APPENDIX. * r in a “ ] artisan,” even in the political sense of that word, for he was by no means a Secessionist in his convictions or his sympathies, and only joined the southern forces in the field, as 1 have been informed upon very respectable authority, from a religious sense of duty to his native State. I do not know that it is a greater stretch of charity to concede the possible existence of an honest “ rebel ” than of an honest atheist, and if Stonewall Jackson may be supposed to be honest, he belongs to the not inconsiderable class of men in the South who would draw the sword at the behest of their State as readily against the government of Jefferson Davis as against that of Abraham Lincoln. A partisan, in the military sense, Jackson has never been. He was graduated at West Point with the class of 1812, served with distinction in Mexico, and holds the rank of MajorGeneral in the regular army of the “ Confederate States.” The partisan service has not been popular in the South, and most of those leaders who won their first spurs as partisans in Kentucky and Virginia have passed into the regular service as fast as they could find or make room for themselves. Turner Ashby was a confederate brigadier when he fell in battle, and John Morgan now holds that rank, his second in command being an experienced English officer, Colonel George St. Leger Grenfell, who resigned his Queen’s commission and left a lucrative post in India, came from Calcutta to Havana, and “ ran the blockade ” into Charleston to put his sword at the service of the South. Note H.—Page 6S, McDowell’s recall from Fredericksburg. The failure of the armies of McDowell and McClellan to unite before Richmond surprised the confederate commanders in the latter city more, I think, than any one incident of the war. They had endeavored, of course, to bring it about
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