Note STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY — Chapter VIII
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Page 483. Stonewall Jackson's Way. "These verses," according to William Gilmore Simms, "were found, stained with blood, in the breast of a dead soldier of the old Stonewall Brigade, after one of Jackson's battles in the Shenandoah Valley." Though widely copied, their authorship remained unknown for nearly a quarter of a century.