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Stonewall Jackson
Age: 39 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 21
Died: 1863
Died: May 10
Military Commander
Military Leader
Slaveholder
Teacher
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Resolve
Whatever
May

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Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.
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We are all but instruments of God.
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Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
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My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!
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What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.
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We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
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My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.
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Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
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Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!
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All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.
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I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
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Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
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I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
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