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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Orations at the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, Richmond, Va., October 26th, 1875. (search)
ther and hold your ground. These were the elements which shaped Jackson's distinctive characteristics as a soldier and commander which mayd in a moment fell dead with his face to the foe. From that time, Jackson's was known as the Stonewall Brigade—a name henceforth immortal, aion had been irradiated by the lustre of but the two names—Lee and Jackson—it would still have illumined one of the brightest pages in histornary stars in the firmament above us. It was in the noontide of Jackson's glory that he fell; but what a pall of darkness suddenly shroudever fluttered from the height it was intended to grace. It became Jackson's winding-sheet. Oh! mournful prophecy of the fate of the Confede a nation's grief, as was embodied in the old mutilated veteran of Jackson's division, who, as the shades of evening fell, and when the hour which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety. And last it is Jackson's clear ringing tone to which we listen: What is life without h<