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Stonewall Jackson

VMI Test Case for the Country

By Forrest L. Marion

In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) removed its statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from its prominent position at the nation’s oldest state-supported four-year military… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Forrest Marion
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Stonewall Jackson

Virginia and Alabama

By Thomas Hubert

Lexington, Virginia January 2002 Driving up, then down the mountain hairpins into Lexington,By daylight, moonlight, headlight (only one),I smell the moist ancient earth rising up to greet meThis January evening that seems almost like spring.Incredible!… »

  • John Pelham
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Literature
  • Southern Poetry
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Thomas Hubert
  • War for Southern Independence

As Luck Would Have It

By John Marquardt

The tiny hamlet of Lake Hill in New York State’s Catskill Mountains was my mother’s hometown, and her ancestors there, the Howlands, could trace their family history to its roots in Fifteenth Century England and… »

  • John Marquardt
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William Jordan Luck

Standing Like a Stone Wall

By Paul H. Yarbrough

The City Council of Lexington, Virginia has renamed the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. The new name is Oak Grove Cemetery. The reasons stated were the usual ones. Jackson was a racist who fought for slavery. I… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Chuck Smith
  • Paul Yarbrough
  • Political Correctness
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Virginia
  • Yankees

Charge! and Remember Jackson

By Neil Kumar

Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon of the War for Southern Independence. He was the archetypal Christian soldier; there is infinite wisdom to be gleaned from… »

  • Neil Kumar
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • War for Southern Independence

“Chesty” Puller and the Southern Military Tradition

By Michael Martin

Lewis Burwell Puller is a Marine Corps legend and American hero. Nicknamed “Chesty” for his burly physique, he was one of the most combat-hardened leaders in military history and saw action in Haiti, Nicaragua, WWII,… »

  • Chesty Puller
  • Michael Martin
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Military Tradition
  • Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall: By Name and Nature

By Holmes Alexander

Stonewall lay dying of his wounds at Chancellorsville — “the most successful movement of my life,” he murmured, and then remembered to give full credit to God. “I feel His hand led me.” He had… »

  • Holmes Alexander
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • War for Southern Independence

Grant Never Faced Stonewall Jackson

By Bernard Thuersam

Grant’s relentless and costly attacks on General Lee in Virginia earned him the title of “Butcher” among his own troops and was kept in command by Lincoln who was unbothered by the vast casualty numbers… »

  • Bernard Thuersam
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Ulysses S. Grant

Baltimore Set to Ban Lee and Jackson, to Welcome Degenerate Divine

By J.L. Bennett

    As Baltimore is preparing to honor a coprophagic crossdresser, the city’s double-equestrian Lee-Jackson monument is coming down.  Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who presided over and encouraged the riots following the death of Freddie Gray… »

  • Joyce Bennett
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Stonewall Jackson

Podcast Episode 10

By Brion McClanahan

The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 18-22, 2016. Topics: Political Correctness, Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Podcast
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Stonewall Jackson

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