"THOMAS JONATHAN “STONEWALL” JACKSON is an enigma, or so it would seem to our shallow culture—a culture that attempts to pigeonhole everyone into predetermined categories of religion, race, social status, and politics. But Jackson does not fit neatly into modernity’s superficial typecasting. Tom Jackson was the poor, orphaned young mountain boy who would, by sheer determination, graduate from West Point; the shy, backward, stammering young man who would become an influential speaker, educator, and leader in Lexington; the strict Calvinist deacon who questioned predestination; the fearless Confederate general who would weep over one of his slaves’ deaths; the slave owner who would risk criminal prosecution and societal ridicule by teaching slaves and free blacks to read and to seek the same Savior who had redeemed his own soul." ~
Stonewall Jackson - The Black Man's Friend, page 161. (Image of Jackson as he appeared in 1855, the same year he began his now famous "colored Sabbath-school.")
"THOMAS JONATHAN “STONEWALL” JACKSON is an enigma, or so it would seem to our shallow culture—a culture that attempts to pigeonhole everyone into predetermined categories of religion, race, social status, and politics. But Jackson does not fit neatly into modernity’s superficial typecasting. Tom Jackson was the poor, orphaned young mountain boy who would, by sheer determination, graduate from West Point; the shy, backward, stammering young man who would become an influential speaker, educator, and leader in Lexington; the strict Calvinist deacon who questioned predestination; the fearless Confederate general who would weep over one of his slaves’ deaths; the slave owner who would risk criminal prosecution and societal ridicule by teaching slaves and free blacks to read and to seek the same Savior who had redeemed his own soul." ~ Stonewall Jackson - The Black Man's Friend, page 161. (Image of Jackson as he appeared in 1855, the same year he began his now famous "colored Sabbath-school.")
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