(A later British visitor, a member of the House of Commons, said Jackson was the best-informed military man he met in America.3) This was not because Jackson’s manner had changed—one of the reporters present recalled him as courteous but somewhat distant and reserved—but his presence clearly had.4 Jackson was still Jackson, and dressed like Jackson. But Wolseley, the soldier’s soldier, believed himself to be in the company of a brilliant and fully formed leader of men.
