“Let
us cross over the river, and rest in the shade of the trees.”
~ Stonewall Jackson
~ 1824-1863
The last words of Thomas Jonathan
“Stonewall” Jackson, who served as a Confederate general (1861-1863) during the
Civil War, and became arguably the best-known Confederate commander after
General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military
engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, and had an
important part in winning many significant battles.
A
Great Blue Heron peers through the marsh in the still beauty of a southern fall
morning in the Lowcountry just before the fog burns off along the Colleton
River in Beaufort County, South Carolina on the first day of November in Dixie.