Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson foi um militar americano, mais conhecido como um dos principais oficiais das forças armadas Confederadas durante a Guerra da Secessão e um dos colaboradores mais próximos de Robert E. Lee. Sua carreira militar inclui a Campanha do Vale de 1862 e seu serviço como comandante de corpo do Exército da Virgínia do Norte sob comando do general Lee. Soldados confederados o atingiram acidentalmente durante a Batalha de Chancellorsville em 2 de maio de 1863. Três balas atingiram Jackson: duas nas mãos e uma no braço esquerdo, entre o ombro e o cotovelo. Os ferimentos lhe causaram o amputamento do braço esquerdo. Dias depois, as 3:15 da tarde do dia 10 de maio de 1863, ele veio a falecer vítima de complicações de uma pneumonia. Sua morte foi um golpe duro para a Confederação afetando o moral do exército e o povo sulista. Atualmente é um dos grandes pilares do panteão da ideia da "Causa Perdida".
Foi considerado um dos mais brilhantes generais táticos da história dos Estados Unidos. Seu exemplar comando na Primeira Batalha de Bull Run onde se manteve firme como uma parede de pedras lhe rendeu o famoso apelido "stonewall". Se destacou igualmente em outras batalhas como na Batalha de Cedar Mountain, a Segunda Batalha de Bull Run, a Batalha de Antietam e a Batalha de Fredericksburg. Contudo, em algumas lutas, seu comando não teve grande destaque como nas Batalhas dos Sete Dias ao redor de Richmond em 1862.
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“Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!”
Reply to Colonel Barnard E. Bee when he reported that the enemy were beating them back. At the First Battle of Bull Run (21 July 1861); as quoted in Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander (2000) by John Selby, p. 21
“Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off unnecessary actions.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“Speak but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Letter to his wife after the First Battle of Bull Run (22 July 1861); as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson (1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2vg5cH004C, Ch. XI : The First Battle of Manassas, p. 178
“Never speak disrespectfully of anyone without a cause.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it.”
As quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 171
“Easy, Mr. Pendleton. Easy. Good to have your dander up, but it’s discipline that wins the day.”
These were lines in the film Gods And Generals (2003); they are not actual quotations of Jackson.
Misattributed
“Nothing justifies profanity.”
A wounded Jackson said to Captain John Imboden, after First Manassas (The Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations, 2006)
“Be content and resigned to God's will.”
Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife (8 May 1861)
Misattributed
“Let your conduct towards men have some uniformity.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
Fonte: Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1891), Ch. 4 : The War with Mexico — 1846 - 1848, p. 45
Q him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow…
Fonte: As quoted in The Civil War : An Illustrated History (1990) by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, and Ric Burns, p. 272
“Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; waste nothing.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!”
Statement to Major Heros von Borcke http://aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1082 (13 December 1862), as quoted in Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (1867) by Heros von Borcke, p. 301; this has been paraphrased as "My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!"
“Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.”
Last words (May 10, 1863); as quoted in "Stonewall Jackson's Last Days" by Joe D. Haines, Jr. in America's Civil War
“Disregard public opinion when it interferes with your duty.”
Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“Who could not conquer with such troops as these?”
Remark to his staff (25 August 1862), as quoted in Life of Lieut. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson) (1866) by Robert Lewis Dabney, p. 266
“The Institute will be heard from today.”
An incorrect version of this quote, "the Virginia Military Institute will be heard from today" is carved on the base of a statue of Jackson at VMI according to VMI.edu
Q him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow…
Fonte: Referring to the number of Virginia Military Institute alumni and former students among his officers; to Colonel Thomas T. Munford at the Battle of Chancellorsville (2 May 1863), as quoted in Chancellorsville (1996) by Stephen W. Sears, p. 242
Letter to his wife from Mt. Jackson after the First Battle of Kernstown (24 March 1862), as quoted in Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson) (1866) by Robert Lewis Dabney, p. 329
As quoted in Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1904) by George Francis Robert Henderson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12233, Ch. 25 : The Soldier and the Man, p. 481
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As quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1884 - 1888) edited by Robert Underwood Clarence C. Buel, Vol. II, p. 297
Q him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow…]]
To Col. Sam Fulkerson, who reported on the weariness of their troops and suggested that they should be given an hour or so to rest from a forced march in the night. (24 May 1862); as quoted in Mighty Stonewall (1957) by Frank E. Vandiver, p. 250
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Comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson (1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2vg5cH004C, Ch. IX : War Clouds — 1860 - 1861, p. 141; This has sometimes been paraphrased as "War is the sum of all evils." Before Jackson's application of the term "The sum of all evils" to war, it had also been applied to slavery by abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay in The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay : Including Speeches and Addresses (1848), p. 445; to death by Georg Christian Knapp in Lectures on Christian Theology (1845), p. 404; and it had also been used, apparently in relation to arroganceus hours I received only one wound, the breaking of the longest finger of my left hand; but the doctor says the finger may be saved. It was broken about midway between the hand and knuckle, the ball passing on the side next to the forefinger. Had it struck the centre, I should have lost the finger. My horse was wounded, but not killed. Your coat got an ugly wound near the hip, but my servant, who is very handy, has so far repaired it that it doesn't show very much. My preservation was entirely due, as was the glorious victory, to our God, to whom be all the honor, praise, and glory. The battle was the hardest that I have ever been in, but not near so hot in its fire.
Letter to his wife after the First Battle of Bull Run (22 July 1861); as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson (1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2vg5cH004C, Ch. XI : The First Battle of Manassas, p. 178
Q him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow…]]
Fonte: Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (1891), Ch. 22 : The Last Happy Days — Chancellorsville — 1863, p. 429
Although under a heavy fire for several continuous hours I received only one wound, the breaking of the longest finger of my left hand; but the doctor says the finger may be saved. It was broken about midway between the hand and knuckle, the ball passing on the side next to the forefinger. Had it struck the centre, I should have lost the finger. My horse was wounded, but not killed. Your coat got an ugly wound near the hip, but my servant, who is very handy, has so far repaired it that it doesn't show very much. My preservation was entirely due, as was the glorious victory, to our God, to whom be all the honor, praise, and glory. The battle was the hardest that I have ever been in, but not near so hot in its fire.
Letter to his wife after the First Battle of Bull Run (22 July 1861); as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna Jackson (1895) http://books.google.com/books?id=bG2vg5cH004C, Ch. XI : The First Battle of Manassas, p. 178
