men to advance. They remained under cover, afraid to venture. Seeing this, Jackson advanced to the road and calmly walking up and down among the plunging shot and shell, called out coolly: "Come on-this is nothing; you see they can't hurt me." This coolness on the battle-field did not desert him in afterlife, and during the war he inspired his troops with the same indomitable courage and bravery. All who had ever been under his command would not hesitate to follow wherever he led.

From an early period in the rebellion he had looked upon the invasion of the North as one of the surest means of ending the war, and long before General Lee invaded Maryland Jackson seems to have formed a similar plan even with the handful of troops he then had under his command. It is said that when the Potomac was finally crossed in August, 1862, General Jackson halted his command in the middle of the river and took off his hat while his bands played "Maryland, my Maryland." While in that State, on one occasion the ladies crowded around him and cut every button from his coat. He remarked: "Ladies, this is the first time I was ever surrounded."

Colonel Ford, a Federal officer who was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry, relates the following anecdote: "An orderly rode up while we were conversing, and said to Jackson: 'I am ordered by General McLaws to report to you that McClel lan is within six miles with an immense army.' Jackson asked: 'Has General McClellan any baggage-train or drove of cattle?' The reply was that he had. Jackson remarked that he could whip any army that was followed by a drove of cattle, alluding to the hungry condition of his men."

He was exceedingly modest. The publishers of a Southern illustrated journal wrote to him, requesting his daguerreotype for an engraving and some notes of his battles for a biographical sketch. He wrote in reply that he had no picture of himself and had never done any thing.

General Jackson wore a sun-browned coat of gray cloth, cavalry boots reaching to the knee, and his head was covered by a cap much faded, which tilted so far over his forehead that he was compelled to raise his chin in the air in order to look under the rim. His horse was an old raw-boned sorrel, who calmly moved about like his master, careless of cannon-ball or bullet in the hottest moments of battle.

In action Jackson was often impetuous. It is stated that at the battle of Cedar Run his command was pressed by superior numbers so that it was forced back and the day seemed lost. Galloping to the front amidst the terrible fire, he personally rallied his troops, and by his voice and example induced them to re-form. When this was accomplished he gave the order to charge, when, as if inspired by his presence, they obeyed and speedily regained the ground they had lost.

General Jackson was a hard student. At West-Point his lessons were learned only after the utmost mental labor, and few there considered him a bright scholar. He graduated, however, far above many whose tasks had been more easily learned and who it was thought would distance him in the contest for the prize at examination.

When he was a Professor at the Virginia Military Institute he was a martinet in the performance of his duties, and the pupils were led to regard him as a most unreasonable and exacting stickler for useless military etiquette and ceremony. He once continued to wear a thick woolen uniform late in the summer, and when asked by the professors why he did so, replied that he had seen an order prescribing that dress, but none had been exhibited to him directing it to be changed.

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