For Stonewall

Happy Birthday to Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General and R. E. Lee's right hand man. Without him the South was doomed to failure. But as Stonewall would have said, "It was all in God's good providence."

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me...That is the way all men should live, and then all men would be equally brave.