Stonewall Jackson Quotes

It's the state of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. That is our heritage. It is what makes us Virginia.

— Corey Stewart

“Let your words be as few as will express the sense you wish to convey and above all let what you say…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Over my dead body when I'm governor of Virginia are we ever going to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee…

— Corey Stewart

“I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece…

— Jarod Kintz

“ The Baptists gave the South Billy Graham and Stonewall Jackson. The Methodists gave the South Martin Luther King, Jr. (Not that…

— Deborah Ford

During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall…

— Tony Horwitz

“War. In 1901, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, where he marched before Stonewall Jackson’s widow. He soon joined the Army,…

— Thomas E. Ricks

“Not far away lay the big cannons that had held Ulysses Grant at bay for fifty siege days while the citizens of…

— Greg Iles

“The American Civil War lays out the stark contrast: the greatest generals in war are often abundant failures during peacetime, and vice…

— Nassir Ghaemi

“General Banks saw that Jackson meant business, and so recalled General Williams’ brigade that was en route to Centreville. The rebels suffered…

— Charles River Editors

“Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find,…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Let’s be honest, Mr. Ravenwood. You have no place in this town. You are not part of it and clearly, neither is…

— Kami Garcia

“Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by…

— James A. Michener

“After being wounded and carried behind the lines on the night of May 2, Stonewall Jackson had his arm amputated, after which…

— Charles River Editors