10 May 1863

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10 May 1863

In memory of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, CSA

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THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON​

by: Henry L. Flash​

Not mid the lightening of the stormy fight,​

Not in the rush upon the vandal foe,​

Did kingly Death, with his resistless might,​

Lay the great leader low.​

His warrior soul it's earthly shackles broke,​

In the full sunshine of a peaceful town;​

When all the storm was hushed, the trust oak​

That propped our cause went down.​

Though his alone the blood that flecked the ground,​

Recording all his grand heroic deeds,​

Freedom herself is writhing with the wound,​

And all the country bleeds.​

He entered not the nation's promised land​

At the red belching of the cannon's mouth,​

But broke the house of bondage with his hand,​

The Moses of the South.​

O gracious God! Not gainless is the loss;​

A glorious sunbeam gilds thy sternest frown;​

And while his country staggers with the cross,​

He rises with the crown.​

"Who could not conquer with such troops as these?"​

~General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson~