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"As I stand by the little grave, and think of the poor ruined clay within, that was a few days ago so beautiful, my heart bleeds. But I ask, ‘where is the soul whose beams gave that clay all its beauty and preciousness?’ I triumph. Has it not already begun, with an infant voice, the praises of my Savior?’ Perhaps one of the loving angels has bore his spirit and has been teaching and training him to heavenly manhood... He is in Christ’s heavenly house and under his guardian love. Now I feel, as never before, the blessedness of the redeeming grace and divine blood, which have ransomed my poor babe from all the sin and death he inherited through me." -R. L. Dabney on the death of his son. He lost three of his six sons. Dabney was a Presbyterian Pastor and theologian, Confederate army chaplain, architect from Virginia, chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson.