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WBTS & historical musings, wandering thoughts, book comments, and an occasional rant from the backroads and byways of Old Virginia from Civil War author Richard G. Williams, Jr - one of the few remaining men who has actually lived in Virginia all his life. :)

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Name: Richard G. Williams, Jr.
Location: Shenandoah Valley, US

"From Virginia sprung the Southern Mind, a mind which favoured the local community, Burkean conservatism, the folkways of ancestors, an unwavering orthodox Christian faith." ~ Alphonse Vinh

16 April 2007

Another Positive Review

Harry W. Crocker, III who is Executive Editor at Regnery Publishing and the award winning author of Don't Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting and Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision, recently reviewed my book, Stonewall Jackson ~ The Black Man’s Friend.

From Mr. Crocker's Review:

“Another hero is to be found in Richard Williams’s excellent, gracefully written study of Stonewall Jackson’s religious faith and its role in guiding him to help teach black Southerners to read and learn the Gospels. Williams’s research is meticulous—praised by no less than Jackson’s esteemed biographer James I. Robertson, who contributes a foreword—and shines new light on ‘Old Blue Light’ himself, with a special focus on Jackson’s ‘relationship with his black brethren,’ which ‘was, in many ways, illustrative of Southern Christians’ bond with one another—regardless of race.’ The story, to my knowledge, has never been told so well or in such detail.”

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