Transcriber’s Note: New original cover art included with this eBook isgranted to the public domain.
TROTWOOD’S MONTHLY
| VOL. II. | NASHVILLE, TENN., MAY, 1906. | NO. 2 |
Contents
| HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF THE SOUTH | John Trotwood Moore |
| MIKE KELLEY | Ben McCulloch Hord |
| CROP RESIDUE AND ITS BENEFIT TO THE SOIL | William Dennison |
| ALFALFA-GROWING IN THE SOUTH | Joseph E. Wing |
| HOW OLD WASH DIED | John Trotwood Moore |
| THE GHOST, CASSANDRA | Madison Sheppard |
| HISTORY OF THE HALS | John Trotwood Moore |
| WITH TROTWOOD | |
| TROTWOOD’S TRAVELS | |
| FLORENCE, ALABAMA |
Copyright 1906 by Trotwood Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Entered as second class
matter Sept. 8, 1905, at the Postoffice at Nashville, Tenn., under the
Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
The verdict of another century is sureto crystallize in the now growing beliefthat the two greatest military geniusesof the first century of the Republicwere both named Jackson—Andrew andStonewall.
The battles of all other commanders—theslow, ponderous, red-tape, unimaginativestands and retreats of Washington;the stubborn, mathematical defenses ofthe perfectly poised Lee; the ponderoushammerings of the stoical, machine-madeGrant—all these were generals after arule and a school. But the two Jacksonswere a law unto themselves. They werecomets among fixed stars, meteors in astill heaven. After the frightful holocaustsof the Civil War, everything beforeit looks small.
But there are tragedies, even in anant hill, and the life of the Republic camenearer going out in the wilderness of 1815than at Bull Run, Shiloh or Gettysburg,fifty years later.
As the fighting savior of his country,posterity is ultimately bound to rank Jacksonahead of Washington; for Jackson finishedthe War of Independen