the chorus of praise that greeted him. On the contrary, he modestly
disclaimed the honors from the very first and insisted that to
Jackson belonged the credit of the day. "Could I have directed
events," he wrote the wounded General, "I should have chosen to have
been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you on the victory
which is due to your skill and energy." Indeed, when the news
first reached him that Jackson's left arm had been amputated, he
sent him a cheery message, saying, "You are better off than I am,
for while you have only lost your LEFT, I have lost my RIGHT arm."
And when, at last, he learned that "Stonewall" had passed away,
he no longer thought of the victory but only of his dead comrade
and friend. "Any victory would be dear at such a price," was his
sorrowful comment on the day.

Jackson was indeed Lee's "right arm" and his place among the great
captains of the world is well indicated by the fact that a study
of his campaign is to-day part of the education of all English
and American officers. Nevertheless, it was unquestionably Lee's
genius that enabled his great Lieutenant to accomplish what he did,
and this Jackson himself fully realized. "Better that ten Jacksons
should fall than one Lee," was his response to his commander's
generous words.

But though Lee had won an international reputation, anyone seeing
him in the field among his soldiers might well have imagined that
he was wholly unaware that the world was ringing with his fame. He
steadily declined all offers to provide comfortable quarters for
his accommodation, preferring to live in a simple tent and share
with his men the discomforts of the field. Indeed, his thoughts
were constantly of others, never of himself, and when gifts of fruit