Friday, August 1, 2014

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, November 17, 1862

November 17th.

I am more concerned again about clothing, especially shoes and blankets, than I expected to be, from what I heard. Colonel Boteler is doing much, and has been the means of greatly contributing to the comfort of our men.  . . . Our gracious Heavenly Father strikingly manifests his kindness to me by disposing people to bestow presents upon me.

. . . And so God, my exceeding great joy, is continually showering His blessings upon me, an unworthy creature.

SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 365-6

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