The Romney Expedition by John Paul Strain Price: $900.00 |
| Title:
The Romney
Expedition Western Virginia, January 1862 Artist: John Paul Strain Image Size: 26 3/4" x 20" Overall Size: 31 1/4" x 24" 1500 s/n Limited Edition 150 s/n Artist Proofs |
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| They picked their way through the
high country
of western Virginia, led by General Thomas J. Jackson. Just a
year
earlier, he was an obscure mathematics professor at V.M.I.,
jokingly
called "Tom Fool" Jackson by his students. Now he was the famous
"Stonewall" Jackson, hero of First Manassas and defender of the
Shenandoah
Valley. On this winter expedition, designed to destroy a
concentration
of Federal forces near Romney, Virginia, he would battle the enemy, the
weather and problems within his own command. Heavy snow and ice
posed
a severe challenge on this expedition, but Jackson and his Stonewall
Brigade
persevered. What lay ahead - after difficulties and defeats - was the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. It would be a campaign ranked by historians to come as among "the most brilliant in history," and it would give Stonewall Jackson almost legendary stature. "He lives by the New Testament and fights by the Old," historian Douglas Southall Freeman would later note. "A man he is of contrast so complete that he appears one day a Presbyterian deacon who delights in theological discussion and, the next, a [modern day] Joshua." Striking were the contrasts of his life at war. A humble, gentle, and compassionate husband and father, when summoned to fight he was a ferocious, relentless and remarkably successful warrior. Always, he was devout, disciplined and devoted to duty. "Through life," he once advised, "let your principle object be the discharge of duty." Before another winter would cloak Virginia's highlands, Stonewall Jackson would rank among the great military leaders of history. |
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