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Title: Wearing of the gray; being personal portraits, scenes and adventures of the war
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: New York, E.B. Treat & Co. Baltimore, J.S. Morrow, (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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moved by anger, everserious and devout as was Jackson ? By such a process theactual characters disappear; the real men, with faults and vir-tues, grand traits and foibles, become mere lay-figures to hanguniforms upon. The pictures should either be made likenesses,or not be painted; events should be represented in their realcolours, or not at all. These few words will explain the character of the sketcheshere presented, and the theory upon which the writer has pro-ceeded in drawing them. They are conscientious studies, andthe result of an honest desire to elucidate the characters of theirsubjects, who are here described in rapid outline as they livedand moved before all eyes upon the stage of the war. Eulogy xvi INTRODUCTION. has not magnified them, as partisan rancour has not blackenedtheir adversaries. They appeared as they are here drawn to theeyes of the writer; if the portraits are unfaithful, it is not be-cause lie lacked the fairness, but wanted the ability, to denotethem truly.
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WEARIIG OF THE GRAY. i. STUART. Stuart, chief of the Confederate cavalry in Virginia, was oneof the Dii Majores of the recent conflict—his career rather apage from romance than a chapter of history. Everythingstirring, brilliant, and picturesque, seemed to centre in him.There was about the man a flavour of chivalry and adventurewhich made him more like a knight of the middle age than asoldier of the prosaic nineteenth century, and it was less thescience than the poetry of war which he summed up and illus-trated in his character and career. With the majority of those who took part in it, the late revo-lution was a hard and bitter struggle, which they entered uponresolutely, but with unconcealed distaste. To this soldier, how-ever, it seemed to be a splendid and exciting game, in which hisblood coursed joyously, and his immensely strong physical or-ganization found an arena for the display of all its faculties.The affluent life of the man craved those perils and hardshipswhich flush twearingofgray00cook

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