I congratulate you on your recent victory at McDowell. I
request you to unite with me this morning in thanksgiving to Almighty God for
thus having crowned your arms with success, and in praying that He will
continue to lead you on from victory to victory, until our independence shall
be established, and make us that people whose God is the Lord. The chaplains
will hold divine service at ten o'clock a.m. this day in their respective
regiments.
SOURCES: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 258; Clement A. Evans, Confederate Military History, Volume 3:
Virginia, Part 1, p. 234; Owen F. Morton, A
History of Highland County, Virginia, p. 131; Sarah Nicholas Randolph, The Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, p.
140; Carl Hovey, Stonewall Jackson,
p. 63; Thomas A. Ashby, Life of Turner
Ashby, p. 162; Confederate Veteran,
Volume 20 No. 5, May 1912, p. 219-20; Henry Alexander White, Stonewall Jackson, p. 141 and William
Allen, History of the Campaign of Gen. T.
J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley: From November 4, 1861 to June
17, 1862, p. 82 both of which site Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J.
Jackson,, p. 353 as their source.
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