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I want my army to be an army of the living God.

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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
Army
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War

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Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.
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Duty is ours consequences are God's.
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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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Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished
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My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!
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Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
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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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