" Let us go over and sit in the shade of the trees." - Stonewall Jackson
@melanieliles29238 ай бұрын
That sounds so peaceful ❤
@Chingadera4 ай бұрын
Actually the words are “ let us cross the river and REST in the shade of the trees”.
@georgiapines79064 ай бұрын
I've been pondering this beautiful quote by Gen. Jackson lately, and I truly believe that Gen. Jackson was glimpsing Heaven before him.
@thomashazlewood46583 ай бұрын
@@Chingadera Aye. I think he was reliving one of the vivid days of the war.
@Quinncannon8 ай бұрын
I have thought for sometime that General Jackson was one of the greats and I still do, many of us who have ancestors who fought for the CSA are proud of their service as well. Also, to judge great men by the 20/20 hindsight of today is a disservice to us all.
@AScottB8 ай бұрын
It was traitorous then as now.
@melvinhunt69767 ай бұрын
Absolutely! What if they could judge what we have become? Are we Better?
@johndicks30647 ай бұрын
@@AScottB is Washington DC's lil b$#@
@wayneantoniazzi27067 ай бұрын
@@melvinhunt6976 When I read someone indulging in 'presentism," that is judging those of the past by standards of the present and being rather smug and superior about it all I can think of is: "OK pal, critisise those folks if you want, but you know what? They'd have no use for you either!"
@melvinhunt69767 ай бұрын
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 you totally missed my point! Nobody today should criticize someone and the way they believed, 50/ 100 / 200 years ago!
@KevinCave-rj8eq8 ай бұрын
I did not realize he was that young when he passed on another great story!!!
@davide96588 ай бұрын
The poignant recollection of his loss still resonates to this day. Thank you.
@davidtvedt75978 ай бұрын
I'm often impressed with their mindset when faced with stressful circumstances, including death, with their comments seeming poetic, without fear, but with calm acceptance, and reservation. Amazing!
@markmaki44603 ай бұрын
To be blunt, back then, the individual had not been elevated to the same or greater importance than the Creator, as has been done in the modern world - where the creator is even acknowledged, that is. Resignation and acceptance come naturally when one has humility before The Creator.
@davidtvedt75973 ай бұрын
Agreed, well said!
@michaelwilson99863 ай бұрын
Even today those who are close with The Lord pass along the same .. have witnessed it n felt it.
@davidtvedt75973 ай бұрын
@michaelwilson9986 I agree! The peace that comes over a dying person, in my opinion, is not from this earthly dimension, but a euphoric acceptance, I believe only the Lord can/will provide. In that sense, one can not only be at peace, as embracing everlasting joy goes beyond what we are able to comprehend, but certainly look forward to!
@oldsouthmike654 ай бұрын
Jackson is such an inspiring figure
@donaldswankie40818 ай бұрын
Gen. Jackson had a poor and difficult upbringing as a youth. A spot across a river on his uncle’s farm where he was raised, was a shaded place he would cross over to, to be alone. The great Dr. Robertson who wrote much on Gen Jackson, believed this was where he was headed in his mind as he looked over his life before he passed.
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
I think when he was at West Point, he did the same thing. I think there was a spot, where some cadets would go ...
@georgiapines79064 ай бұрын
Most respectfully, gentlemen, I believe Gen. Jackson was looking into Heaven when he spoke those beautiful words.
@SocratesTheWiseOne-tr3uf4 ай бұрын
It amazes me that white supremacists who treated men like animals thought God was with them, white supremacists think chattel slavery is compatible with Christianity to this day, what a great surprise Jackson got in hell
@dixieleeranch8 ай бұрын
Ron, if he had lived, the war would have turned out differently. Great Man, Great General. Excellent story
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
That's an understatement. Furthermore, if he were in charge, the south would have easily won the war. They still should have. Peninsular Campaign a grievous example. The northern generals were imbeciles.
@natashatomlinson45488 ай бұрын
Nonsense. As Shelby Foote said “ The North fought that War with one hand held behind its back . All it had to do was pull the other one out .”
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
@@natashatomlinson4548 What Shelby Feete said is irrelevant. I think he also said Lincoln was a genius. The north had no business winning that looting expedition. The war should have been over at Peninsula Campaign. Look up the date. Game. Set. Match. Not only that, but Stonewall's plan would have guaranteed victory for the Christians. Only a couple of weeks at most.
@natashatomlinson45488 ай бұрын
@@KennethMachnica-vj3hf 😆😆 So you’re a renowned Civil War scholar now? 😂 Which University do you teach at Professor Sparky ? If nothing else , you have a Ph.D in Delusion that’s for sure . And silly boy , people fighting for human enslavement in no way can be called “ Christians.” You are in a serious level of denial
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
@@natashatomlinson4548 All you have to do is read some books. Of course, you scoff at the notion. BTW, Lincoln was a racist and white supremacist. His main general, Grant , owned slaves with his wife. She used to bring along a couple, to wait on her, when she visited that drunkard at his camps.
@NOC1TIME8 ай бұрын
"You may be whatever you resolve to be" Thomas Johnathan Jackson
@jamesshepherd52468 ай бұрын
May God continue to bless the memory of this noble warrior! We sure need more men like him in this country today!
@ugiswrong7 ай бұрын
God does not exist
@georgiapines79064 ай бұрын
Yes, James! Well said.
@paulnicholson19064 ай бұрын
@@georgiapines7906 Stonewall Jackson was a crazy MF. Admittedly a great general but as Lee and the rest, on the wrong side of history. I grew up in VA and certainly was indoctrinated with the Lost Cause mythology but the south lost, that's why they call it the Lost Cause......
@georgiapines79064 ай бұрын
@@paulnicholson1906 Thank you for sharing your opinion. It is obvious that we shall agree to disagree, Mr. Nicholson, regarding our General Jackson, General Lee, and the South. Respectfully, Georgia.
@paulnicholson19064 ай бұрын
@@georgiapines7906 I wonder what you disagree with? Respectfully of course. I grew up in Winchester, VA. They have separate Confederate and Union cemeteries there. George Patton's uncles are in Mount Hebron I think it is called, the Confederate side. They make it an industry commemorating the war. Changed a lot since I was young since there are a lot more Yankees living there now than then.....
@91Redmist8 ай бұрын
RIP Thomas Jackson. A true gentleman, Christian and military hero.
@robertsullivan47734 ай бұрын
Sorry he was a traitor who probably held slaves.
@walterpittman96944 ай бұрын
Except thou shalt not kill
@robertsullivan47734 ай бұрын
And traitor and slave owner
@mattlevault51408 ай бұрын
Very touching and thoughtfully delivered.
@roberthudson19598 ай бұрын
Those saying that slaveholders could not possibly go to Heaven need to remember two things. First of all, we cannot usurp God's authority by predicting someone else's eternal destination. As God the Son said, "Let the one among you who is without sin cast the first stone." Secondly, slaveholding was extremely common until the 19th century. Even US Grant owned slaves, although they were forced on him by his father-in-law.
@natashatomlinson45488 ай бұрын
People do many things that are not moral. Duh. That doesn’t excuse it.
@roberthudson19598 ай бұрын
@@natashatomlinson4548Your comment doesn't address the first part of my post. Deciding who gets into Heaven is solely up to God, and God's standards are different from ours. That said, the Bible condones both child marriage and slavery, which we find abhorrent. The likelihood is that future Christians will condemn at least one thing that we consider moral, which highlights the problem with judging the actions of historical figures by our current standards.
@michaelgentry4027 ай бұрын
Everyone sins. even you - arrogant a$$. @@natashatomlinson4548
@docowen42377 ай бұрын
As the only slaves that Gen. Lee "owned" were the ones his wife inherited from her father. They could have turned them loose to fend for themselves. How compassionate would that have been?
@fsabot190224 ай бұрын
I’m an atheist so I don’t believe in that stuff but if you betray our nation to protect slavery you are not a good person. His morals were selfish. He’s an interesting person for sure but you can learn more about being a better person by not following him. He was a person of ridge belief and could never learn or change.
@garybryson19008 ай бұрын
I greatly admire General Jackson for his faith and his bravery. I look forward to meeting him in Heaven when I pass from this world.
@BELCAN578 ай бұрын
Death and matters of Faith were not foreign to Civil War wars folk. Many people, no matter their station attended services and read Scripture faithfully. Passing over was considered the next step in their life's journey.
@justusU8 ай бұрын
Stonewall Jackson is in my family lines through my mother. He was a brother to my grandmother's grandfather. I cannot recall the direct relationship that put Stonewall to me. The Jacksons had tall people and there is a famous bed that was made about Stonewall's time that some distant relative has. It's story included how the bed came to be made because of the height of it's owner. From pictures I have seen of Stonewall, he, himself was tall also. I would love to know more about that line of the family.
@QED_7 ай бұрын
I asked a friend about this, since I wasn't confident about the answer. If it was your grandmother's brother, he'd be your grand-uncle. If it was your grandmother's father's brother, he'd be your great-grand-uncle. Since it was your grandmother's father's father's brother, he is your *great-great-grand-uncle.* I think that's right now . . .
@justusU7 ай бұрын
@@QED_ Thank you!
@historylover16797 ай бұрын
Last time I was at his gravesite I saw that someone still puts a small basket of lemons near his monument! Love Stonewall Jackson and know he is with his Savior today!
@deckerbob8 ай бұрын
Well crafted summary of Stonewalls passing👍
@andreamarin42962 ай бұрын
Love learning tidbits like this. Didn’t know his wife wrote a book. Thank you. Such rich history.
@robertblair35933 ай бұрын
The soldiers look so much older than what their ages were during those times back in 1863
@dadsongs8 ай бұрын
Nicely done.
@markmcintosh70953 ай бұрын
Outstanding channel. Thank you
@TreeOfWisdom28 ай бұрын
"He fell from the litter while being removed from the field and struck the right side of his chest on a large stone or stump, which caused a pulmonary contusion. The physicians believed that it was in this bruised lung that his pneumonia developed." So his fellow Confederates killed him twice, in a way.
@FuzzyWuzzy758 ай бұрын
He was thrown from his stretcher not once but twice as he was being carried from the field. The first time, one of the stretcher bearers got his leg tangled in some vines and tripped. From my understanding, that was probably not the fall that did the real damage, though. The second fall was a little bit later when an artillery shell struck close by killing one of the stretcher bearers, and that one was a much more violent fall. I had not heard about the stump or the rock but could believe that. I have been under the impression that if a modern autopsy been possible, it would likely be discovered that he had a broken rib and very possibly a punctured lung, most likely resulting from that second fall. But you may be correct in your assessment.
@TreeOfWisdom28 ай бұрын
@@FuzzyWuzzy75 and a legend was woven around what could be a story of betrayal, or at least carelessness. In the same manner as many Confederate troops did not know Jeff Davis' wife was essentially Black (Creole). Or that Judah P. Benjamin''s wife was Creole.
@FuzzyWuzzy758 ай бұрын
@TreeOfWisdom2 I have heard the claims of carelessness and betrayal about the death of Stonewall Jackson. There are claims that there were special forces operatives in Confederate uniforms that shot Stonewall Jackson. Some people just can't or refuse to accept the official story in their minds. There always has to be more to the story than what they are told, some grand conspiracy, perhaps? I don't know about any of that, and it is all really inconsequential at this point anyway, just like my theory about the broken rib and punctured lung is. But what I do know for a fact is that there was a major battle taking place. It was starting to get dark, there were dense woods all around and the battle lines between retreating Yankees and attacking Rebels were scattered and confused. The Confederates may have won the battle, but they paid a terrible price for the victory at Chancelorsville. There were a lot of scared, confused, and disoriented soldiers with guns in their hands and itchy trigger figures all about. The story goes that the men who fired on Stonewall Jackson and his staff were Confederates from North Carolina (my home state) and they believed that Jackson and his staff were Union Cavalry and there for they open fired. I personally don't see any reason to believe that there was much more to it than that. But I could be wrong.
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
@@TreeOfWisdom2Or that General Grant owned slaves with his wife. They were loving life. Those were good times.
@TreeOfWisdom28 ай бұрын
@@KennethMachnica-vj3hf in the United States of Lies and Deceit slavery is illegal, but unpaid labor is not. One big lie, that's what USA stands for.
@robrussell53298 ай бұрын
I read his biography. His week of recuperating is well documented. As I recall, while recuperating, he never once asked about the outcome of the battle or the condition of his troops. I always thought was odd.
@jackmoorehead20368 ай бұрын
Shelby Foote called Jackson "a Cold Blue Eyed Killer."
@TJoePeter7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, Stonewall was injured by his own soldiers. If he’d come across Union troops, they’d likely had missed.
@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd7 ай бұрын
I hereby resolve to stay out of YT comments sections. The ability to think critically is fast disappearing.
@dennismorgan23037 ай бұрын
HEY ,you were broken up a little there at the end...
@marjorjorietillman8563 ай бұрын
Everybody talking about heaven ain’t going there!
@mwblackbelt8 ай бұрын
I wouldn't presume to tell someone they were dying. Not my call
@kerrydennehy78114 ай бұрын
Distill it.This guy talks too much
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf8 ай бұрын
The Yankees used to steal the southerner's silverware and use it at their camps. They saved money, that way. Then they wouldn't have to buy their own ! You have to hand it to them, that was a good idea ! I wont even mention the wedding rings.....lol
@michaelgentry4027 ай бұрын
So, you think that's funny?
@KennethMachnica-vj3hf7 ай бұрын
@@michaelgentry402 Not if it was mine. That's called sarcasm. You have to spread the word. Otherwise, they start injecting that 'slavery' nonsense. Something about freeing slaves...
@geraldwestphipps7648 ай бұрын
Each of the names of those surrounding this lithograph, Calhoun, Lee even Washington smacks of irreligious oppression and an arrogant and abominable suggestion that they are superior to other men based upon their race. If these reprobate slavers were his heroe''s, Heaven was certainly not his final destination. This war was not about state's rights. It was about a state declaring it had the right to hold human beings in bondage and as property no less like a mule, or dog or a horse or a cow. BRAVERY? The sheer idea that this was bravery is galactically repugnant. Still today, there are those unethical immoral souls who wish for plantation days that they bathe in the words, FORGOTTEN GLORY. If he had lived and had his way, humanity would be a much more miserable place for all who would after hence be born SLAVES; each state bearing the ungodly inference that God was on their side.
@pathamm58348 ай бұрын
It was a different time and all races , nationalities have been slaves since the beginning of mankind…. May I remind you the first slave owner in America was a black man who paid others to bring slaves from Africa….check your history. You have served in the USMC , were you not treated equally ????
@natashatomlinson45488 ай бұрын
@@pathamm5834Yours is rationalizing nonsense .
@hokehinson59878 ай бұрын
The mass media first monopolized news papers, then radio & T.V. owners print & say what they want to increase subscription. Many an owner has a hidden agenda. Studying history is not the act of being told what is right or reading what is presented. It is detective work. Copious amounts of research from all contributions that record THEIR perceptions of events. After shuffling thru myriad accounts its the students responsibility to arrive at conclusion. This result of this act of conclusion is many times filtered thru the students own cultural indoctrination, thru their own perceptions created by their own Ego. Many times truth is deeply buried due to all the above. Especially when money is involved. History is written by the victorious and in the digital age is revealing how the victorious construct histories that favor the future regimes! Stay awake! Be alert to yourself and to your environment. Peace.
@geraldwestphipps7648 ай бұрын
No I was not treated equally as a Marine Sir. I was told by my Platoon leader if it was up to him, there would be no Black leaders in the Marines@@pathamm5834
@geraldwestphipps7648 ай бұрын
I understand that most civilizations have held slaves...but FREEDOM has never come for the American of color. The fact that you don't even understand that fact demonstrates your own callous indifference and your desire to maintain privilege status. No Black man EVER started the Ku Klux Klan or signed Jim Crow Laws into affect, or continued the societal discriminations that presently exist in America that produce Ghetto's and drug abuse and target populations for prison in impoverished neighborhoods intentionally. @@pathamm5834
@johnlysic67278 ай бұрын
I find it so interesting that these people who literally fought for the right to subjugate and horrifically abuse other people with no remorse, actually believed they were going to be accepted into the “pearly gates of heaven”. Quite the opposite of what must surely have occurred. ‘Dude, you beat, tormented, and enslaved people for personal $ profit - No, that does not put you in good favor with the Creator of All people (dumbass)”
@rickcoffey53098 ай бұрын
You are one sick puppy
@johnschuh86168 ай бұрын
You make too much of black slavery, Reflect a little about, for instance, Irish miners working in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, virtual prisoners of their company who virtually robbed them of most of their small wages.by making them take script and spend it in the company store. Life is hard and men are often uncaring of others.
@billlawrence18998 ай бұрын
It's been recorded that as slave owners go, ( Jackson had 4 ) he was notably easy on his slaves. It's reported that one black man asked Jackson to "bye" him to avoid being sold some place away from where he considered home. I think it's Jackson being a cold blooded, remouresless killer that may compromise his chances of getting in that good place.
@barrygrant29078 ай бұрын
It was the world as it was at that time. One cannot translate today onto yesterday.
@natashatomlinson45488 ай бұрын
@@barrygrant2907Yes one most certainly can - especially when it comes to human chattel slavery .It’s both amazing and disgusting that someone has to point this out to you .
@douglawyer518 ай бұрын
He was fighting for the practice of enslaving human beings. They seemed pretty sure of their afterlife destination for supporting a rebellion and such an unChristian and inhumane scourge. Smacks of arrogance to me.
@jamesstrachan74177 ай бұрын
Might be a good idea you read a little history, might learn something.
@JimbobZ177 ай бұрын
If you want a clear & honest view on slavery read this book. Jefferson Davis High Road to Emancipation And Constitutional Government By James Ronald Kennedy Walter Donald Kennedy
@West-TexX7 ай бұрын
Yeah, because slavery never existed except in the American South. -_-
@docowen42377 ай бұрын
No, he wasn't. He was defending his home from invasion. What would you have done? Rolled over?
@JimbobZ177 ай бұрын
@@docowen4237 I’m afraid people have been lied to so long they will never believe the truth. Or study for themselves and learn the truth about southern history.