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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.14 (search)
Stonewall Jackson at prayer.
[from the Louisville courier-journal, October 19, 1891.]
Probably there was never a more impressive tribute paid to Christianity than that by General John Echols in his Stonewall Jackson Address last Tuesday evening before the Confederate Association of Kentucky. Bishop Dudley, Bishop Penick, Dr. Broadus, Dr. Jones, the Rev. J. G. Minnigerode, and other ministers of the gospel in the great audience were visibly affected when, after the thrilling recital of General Jackson's matchless movements in the Valley of Virginia, throughout the forty days during which he marched four hundred miles, fought five pitched battles, defeated five great generals, captured four thousand prisoners, and closed the war in the Shenandoah Valley for months, General Echols, referring to the death of Ashby and the tender emotion exhibited by Stonewall Jackson, paused, and speaking of frequent prayer as a characteristic of Jackson, said slowly:
There is a weakness among