General Jackson is doing so gloriously in the Valley that we
must not let the fate of the “Virginia” depress us too much. On the 9th of May
he telegraphed to General Cooper: “God blessed our arms with victory at McDowell yesterday.” Nothing more has been given us officially, but private
information is received that he is in hot pursuit down the Valley. The croakers
roll their gloomy eyes, and say, “Ah, General Jackson is so rash!” and a lady
even assured me that he was known to be crazy when under excitement, and that
we had every thing to fear from the campaign he was now beginning in the
Valley. I would that every officer and soldier in the Southern army was crazed
in the same way; how soon we would be free from despotism and invasion!
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 112
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