"It cannot well be denied that Jackson possessed every... attribute which makes for success in war. Morally and physically he was... fearless. He accepted responsibility with the same equanimity that he faced... bullets... He permitted no obstacle to turn him aside from his appointed path... [F]rom the day he first smelt powder in Mexico until he led that astonishing charge through the dark depths of the Wilderness his spirits never rose higher than when danger and death were rife about him. With all his gentleness there was much of the old about Stonewall Jackson, not indeed the lust for blood, but the longing to do doughtily and die bravely, as best becomes a man."