On last Saturday our God again crowned our arms with
victory, about six miles from Culpepper Court-House. I can hardly think of the
fall of Brigadier-General C. S. Winder without tearful eyes. Let us all unite
more earnestly in imploring God's aid in fighting our battles for us. The
thought that there are so many of God's people praying for His blessing upon
the army greatly strengthens and encourages me. The Lord has answered their
prayers, and my trust is in Him, that He will continue to do so. If God be for
us, who can be against us? That He will still be with us and give us victory
until our independence shall be established, and that He will make our nation
that people whose God is the Lord, is my earnest and oft-repeated prayer. While
we attach so much importance to being free from temporal bondage, we must
attach far more to being free from the bondage of sin.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 326
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