Excerpt from Stonewall Jackson; Address of Colonel R. P
We are here today to witness the unveiling of a monument to commemorate the great character and deeds of General Thomas Jonathan Jackson. The Board of Visitors having charge of these ceremonies have done me a great honor by inviting me to deliver the address upon this occasion. Had this Board consulted my wishes, someone else more capable would have been selected to perform this difficult task. When we come to talk of Stonewall Jackson, we treat of a character as remarkable as any in all history. As the war progressed, in the short period of two years, this great soldier advanced to the front rank of the great captains of modern times, and after his death was esteemed by competent military authorities in England, one of the five greatest Generals of the English speaking race, Wellington, Washington, Lee, Jackson. I know how impossible it would be for me to say anything that would add to his fame or reputation, and I will therefore confine myself to the impressions I formed of his character and habits as they appeared to me when I knew him as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and during the war, when I followed him, especially through the famous Valley campaign. It was not my good fortune to know him in his family circle, but I met him frequently at headquarters, and upon a number of occasions upon the battlefield. As a second classman at the Institute, I recited to him for seven months and had the opportunity, like all other of his pupils to observe the manners and habits of this great man.
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