1862 Valley Campaign Quotes

“Stonewall Jackson was master of all he surveyed. Two Union forces were withdrawing from his front. There was a certain beautiful symmetry to it. The campaign, which started with a single enemy army pursuing Jackson southward through the valley, would end with two beaten Union armies withdrawing from him in a northerly direction. A week later, Jackson advised his mapmaker, Hotchkiss, to 'never take counsel of your fears.' A person who followed such advice would be doomed to a short life.”
― S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

“Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson. •”
― S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson