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Updated: June 7, 2025

Pope was destined to make Jackson's acquaintance speedily and rather unceremoniously, for Jackson was ill-mannered enough, instead of passing in his card at Pope's front door, as etiquette required, to present it at the kitchen-gate. Pope should have volted and struck Jackson like lightning before the rest of Lee's army could come up; but two considerations made him slow.

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 : American Leaders