Jacksonian Wisdom...

“Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.”

“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... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.”

“Who could conquer not with such troops as these?”

“My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!”

“Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!” (Stonewall Jackson's reply to Colonel B.E. Bee when he reported that the enemy was beating them back. At the first battle of Manassas, July 1861)

“You may be whatever you resolve to be” From Jackson's Personal Journal)

“I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go.” (General Jackson on his Death Bed)

“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees . . .” Last words