"Our parson is not afraid of Yankee bullets, and I tell you he preaches like hell." Colonel Grigsby of the Stonewall Brigade concerning Robert L. Dabney

True to the Constitution and its doctrine of the Sovereignty of States, he enlisted in the Confederate Army as chaplain, and became General “Stonewall” Jackson’s Chief of Staff. More than once he distinguished himself for coolness and courage, and near Port Republic in the Valley campaign his prompt action averted disaster from the army, for which his modesty alone prevented him from receiving the credit he deserved.”

"It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right." — Robert Lewis Dabney