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Excerpt from Stonewall Jackson a Thesaurus of Anecdotes of and Incidents in the Life of Lieut.: General Jonathan Jakson
But when he began to ask me which side of certain creeks were the highest, and whether there was not a 'blind road, ' turning off at this point or that, and showed the most perfect familiarity with the country, and the roads, I had to interrupt him by saying: 'excuse me, General, I thought I knew not only every road, but every footpath in that region, but I find that you really know more about them than I do, and I can give you no information that would be valuable to you. Chaplain J. L. Jones, C. S. A., South. Hist. Mag., Vol. 35, p. 91.
Jackson's Tactics. He mystified and deceived his enemy by concealment from his own generals and his own staff. We were led to believe things very far from his purpose. Major Hotchkiss, his topo graphical engineer, told me that the General would for hours study the map in one direction, and would at daylight move in the Opposite direction. - James Power Smith, a member of his stafi', in a lecture.
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