Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

The battlefield fell quiet once again. Hood and McLaws rode forward to report to Jackson and the three men sat for a while in silence looking out over the grounds of the church and onto the cornfield. Standing on any corner of the 30 acres a man could walk to the corner opposite without touching the earth for stepping on the bodies of the dead and the wounded. So thick was the carnage that the field itself seemed to move, and groan, and plead for help.
Stonewall Jackson looked over the field where 12,000 men lay and he took a bite from his peach and to Lafayette McLaws he said, “God has been very kind to us this day.”

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