Excerpt from Character of Stonewall Jackson Marshal Ney's case is a little better. His impulses were good, and we can sympathize with him because he had none of that cold, calculating hard-heartedness that characterized Marlborough. But Ney was a traitor, and though his character may be white-washed with rhetoric, yet the dark color is plainly visible under the white wash. After swearing allegiance to the Bourbons, he started out from the Tuileries declaring that he would bring back the ex-emperor in an iron cage. As soon as he got to camp he issued a proclamation calling on the troops to desert the Bourbons and mount the tri-color cockade. Marlborough, as Alison says, betrayed the trust reposed in him by his old master and tried benefactor, to range himself under the banner of a competitor for the throne, to whom he was bound neither by duty nor obligation. Ney abandoned the trust reposed in him by a new master, forced upon an unwilling nation, to rejoin his-old benefactor and companion-in-arms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.