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RL Dabney, Chaplain and Chief of Staff to Stonewall Jackson: 'True courage is not the brutal daring which is intoxicated by animal passion, or by sensual allurements; nor the sullen fortitude of despair; nor the reckless hardihood of the adventurer; it is that calm, self-collected valor, which, while it sees the whole magnitude of its peril, is true to its convictions of duty, and strong in its trust in God.” (p. 5) ... “Our dead hero is God’s sermon to us. His embodied admonition, His incorporate discourse, to inculcate upon us the virtues with which he was adorned by the Holy Ghost; and especially those traits of the citizen, the Christian, and the soldier, now most essential to the times.” (p. 7) ... “The man who fears God, and loves His law, is free indeed; free from all other fear, because his soul is fortified by the assurance, that the almighty and omniscient God, is his friend.” (p. 10) ... “By that almighty and omniscient providence, all events are either produced; or at least permitted, limited, and overruled. There is no creature so great, that it can shield the man who is abandoned by God’s providence; and none so feeble, that it can really injure the man, who is shielded by His love.” (p. 12) ... “Let us resolve that as the solemn mountain peaks keep their everlasting watch around the home and the tomb of Jackson, even so immovably will we guard the rights for which he died.” (p. 25) ... “On hearing this [praise from General Lee], he was deeply affected by the generous tribute of his chief, but humbly remarked, that the glory of the victory was due to God alone.” (p. 30) True Courage: A Discourse Commemorative of Lieut. General Thomas J. Jackson (1863) by RL Dabney https://static1.squarespace.com/static/590be125ff7c502a07752a5b/t/5afde7c76d2a73b115fe3ef5/1526589384430/Dabney%2C+Robert+Lewis%2C+True+Courage+A+Discourse+Commemorative+of+Lieut.+Gen.+Thomas+J.+Jackson.pdf