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Duty is ours the consequences are the Lord God's

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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
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War
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Duty

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All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.
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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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Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
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Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!
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Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...
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Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
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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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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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I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
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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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There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.
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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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He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.
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