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- Sep 3, 2014
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- Center Valley, PA
Yes, it is a fact, and it is also a fact that he was leading a volunteer army that was undisciplined and had never experienced the hardships of war. His treatment might seem harsh on the face of it, but men at war must be molded to deny themselves and virtuously all else for the good of the service. Jackson would have experienced such molding during his professional military training; the men he had to lead had to get a crash course in such discipline. By no stretch of the imagination was he a horrible human being or a hypocrite.
If one treats themselves better than his soldiers, uses different measures to judge himself and his subordinates, and uses a higher power to justify it to boot, in my book he is a horrible human being and a hypocrite.
In my book, leaders lead by example. He never did. He never held himself to the same standard as a subordinate to his leaders, than he held his subordinates in relation to him. It was ok for him to disregard direct orders, but not for his subordinates to even act and show initiative without consulting him, even if he did not give them any orders.
Calling him a hypocrite, might be just a bit too lenient methinks...