not only necessary that the South should abandon its arms, but abandon also all enmity and negative position, and accept with cheerful alacrity the changes of the time. It was mainly from unselfish considerations such as these, and yet with much of that natural elasticity with which the true hero rises from misfortune and takes up the broken thread of his life, that Gen. Lee resolved to emerge from retirement and qualify himself for whatever active employment the broken fortunes of the South might now bestow upon him.

It has been well remarked since the war that the truest Confederate, the man who now gives the best proofs of wisdom and affection for the land he loves, is not he who disputes and disparages the restored Federal authority, or resents the results of the war by private violence, or shows an unjust temper to the unoffending negro. The standard of Southern patriotism is now quite to the contrary. He comes best up to it, who gave his whole heart and soul to the cause when the war prevailed; who fought, and would willingly have died for it; but who, having surrendered, observes with a scrupulous and knightly fidelity all its terms and conditions, and all the obligations implied by the oaths he took; who keeps the peace, aims at the repose and welfare of his people, and, by example and influence, endeavours so to shape the Southern conduct, as to leave the North no excuse for the further exclusion of the South from her proper place in the Union. Such a model Southern man, such a true Confederate, was Gen. Lee.

federate States, or in any military capacity whatever, against the United States of America, or render aid to the enemies of the latter, until properly exchanged in such manner as shall be mutually approved by the relative authorities.

The above-named officers will not be disturbed by United States authorities as long as they observe their parole and the laws in force where they may reside.

GEO. H. SHARPE,

General, and Assistant Provost-Marshal.

In August, 1865, he was offered the Presidency of Washington College, at Lexington. Here was the home of his great and beloved lieutenant, Stonewall Jackson; here an institution of learning had been planted under the gifts and auspices of George Washington; and in these pleasing and appropriate associations Gen. Lee undertook a task which was not unbecoming, to which his nature was not foreign, and to which his personal example gave assistance and dignity. Having qualified himself by taking the "amnesty oath," he was installed with interesting ceremonies on the 2d October, 1865. In his letter accepting the appointment, he wrote: "It is the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony, and in no way to oppose the policy of the State or General Government directed to that object; and it is particularly incumbent on those charged with the instruction of the young to set an example of submission to authority."

LIEUT.-GEN. STONEWALL JACKSON.

CHAPTER XV.

Boyhood of Thomas Jonathan Jackson. His experience at West Point.-His studies and habits.—A novel analysis of awkward manners.-Jackson's promotions in the Mexican War.-His love of fight.-Recollections of "Fool Tom Jackson" at Lexington.-A study of his face and character.-His prayers for "the Union.”—A reflection on Christian influences in America.-Jackson appointed a colonel in the Virginia forces.-In command at Harper's Ferry.-Constitution of the "Stonewall Brigade."-Jackson promoted to Brigadier.-His action on the field of Manassas. He turns the enemy's flank and breaks his centre.-How much of the victory was due him.--His expedition towards the head waters of the Potomac.

THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON was born at Clarksburg, in Harrison county, Virginia, in 1824. He came of a Scotch-Irish family that had settled in Virginia in 1748; and a perhaps fanciful relation has been traced between his ancestral stock and that of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. In 1827, he was left one of three penniless orphans; his father, Jonathan Jackson, a lawyer of moderate repute, and a man of social and facile temper, having wrecked a good estate by an imprudent and irregular life. The early life of the orphan was harsh and erratic. He found shelter with one or another of his relatives, until at last he obtained a pleasant home and countenance in the house of an uncle, Cummins Jackson, residing in Lewis county. Here he remained until he was sixteen years old. The early adversity and buffet of his life appear to have inspired the boy with singular determination; and among the first signs of character we find in him is a sensitive ambition reflecting painfully on his dependence on his relatives, and coupled with the resolution to reinstate himself in the ranks of his kindred, and rise from the position to which orphanage and destitution had thrust him.