Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — A Great Sleeper. [ARTICLE]

A Great Sleeper.

Stonewall Jackson slept a great deal, though the men of his command believed that he never took repose. Whenever he had nothing else to do he slept, especially in church. Ho could sleep anywhere and iu any position, on a chair, under tiro, or on horseback. During a night-march toward Richmond, after the battles with McClellan, writes Col. Kyd Douglas, in the Pennsylvania Times, “ lie was riding along with his drowsy staff, nodding and sleeping as he went. We passed by groups of men sitting along the roadside, , and engaged in roasting new corn bj> tires made of fencerails. One group took ns for cavalrymen,with an inebriated Captain, and one of the party, delighted at the sight of a man who had found whisky enough to be drunk, sprung up from tlie fire and, brandishing a roasting-ear in his hand, leaped down into the road and, seizing the General’s horse, cried out, ‘ I say, old fellow, where the devil did you get your liquor?’ In an instant, as the General awoke, the fellow saw his mistake ; and then, bounding from tho road, he took the fence at a single leap, exclaiming, ‘ Good God, it’s old Jack hand disappeared in the darkness.”