# Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson

## Metadata
- Author: [[Mary Anna Jackson]]
- Full Title: Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Thus the warriors who once “to battle rode” at the head of hostile armies, now fall into line in the great procession to that realm of silence in which all enmities are buried. ([Location 85](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07Z9PMZNJ&location=85))
- Besides, the four years of our Civil War were in some respects the grandest since the nation was born. Awful, terrible, it is true, but magnificent and sublime. Then for the first time the American people learned what stuff they were made of. For the development of character those four years were better than a hundred years of unbroken prosperity. ([Location 96](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07Z9PMZNJ&location=96))
- A nation’s life is counted not by years, but by generations. A generation that was distinguished by its wars is followed by one that is devoted to the arts of peace; and sons may be proud of the deeds of their fathers, and yet not think it a part of loyalty to keep alive their hatreds. ([Location 103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07Z9PMZNJ&location=103))
- A thunderbolt in war, he was in society so modest and unassuming as to appear even shy and timid. A character in which such contradictions are combined is one of the most fascinating studies to be found in American history. ([Location 116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07Z9PMZNJ&location=116))
- While the battle raged he sat on his horse unmoved in the very front of danger; but when the crisis was past, and he could be spared from the field, even though the thunders were still rolling in the distance, he rode back with the tension of his mind relaxed, and entering his tent, “shut to the door,” and calmed his spirit in the presence of God. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07Z9PMZNJ&location=140))