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conduct, was promoted brigadier-general, and in command 

 of cavalry took part in all the various movements of Gen 

 erals Hardee, Polk, and Joe Johnston, commanding the 

 cavalry on the left wing in the memorable Georgia 

 campaign. 



HIS PART IN THE WAE. 



General Jackson is a true gentleman, urbane, self sacrific 

 ing, and forbearing to his fellows. He is also a strict dis 

 ciplinarian, and his command was noted for their dash and 

 daring in the field. While in battle he was ever foremost, 

 his high natural sense of honor, intensified by his early 

 associations and military training, ever led him to exercise a 

 chivalrous forbearance and clemency to those whom the fate 

 of war threw into his power. 



While engaged in the service of the South, from what to 

 him seemed an imperative duty, he exercised no feeling 

 of personal hostility to the people of the North, to whom he 

 accorded the same sense of right to battle for principle as he 

 claimed for himself. If all had been actuated by the same 

 humane feelings, how much bitterness would have been 

 smoothed over, and how much misery and suffering would 

 have been obviated. His strong personal attachment to his 

 many old chums in the Federal army, perhaps, aided his 

 strong sense in conducting his share of the struggle upon 

 principles of civilized usage, and with as little severity and 

 harshness as possible. 



Among the services performed, was his engagement with 

 the dashing Kilpatrick, at Lovejoys Station, leading with 

 Forrest the Confederate advance into Tennessee, and cover 

 ing the retreat of Hood. For this he was recommended 

 for promotion to a division, and was assigned to the com- 



