STONEWALL JACKSON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I venture to point out a slight error of detail which has crept into your otherwise admirable survey of Jackson's career in the Spectator of November 15th ? I quote from your review :—" It is not too much to say that a thorough knowledge of military history is nine-tenths of the art of generalship Lee's greatest mistake and Jack- son's only failure, the faulty co-operation of the Seven Days, might have been avoided had the former remembered how Eylau was lost and Koniggriitz won." Now the Seven Days' conflict on the Chickahominy took place between he dates June 25th—July 1st, 1862. In May, 1865, the war was over. The battle of Koniggratz was fought on July 3rd, 1866. However just your criticism may be in regard to Eylau, neither Jackson nor Lee can be blamed for neglecting to take to heart the lessons of a conflict which was yet to come. Might it not be said, also, that the battles of Bull Run at the end of August, 1862, prove that the two generals knew how to co-operate, and were fully alive to the value of a turning
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