. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . From this humble grave on thegreen Virginia hillside, Jack-son rises before the Americanpeople as one of the mightiestfigures of a mighty he died on May 10,1863, in the little town ofGuineys Station, not far fromthe battlefield of Chancellors-ville, his remains were takento Richmond. In the Hall ofRepresentatives the body layin state while the sorrowingthrongs passed by the opencoffin in silence. In the Mil-itary Institute at Lexington,which Jackson had left twoyears before as an obscure pro-fessor, the remains of the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . From this humble grave on thegreen Virginia hillside, Jack-son rises before the Americanpeople as one of the mightiestfigures of a mighty he died on May 10,1863, in the little town ofGuineys Station, not far fromthe battlefield of Chancellors-ville, his remains were takento Richmond. In the Hall ofRepresentatives the body layin state while the sorrowingthrongs passed by the opencoffin in silence. In the Mil-itary Institute at Lexington,which Jackson had left twoyears before as an obscure pro-fessor, the remains of the illus-trious leader were under thecharge of the cadets, until hisburial in the quiet cemeteryabove the town. The pure. STONEWALL JACKSON still shine the words that miniature his deeds* and noble words of Lanier needno comment. A few lines froman Englishman, Colonel G. Henderson, declare Jack-sons life a message not forAmerica alone. The herowho lies buried at Lexington,in the Valley of Virginia, be-longs to a race that is not con-fined to a single continent; andto those who speak the sametongue, and in whose veinsthe same blood flows, hiswords come home like an echoof all that is noblest in theirhistory: What is life withouthonor? Degradation is worsethan death. We must thinkof the living and of those whoare to come after us, and seethat by God s blessing wetransmit to them the freedomwe have ourselves inherited
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