'Jackson's Death Shook Confederacy to Core'
He got the name "Stonewall" ("There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Let us rally on the Virginians"--Confederate Gen. Barnard E. Bee) at First Manassas on July 21, 1861, in the first major battle of the Civil War.
by John Williamson Palmer
by Ruth Clifford
"What is life without
honour ? Degradation is worse than death. We must think of the living and of
those who are to come after us, and see that by God's blessing we transmit to
them the freedom we have ourselves inherited."
Lt.General Thomas J. Jackson , Aug.2 1862 , to
an officer who requested leave to see a dying family member.
The above quote of the most revered Lt General Thomas J Jackson was posted on the SCV dispatch by Joseph Alarid, a member of the Deaderick -Doremus-Thurmond SCV Camp 1631 in Santa Barbara ,CA