As has been said, his fortune was gone, and it was necessary for him to earn a living.  The opportunity soon came in the offer of the presidency of Washington College, at Lexington, where the remainder of his days were spent in honored quiet.  Those five years of warfare, with their hardships and exposures, had brought on rheumatism of the heart, and the end came on October 12, 1870.  He died dreaming of battle, and his last words were, “Tell Hill he must come up!”

Next to Lee in the hearts of the Southern soldiers was Thomas Jonathan Jackson, better known by the sobriquet of “Stonewall,” which General Bee gave him during the first battle of Bull Run.  Driven back by the Union onset, the Confederate left had retreated a mile or more, when it reached the plateau where Jackson and his brigade were stationed.  The brigade never wavered, but stood fast and held the position.

“See there!” shouted General Bee, “Jackson is standing like a stone wall.  Rally on the Virginians!”

Rally they did, and Jackson was ever thereafter known as “Stonewall.”

It was a good name, as representing not only his qualities of physical courage, but also his qualities of moral courage.  There was something rock-like and immovable about him, even in his everyday affairs, and so “Stonewall” he remained.

In some respects Stonewall Jackson was the most remarkable man whom the war made famous.  A graduate of West Point, he had served through the Mexican war, and then, finding the army not to his liking, had resigned from the service to accept a professorship at the Virginia Military Institute.  He made few friends, for he was of a silent and reserved disposition, and besides, he conducted a Sunday school for colored children.  It is a fact worth noting that neither of the two great leaders of the Confederate armies believed in slavery, the one thing which they were fighting to defend.  So Jackson’s neighbors merely thought him queer, and left him to himself; certainly, none suspected that he was a genius.

Yet a genius he was, and proved it.  Enlisting as soon as the war began, and distinguishing himself, as we have seen, by holding back the Union charge at Bull Run, he was made a major-general after that battle, and a year later probably saved Richmond from capture by preventing the armies of Banks and McDowell from operating with McClellan, making one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war, overwhelming both his antagonists, and, leaving them stunned behind him, hastening to Richmond to assist Lee, arriving just in time to turn the tide of battle at Gaines Mills.

As soon as McClellan had been beaten back from Richmond, Jackson returned to the Shenandoah valley, defeated Banks at Cedar Run, seized Pope’s depot at Manassas, and held him on the ground until Lee came up, when Pope was defeated at the second battle of Bull Run.  Two weeks later, Jackson captured Harper’s Ferry, with thirteen thousand prisoners, seventy cannon, and a great quantity of stores; commanded the left wing of the Confederate army at Antietam, against which the corps of Hooker, Mansfield and Sumner hurled themselves in vain; and at Fredericksburg commanded the right wing, which repelled the attack of Franklin’s division.