 1862.

Battle of Kernstown.

Situation, April 30, 1862.

Battle of M’DOWELL.

Situation, may 18, 1862.

Battle of Winchester.

Battles of cross Keys and port republic.

Virginia and Maryland.
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STONEWALL JACKSON AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

Volume 1.

CHAPTER 1.1.  WEST POINT.

In the first quarter of the century, on the hills which stand above the Ohio River, but in different States of the Union, were born two children, destined, to all appearance, to lives of narrow interests and thankless toil.  They were the sons of poor parents, without influence or expectations; their native villages, deep in the solitudes of the West, and remote from the promise and possibilities of great cities, offered no road to fortune.  In the days before the railway, escape from the wilderness, except for those with long purses, was very difficult; and for those who remained, if their means were small, the farm and the store were the only occupations.  But a farmer without capital was little better than a hired hand; trade was confined to the petty dealings of a country market; and although thrift and energy, even under such depressing conditions, might eventually win a competence, the most ardent ambition could hardly hope for more.  Never was an obscure existence more irretrievably marked out than for these children of the Ohio; and yet, before either had grown grey, the names of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and of Stonewall Jackson, Lieutenant-General in the Confederate Army, were household words in both America and Europe.  Descendants of the pioneers, those hardy borderers, half soldiers and half farmers, who held and reclaimed, through long years of Indian warfare, the valleys and prairies of the West, they inherited the best attributes of a frank and valiant race.  Simple yet wise, strong yet gentle, they were gifted with all the qualities which make leaders of men.  Actuated by the highest principles, they both ennobled the cause for which