Stonewall Jackson

"Jackson at the VMI Archives"

"My dear pastor, in my tent last night, after a fatiguing day's service, I remembered that I failed to send a contribution for our colored Sunday school. Enclosed you will find a check for that object,…"

"Through the broad extent of country over which you have marched by your respect for the rights and property of citizens, you have shown that you were soldiers not only to defend but able and willing t…"

"The Institute will be heard from today."

"My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!"

"Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time."

"I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it."

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."