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Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam (
/ænˈtiːtəm/) also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties on both sides.
After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. Attacks and counterattacks swept across Miller's cornfield and fighting swirled around the Dunker Church. Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate center, but the Federal advantage was not followed up. In the afternoon, Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's corps entered the action, capturing a stone bridge over Antietam Creek and advancing against the Confederate right. At a crucial moment, Confederate Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill's division arrived from Harpers Ferry and launched a surprise counterattack, driving back Burnside and ending the battle. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire force, while McClellan sent in less than three-quarters of his army, enabling Lee to fight the Federals to a standstill. During the night, both armies consolidated their lines. In spite of crippling casualties, Lee continued to skirmish with McClellan throughout September 18, while removing his battered army south of the Potomac River.
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Battle of Chantilly
The Battle of Chantilly (or Ox Hill, the Confederate name) took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's corps of the Army of Northern Virginia attempted to cut off the line of retreat of the Union Army of Virginia but was attacked by two Union divisions. During the ensuing battle, both Union division commanders were killed but the Union attack halted Jackson's advance.
Defeated in the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, Union Maj. Gen. John Pope ordered his Army of Virginia to retreat to Centreville. The movement began after dark, with Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell's III Corps providing cover. The army crossed Bull Run and the last troops across, Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel's I Corps, destroyed Stone Bridge behind them. Gen. Robert E. Lee decided not to press the advantage gained that day, largely because he knew his Army of Northern Virginia was exhausted from two weeks of nearly constant marching and nearly three days of battle, so the Union retreat went unmolested. Lee's decision also allowed the Army of Virginia's II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, to consolidate with the bulk of Pope's army, marching in from Bristoe Station, where they had been guarding the army's trains. More importantly, Lee's decision bought time for the Union to push to the front the Army of the Potomac's II, V, and VI Corps, which had been brought from the Peninsula and—much to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's dismay—placed under Pope's command.
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Battle of Cross Keys
The Battle of Cross Keys was fought on June 8, 1862, in Rockingham County, Virginia, as part of Confederate Army Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War. Together, the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic the following day were the decisive victories in Jackson's Valley Campaign, forcing the Union armies to retreat and leaving Jackson free to reinforce Gen. Robert E. Lee for the Seven Days Battles outside Richmond, Virginia.
The hamlet of Port Republic, Virginia, lies on a neck of land between the North and South Rivers, which conjoin to form the South Fork Shenandoah River. On June 6–7, 1862, Jackson's army, numbering about 16,000, bivouacked north of Port Republic, Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division along the banks of Mill Creek near Goods Mill, and Brig. Gen. Charles S. Winder's division on the north bank of North River near the bridge. The 15th Alabama Infantry regiment was left to block the roads at Union Church. Jackson's headquarters were in Madison Hall at Port Republic. The army trains were parked nearby.
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg (local
i/ˈɡɛtɨsbɜrɡ/, with an /s/ sound), was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.
After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North—the Gettysburg Campaign. With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.
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Battle of McDowell
The Battle of McDowell, also known as Sitlington's Hill, was fought May 8, 1862, in Highland County, Virginia, as part of Confederate Army Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War. It followed Jackson's tactical defeat, but strategic victory, at the First Battle of Kernstown.
Jackson's columns departed West View and Staunton, Virginia, on the morning of May 7, marching west along the Parkersburg turnpike. Elements of Brig. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's brigade composed the vanguard. At mid-afternoon, Union pickets were encountered at Rodgers' tollgate, where the pike crosses Ramsey's Draft. The Union force, which consisted of portions of three regiments (3rd West Virginia, 32nd Ohio, and 75th Ohio) under overall command of Brig. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, withdrew hastily, abandoning their baggage at the tollgate and retreating to the crest of Shenandoah Mountain.
The Confederate force split into two columns to envelope the Union holding position on Shenandoah Mountain. Milroy ordered his force to withdraw and concentrate at McDowell, where he hoped to receive reinforcements. Milroy also positioned a section of artillery on Shaw's Ridge to impede Johnson's descent from the crest of Shenandoah Mountain. These guns were soon withdrawn with their supports to McDowell. By dusk, Johnson's advance regiments reached Shaw's Fork, where they encamped. Because of the narrow roads and few camp sites, Jackson's army was stretched 8–10 miles back along the pike with its rear guard at Dry Branch Gap. Jackson established his headquarters at Rodgers's tollgate. During the night, Milroy withdrew behind the Bullpasture River to McDowell, establishing headquarters in the Hull House.
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Cemetery Hill
Cemetery Hill is a landform on the Gettysburg Battlefield that was the scene of fighting each day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863). The northernmost part of the Army of the Potomac defensive "fish-hook" line, the hill is gently sloped and provided a site for American Civil War artillery (cf. the heavily wooded, adjacent Culp's Hill).
Cemetery Hill overlooks the main downtown area of Gettysburg from the south, at 503 feet (153 m) above sea level, 80 feet (24 m) above the town center, about 100 feet (30 m) above Winebrenner's Run at its base. Its crest extends in a southwest-northeast direction for about 700 yards (640 m). A shallow saddle on the crest about 150 yards (140 m) from its northeast slope is the point where the Baltimore Pike crosses the hill and separates East Cemetery Hill from the remainder. The slopes to the north and west rise gradually; on East Cemetery Hill, the rise is steeper. The hill is crossed by the Baltimore Pike and the Emmitsburg Road, with the Taneytown Road between them.
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Coleraine
Coordinates: 55°07′59″N 6°39′40″W / 55.133°N 6.661°W / 55.133; -6.661
Coleraine (pronounced /kəʊl reɪn/, from Irish: Cúil Raithin meaning "nook of the ferns"[kuːlʲ ˈɾˠahɪnʲ]) is a large town near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 55 miles (88.5 km) northwest of Belfast and 30 miles (48.3 km) east of Derry, both of which are linked by major roads and railway connections. City of Derry Airport, 25 miles (40.2 km) to the west, Belfast International Airport, the main regional airport to the south and George Best Belfast City Airport to the south–east are all relatively accessible from Coleraine.
Coleraine had a population of 24,042 people in the 2001 Census. Disposable income is well above the Northern Ireland average. The North Coast (Coleraine and Limavady) area has the highest property prices in Northern Ireland, higher indeed than those of affluent South Belfast. Championship golf courses, scenic countryside and a host of leisure facilities and attractions are all on the doorstep. It has an attractive town centre, a marina and the prestigious Riverside theatre. Coleraine, during the day is a busy town, however at night the town is relatively quiet, with much of the night life in the area located in the nearby seaside towns of Portrush and Portstewart.
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County Londonderry
County Londonderry or County Derry is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Adjoined to the north-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,074 km², with a population of approximately 233,550. It is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, lying within the historical province of Ulster.
Since 1981, it has become one of four counties in Northern Ireland that has a Catholic majority (55.56% according to the 2001 Census), with 57% of the Catholic population residing within Derry City Council.
The highest point in the county is the summit of Sawel Mountain (678 m) on the border with County Tyrone. Sawel is part of the Sperrin Mountains, which dominate the southern part of the county. To the east and west, the land falls into the valleys of the Bann and Foyle rivers respectively; in the south-east, the county touches the shore of Lough Neagh, which is the largest lake in Ireland; the north of the county is distinguished by the steep cliffs, dune systems, and remarkable beaches of the Atlantic coast.
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Davidson College
Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine, although it has recently dropped to 11th in U.S. News and World Report's latest rankings. In 2011, Davidson was ranked the 5th best liberal arts college in the United States by Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
Both the town and college were named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, a Revolutionary War commander. The land for the college came from General Davidson's estate, a large portion of which was donated by his son. The college was established by Presbyterians in 1837 and maintains a loose affiliation with that denomination. According to its Statement of Purpose, "the ties that bind the college to its Presbyterian heritage . . . have remained close and strong" but the dedication of the college "extends beyond the Christian community to the whole of humanity and necessarily includes openness to and respect for the world’s various religious traditions." Majors are offered in over twenty fields, as are several minors and self-designed interdisciplinary options.
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Fort Collier
Coordinates: 37°12′6″N 78°9′10″W / 37.20167°N 78.15278°W / 37.20167; -78.15278
Built by Confederate Lieutenant Collier and Virginia militia with the aid of Federal prisoners, this redoubt guarded the north entrance of Winchester, Virginia on the east side of the Martinsburg Pike. During later Federal occupations, it was known as Battery No. 10. The fort was set on low ground, and generally offered little military advantage, except as a guard post for the pike. LtGen Jubal Early used it as part of his defensive works in the Third Battle of Wincheseter.
The fort is located on a tract of land acquired by Benjamin Stine from Jacob Baker in 1859. Shortly afterwards the American Civil War began, and extensive defensive preparations were made in the northern Shenandoah Valley. After General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command of Confederate forces centered in Harpers Ferry he quickly decided that Harpers Ferry was indefensible, and to re-center his defensive posture based in Winchester. The Stine farmstead and homesite was located on high ground alongside the valley pike, and made a natural defensive position for the north end of town, and was chosen as the site for the fort by Confederate Engineer Lieutenant Collier and William Henry Chase.
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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] (
listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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New York
New York (/njuː ˈjɔrk/; locally IPA: [nɪu ˈjɔək] or [nuː ˈjɔɹk] (
listen)) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the west and north, and Quebec to the north. The state of New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
New York City, with a population of over 8.1 million, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York state. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, New York City is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both the state and city were named for the 17th century Duke of York, James Stuart, future James II and VII of England and Scotland.
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court in England and Wales, commonly known as the Old Bailey from the street in which it stands, is a court building in central London, one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court. The Crown Court sitting at the Central Criminal Court deals with major criminal cases from Greater London and, in exceptional cases, from other parts of England and Wales. Part of the present building stands on the site of the medieval Newgate Gaol, on Old Bailey, a road which follows the line of the City of London's fortified wall (or bailey), which runs from Ludgate Hill to the junction of Newgate Street and Holborn Viaduct.
As there is a requirement for justice to be seen to be done, trials at the Old Bailey, as at other courts, are open to the public, subject to stringent security procedures.
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Peninsula Campaign
The Peninsula Campaign (also known as the Peninsular Campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement against the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia, intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat.
McClellan landed his army at Fort Monroe and moved northwest, up the Virginia Peninsula. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder's defensive position on the Warwick Line caught McClellan by surprise. His hopes for a quick advance foiled, McClellan ordered his army to prepare for a siege of Yorktown. Just before the siege preparations were completed, the Confederates, now under the direct command of Johnston, began a withdrawal toward Richmond. The first heavy fighting of the campaign occurred in the Battle of Williamsburg, in which the Union troops managed some tactical victories, but the Confederates continued their withdrawal. An amphibious flanking movement to Eltham's Landing was ineffective in cutting off the Confederate retreat. In the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, an attempt by the U.S. Navy to reach Richmond by way of the James River was repulsed.
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Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is both a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (excluding Massanutten Mountain), to the north by the Potomac River and to the south by the James River. The cultural region covers a larger area that includes all of the valley plus the Virginia highlands to the west, and the Roanoke Valley to the south. It is physiographically located within the Ridge and Valley province and is a portion of the Great Appalachian Valley.
Named for the river that stretches much of its length, the Shenandoah Valley encompasses nine counties in Virginia and two counties in West Virginia.
In addition, the cultural region also includes five more counties in Virginia:
Between the Roanoke Valley in the south and Harpers Ferry in the north, where the Shenandoah River joins the Potomac, the Valley cultural region contains 10 independent cities:
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West Virginia
West Virginia (i/ˌwɛst vərˈdʒɪnjə/) is a state in the Appalachian region of the Eastern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east. West Virginia is the 41st most extensive and the 37th most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.
West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions and broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War. The new state was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key Civil War border state. West Virginia was the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state, and was one of two states formed during the American Civil War (the other one being Nevada, which separated from Utah Territory).
The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the South. The northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio, with the West Virginia cities of Wheeling and Weirton just across the border from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, while Bluefield is less than 70 miles (110 km) from North Carolina. Huntington in the southwest is close to the states of Ohio and Kentucky, while Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry in the Eastern Panhandle region are considered to be a part of the Washington metropolitan area, in between the states of Maryland and Virginia. The unique position of West Virginia means that it is often included in several geographical regions, including the Mid-Atlantic, the Upland South, and the Southeastern United States. Notably, it is the only state that is entirely within the area served by the Appalachian Regional Commission; the area is commonly defined as "Appalachia".
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolni/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator in the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1840s. After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination. With almost no support in the South he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. And the war came.
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Bill Bryson
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science. Born an American, he was a resident of Britain for most of his adult life before returning to the US in 1995. In 2003 Bryson moved back to Britain, living in the old rectory of Wramplingham, Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of William and Mary Bryson. (In 2006 Bryson published The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, a humorous account of his childhood years in Des Moines.) His mother was of Irish stock. He has an older brother, Michael and a sister, Mary Jane Elizabeth.
Bryson attended Drake University for two years before dropping out in 1972, deciding to instead backpack around Europe for four months. He returned to Europe the following year with a high school friend, the pseudonymous Stephen Katz. Some of his experiences from this trip are relived as flashbacks in Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe, which documents a similar journey Bryson made twenty years later.
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Cummins Jackson
Cummins Edward Jackson (July 25, 1802 – December 4, 1849) was a paternal uncle of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863). He owned and operated a grist mill at Jackson's Mill, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Jackson was born at Jackson's Mill, the eldest son of Edward Jackson (1759–1828) and his second wife. He was 26 when his father died and he inherited the mill. Some of the family members claim he seized control and refused to share any of the estate; they sued to get their fair shares, but the case was never settled. Stonewall Jackson biographer James Robertson described Cummins as "unscrupulous and vindictive ... absurdly litigious", having a strong fondness for gambling, horse racing, and drinking, and he quotes an acquaintance calling Cummins a "rascal". In 1835 Cummins arbitrarily constructed a 6-foot (1.8 m) high dam stretching 150 feet (46 m) across the West Fork River, needing additional power, but he disregarded the needs of his neighbors downstream. They also sued him, but that apparently was unsuccessful because the dam still stands.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 – April 28, 1905), nephew of Robert E. Lee, was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish-American War.
Lee was born at Clermont in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was the grandson of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a nephew of Robert E. Lee and Samuel Cooper, and cousin of George Washington Custis Lee, W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr. His father, Sydney Smith Lee, was a fleet captain under Commodore Perry in Japanese waters and rose to the rank of Commodore; his mother, Anna Maria Mason Lee, was a granddaughter of George Mason and the sister of James Murray Mason.
Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1856, Lee was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (later redesignated the 5th Cavalry Regiment), which was commanded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and in which his uncle, Robert E. Lee, was lieutenant colonel. As a cavalry subaltern, he distinguished himself by his gallant conduct in actions against the Comanches in Texas, and was severely wounded in a fight in Nescutunga, Texas, in 1859. In May 1860, he was appointed instructor of cavalry tactics at West Point, but resigned his commission upon the secession of Virginia.
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Francis Henney Smith
Francis Henney Smith was a United States Military Academy graduate, United States Army second lieutenant, college professor, including teacher at West Point, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia Militia general, first superintendent of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and its rebuilder after the American Civil War and noted mathematician.
He was born in Norfolk, Virginia on October 18, 1812 and died in Lexington, Virginia on March 21, 1890. He married Miss Sarah Henderson who was born on January 6, 1812 on June 9, 1835 at West Point, New York. They had seven children.
Francis H. Smith was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, Class of 1833 and served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army until he resigned his commission on May 1, 1836. Thereafter, he was a professor of mathematics at Hampden-Sydney Institute from 1836 to 1839.
"Old Specs" as he was affectionately called by cadets, Smith had a long career as a mathematician and a military man. He was the first Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), serving from 1839 to 1889: building it up before the Civil War and rebuilding it after its near-total destruction during that war. Some time before the Civil War, he was appointed colonel in the Virginia Militia.
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George Junkin
Rev. George Junkin, D. D., LL. D. (November 1, 1790 – May 20, 1868) was an American educator and Presbyterian minister who served as the first president of Lafayette College and later as president of Miami University and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University).
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George Stoneman
George Stoneman, Jr. (August 8, 1822 – September 5, 1894) was a career United States Army officer, a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, and the 15th governor of California between 1883 and 1887.
Stoneman was born on a family farm in Busti, New York, the first child of ten. His parents were George Stoneman, Sr., a lumberman and justice of the peace, and Catherine Rebecca Cheney. He studied at the Jamestown Academy and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846; his roommate at West Point was future Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. His first assignment was with the 1st U.S. Dragoons, with which he served across the West and in California. He was the quartermaster of the Mormon Battalion, which marched from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California. He fought in the Yuma War and was responsible for survey parties mapping the Sierra Nevada range for railroad lines. After promotion to captain of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry in March 1855, he served mainly in Texas until 1861.
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Hunter McGuire
Hunter Holmes McGuire, M.D. (October 11, 1835 – September 19, 1900) was a physician, teacher, and orator. He started several schools and hospitals which later became part of the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in Richmond, Virginia. His statue sits prominently on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol. Nearby, the McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center is named in his honor.
Hunter Holmes McGuire was born in Winchester, Virginia to a prominent eye surgeon, Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire and his wife Eliza. Young Hunter was one of 7 children. He often accompanied his father, and studied medicine at the Winchester Medical College where he graduated in 1855. His continuing medical education in Philadelphia was interrupted by the onset of the hostilities which led to the American Civil War. He taught briefly at Tulane University in New Orleans before joining the Confederate Army in 1861.
Dr. McGuire joined "The Winchester Rifles," company F of the 2nd Virginia Infantry, Confederate Army, as a private. However, his services were much more valuable as a doctor rather than a front line soldier. McGuire was made a brigade surgeon and was ordered to report to General Thomas J. Jackson at Harpers Ferry. Jackson initially scoffed at McGuire's youth, but the two became very close as the war progressed. Dr. McGuire treated General Jackson after the First Battle of Manassas, where the General picked up the nickname "Stonewall Jackson" following an exclamation by General Barnard E. Bee Jr. (who himself was killed during the battle).
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Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell (October 15, 1818 – May 4, 1885) was a career American army officer. He is best known for his defeat in the First Battle of Bull Run, the first large-scale battle of the American Civil War.
McDowell was born in Columbus, Ohio, son of Abram Irvin McDowell and Eliza Seldon McDowell, both of Irish Catholic descent. He was a cousin-in-law of John Buford, and his brother, John Adair McDowell, served as the first colonel of the 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Irvin initially attended the College de Troyes in France before graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1838, where one of his classmates was P.G.T. Beauregard, his future adversary at First Bull Run. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and posted to the 1st U.S. Artillery. McDowell served as a tactics instructor at West Point, before becoming aide-de-camp to General John E. Wool during the Mexican-American War. He was brevetted captain at Buena Vista and served in the Adjutant General's department after the war. While in that department he was promoted to major on May 31, 1856.
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James Longstreet
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse." He served under Lee as a corps commander for many of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, but also with Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. Biographer and historian Jeffry D. Wert wrote that "Longstreet ... was the finest corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia; in fact, he was arguably the best corps commander in the conflict on either side."
Longstreet's talents as a general made significant contributions to the Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga, in both offensive and defensive roles. He also performed strongly during the Seven Days Battles, the Battle of Antietam, and until he was seriously wounded, at the Battle of the Wilderness. His performance in semiautonomous command during the Knoxville Campaign resulted in a Confederate defeat. His most controversial service was at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he disagreed with General Lee on the tactics to be employed and reluctantly supervised the disastrous infantry assault known as Pickett's Charge.
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James Shields
James Shields (May 10, 1810 – June 1, 1879) was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states. Shields was a senator from Illinois 1849 to 1855, in the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd congresses, from Minnesota from May 11, 1858 to March 4, 1859, in the 35th congress, and from Missouri from January 27, 1879 to March 4, 1879, in the 45th congress.
A descendant of the Ó Siadhail clan, Shields was the nephew of another James Shields, also born in Ireland, who was a Congressman from Ohio. The younger Shields immigrated to the United States around 1826 and settled in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois where he studied and later practiced law. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, beginning to serve in 1836, and then as an Illinois Supreme Court justice and in 1839 as the state auditor. (He was elected when not yet a citizen; Illinois then required only that a legislator have been resident in the state for six months.)
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John Esten Cooke
John Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 – September 27, 1886) was an American novelist and poet. He was the brother of poet Philip Pendleton Cooke.
Born in Winchester, Virginia, he was noted for writing about that state. He illustrated Virginia life and history in the novels, The Virginia Comedians (1854), and The Wearing of the Gray, a tale of the American Civil War, and more formally in a respected Virginia history. His style was somewhat high-flown. He was the author of The Youth of Jefferson.
Cooke was one of 13 children of John Rogers Cooke and Maria Pendleton Cooke. He was born on the family's plantation, "Amber's Hill," near Winchester, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. At his father’s urging, he studied and practiced law briefly in Richmond. He abandoned that in 1854 after his father’s death, and almost immediately became a successful novelist and prolific short story writer, eventually authoring 31 books and almost 200 published articles and poems. Cooke joined the Richmond Howitzers, a militia artillery unit, in the 1850s, earning the rank of sergeant.
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John Letcher
John Letcher (March 29, 1813 – January 26, 1884) was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.
John Letcher was born in the town of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He attended private rural schools and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. In 1833, he was graduated from Washington Academy in Lexington. He studied law was admitted to the Virginia State Bar and opened a practice in Lexington in 1839.
Letcher was editor of the (Shenandoah) Valley Star newspaper from 1840 to 1850. He was active in the presidential campaigns of 1840, 1844, and 1848, serving as Democratic elector in 1848. Although never a true abolitionist, he signed the Ruffner Pamphlet of 1847, which proposed the abolition of slavery in that part of Virginia west of the Blue Ridge Mountains; however, he soon repudiated this antislavery stand. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1850.
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Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker (November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although he served throughout the war, usually with distinction, Hooker is best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1837, Hooker served in the Seminole Wars and the Mexican-American War, receiving three brevet promotions. Resigning from the Army in 1853, he pursued farming, land development, and (unsuccessfully) politics in California. After the start of the Civil War he returned to the Army as a brigadier general. He distinguished himself as an aggressive combat commander leading a division in the Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862, resulting in his promotion to major general. As a corps commander, he led the initial Union attacks at the Battle of Antietam, in which he was wounded. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, he commanded a "Grand Division" of two corps, and was ordered to conduct numerous futile frontal assaults that caused his men to suffer serious losses. Throughout this period, he conspired against and openly criticized his army commanders. Following the defeat at Fredericksburg, he was given command of the Army of the Potomac.
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Julia Neale Jackson
Julia Beckwith (née Neale) Jackson (1798-1831) was the mother of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson.
Julia Beckwith Neale was born at Peach Orchard near Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia. She was daughter of Thomas and Margaret C. Winn Neale and the grand daughter of Richard Neale and Francis Underwood as well as Minor Winn and Betty Withers all of Virginia. Moving west, her father, Thomas Neale, achieved high prosperity as a merchant in the town of Parkersburg on the Ohio River. Julia was very intelligent, a devout Christian, and a belle in society, but her life became full of tragedies.
In 1817, she married Jonathan Jackson (1790-1826) of Randolph County, an attorney. They were living in Clarksburg and already had two young children when, on January 21, 1824, their third son, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (later to be known as Confederate General Stonewall Jackson) was born. Then tragedy struck the young family. When young Thomas was only 2 years old, both his father and sister Elizabeth, aged 6, died of typhoid fever. Julia gave birth to Thomas' sister Laura Anne the next day.
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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. These additional works have enabled scholars and the public to more fully comprehend the richness and depth of Margaret Mitchell's writing.
Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia, who was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, was a suffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.
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Robert Lewis Dabney
Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today.
Dabney and James Henley Thornwell were two of Southern Presbyterianism's most influential scholars. They were both Calvinist, Old School Presbyterians, and social conservatives. Some conservative Presbyterians, particularly within the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, still value their theological writings, although both these churches have repudiated Dabney's and Thornwell's beliefs on race and support of Antebellum slavery.
Dabney studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1842), and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1846.
He was then a missionary in Louisa County, Virginia, from 1846 to 1847 and pastor at Tinkling Spring, Virginia from 1847 to 1853, being also head master of a classical school for a portion of this time. From 1853 to 1859 he was professor of ecclesiastical history and polity and from 1859 to 1869 adjunct professor of systematic theology in Union Theological Seminary, where he later became full professor of systematics. In 1883, he was appointed professor of mental and moral philosophy in the University of Texas.
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Robert Toombs
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party Senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a minor Confederate general in the Civil War. He feuded bitterly with Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Clawson says he was "a bullish politician whose blend of acerbic wit, fiery demeanor, and political tact aroused the full spectrum of emotions from his constituents and colleagues....[he] could not balance his volatile personality with his otherwise keen political skill."
Born near Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, Robert Augustus Toombs was the fifth child of Catherine Huling and Robert Toombs. He was of English descent. His father died when he was five, and he entered Franklin College at the University of Georgia in Athens when he was just fourteen. During his time at Franklin College he was a member of the Demosthenian Literary Society, which honors him as one of its most legendary alumni to this day. After the university chastised him for unbecoming conduct in a card-playing incident, Toombs continued his education at Union College, in Schenectady, New York, from which he graduated in 1828. Toombs went on to study law at the University of Virginia Law School in Charlottesville. Shortly after his admission to the Georgia bar, he married his childhood sweetheart, Julia A. Dubose, with whom he had three children.
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Smedley Butler
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. By the end of his career, he had received 16 medals, five for heroism. He is one of 19 men to twice receive the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only man to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
In his 1935 book War is a Racket, he described the workings of the military-industrial complex and, after retiring from service, became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s.
In 1934, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purported plot would have had Butler leading a mass of armed veterans in a march on Washington. The individuals identified denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations. The final report of the committee stated that there was evidence that such a plot existed, but no charges were ever filed. The opinion of most historians is that while planning for a coup was not very advanced, wild schemes were discussed.
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Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863; the general survived with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications from pneumonia eight days later. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.
Jackson in death became an icon of Southern heroism and commitment, joining Lee in the pantheon of the "Lost Cause".
Military historians consider Jackson to be one of the most gifted tactical commanders in U.S. history. His Valley Campaign and his envelopment of the Union Army right wing at Chancellorsville are studied worldwide even today as examples of innovative and bold leadership. He excelled as well in other battles: the First Battle of Bull Run (where he received his famous nickname "Stonewall"), Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jackson was not universally successful as a commander, however, as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862.
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Turner Ashby
Turner Ashby, Jr. (October 23, 1828 – June 6, 1862) was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War. He had achieved prominence as Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's cavalry commander, in the grade of colonel, in the Shenandoah Valley before he was killed in battle in 1862. Although he is sometimes referred to as a general and his name often appears in lists of Confederate generals, his appointment as brigadier general was never confirmed by the Confederate Senate. He died two weeks after his appointment and the Confederate Senate did not act to confirm the appointment during that time.
Turner Ashby, Jr. was born at Rose Bank Plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia, to Turner Sr. and Dorothea Green Ashby. As a child he often played in the waters of nearby Goose Creek. His father died when he was young, and Turner was raised by his mother. In later years, he bought a residence near his childhood home and named it Wolfe's Crag. His father had fought as a colonel in the War of 1812, and his grandfather Jack Ashby served as a captain during the American Revolutionary War.
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William Gilham
William Henry Gilham (January 13, 1818 - November 16, 1872) was an American soldier, teacher, chemist, and author. A member of the faculty at Virginia Military Institute, in 1860, he wrote a military manual which was still in modern use 145 years later. He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and became president of Southern Fertilizing Company in Richmond after the War.
William Henry Gilham was born in Vincennes, Indiana on January 13, 1818. his father's family came from Virginia. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he graduated 5th in the Class of 1840.
He became a lieutenant in the 3rd Artillery in the United States Army and fought in the Seminole War in Florida. From September 1841 to August 1844, he was Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). He served in the Mexican-American War in 1846. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1852.
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849–1850) and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass. He was a planter and slaveholder based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the United States Army, serving in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and the Second Seminole War. He achieved fame leading American troops to victory in the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Monterrey during the Mexican–American War.
As president, Taylor angered many Southerners by taking a moderate stance on the issue of slavery. He urged settlers in New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage and draft constitutions for statehood, setting the stage for the Compromise of 1850.
Taylor died July 9, 1850, 16 months after his inauguration; the third-shortest tenure of any President. He is thought to have died of gastroenteritis. President Taylor was succeeded by his Vice President, Millard Fillmore.
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[ instrumental ]
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep you'll cry and cry you'll try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through your cheatin' heart will tell on you
Oh when tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around you'll call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do your cheatin' heart will tell on you
[ piano ]
Your cheatin' heart will pine someday you'll crave the love you threw away
The time will come when you'll be blue your cheatin' heart will tell on you
That last time I called you on the phone
You said you thought that I had really gone
You thought that I'd forgotten you
Oh how can I forget
You haven't heard about me dying have you yet
You haven't heard where I jumped in some river
You haven't read my notice in the Evening Gazette
I'll love you even if I live forever
You haven't heard about me dying have you yet
[ piano ]
I grieve for you each night while I'm alone
I walk the streets I wonder what went wrong
You think I still don't cry for you why is my pillow wet
You haven't heard about me dying have you yet
You haven't heard where I jumped in some river
You haven't read my notice in the Evening Gazette
I'll love you even if I live forever
All the days of my youth I remember so well I lived in a world on my own
Nobody cared where my money came from when I had it I wasn't alone
Oh the wine flowed freely and friendship was mine how they all loved me back then
But here in this prison I sit all alone and now where are all of my friends
[ guitar ]
So drink and be marry if this is your wish of wastin' your life out in sin
But remember someday you may be as I am with nothing not even a friend
Oh the wine flowed freely...
[ piano ]
So here's to the freedom I never shall have I know it's not long till the end
But I'd rather be dead than to spend ninety years
The crest of the waves break over my head
My strenght's about gone and soon I'll be dead
I'd rather be dead out here in the sea than to love a woman who never loved me
Oh the water's so cold out here in the dark
The water's so cold as cold as your heart
The lights from the shore are fast growing dim the water's so cold I can hardly swim
I offered my ring I offered my name she said you're a child she put me to shame
If she saw me now she'd have to agree most men couldn't swim this far out to sea
Oh the water's so cold...
I'm writing this letter to you tonight mom and this is the reason I write
It's been a long time since I have been home oh I wish I was with you tonight
I recall now five long years ago when I left there and I went away
I was too young to see I was wrong oh I miss you and dad more each day
[ steel ]
Don't ever forget in my heart there's regret
It's not your fault things turned out this way
In the gaveyard's a man that died by my hand
We learned lessons but sometimes they lay
This morning at dawn I must die for my wrong
Mom forgive me the pain I've caused you
All around the water tank a waitin' for a train
I'm a thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to the brakeman just to give him a line of talk
But he said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk
Well I haven't got a nickel not one penny can I show
Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door
[ dobro ]
They put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me and the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land
Yes my pocketbook is empty and my heart is filled with pain
I don't like the sunshine I don't see the stars
I just hate the moonbeams that's shining where you are
I don't like the places where we walked arm in arm
This world holds nothing since you're gone
I don't see the robins nor hear the bluebirds sing
The winter could be summer and autumn might be spring
I don't know or care for friends we've known so long
This world holds nothing since you're gone
I know I'm bound to meet you upon the street some day
And you'll be with your new love and I'll have to turn away
Oh how I'll dread that moment because I can't stand the pain
To see two hearts just passing that'll never love again
I don't like the sunshine...
I'm praying for the rain in California
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
I'm sittin' in a honky in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on my mind
I match the man behind the bar for the jukebox
And the music takes me back to Tennessee
When they ask him who's the fool in the corner crying
I say a little ole wine drinker me
[ harmonica ]
I came here last week from down in Nashville cause my baby left for Florida on a train
I thought I'd get a job and just forget her
But in Chicago a broken heart is still the same
I match the man...
Nestled in the heart of the Tennessee Hills
Among the peaceful pines midst the rocks and the rills
There stands my old homeplace of long long ago
It brings back fond mem'ry of one I loved so
I courted that maiden so sweet and so fair
With heavenly eyes and with chestnut brown hair
She said that she loved me and always would be mine
But I went away leavin' her there behind
I'll tell you the reason that I left here there
To roam this old world with its sorrow and care
I saw her one night in the arms of a man hugging and kissing as two lovers can
While dining one night in a far off country town
A stranger walked in and he chanced to sit down
While speaking of loved ones I happened to find
He was the brother of that old sweetheart of mine
When he heard my story to me then he said
The one you love has a long time been dead
Oh I was the one who you saw that fatal night
All wrapped in the arms of my sister so tight
She loved you so dearly but you broke her heart
You're gonna break my heart beyond repair
But I guess that you wouldn't care
You should wear a sign that's painted bright
The kind that glows in the night
Touch me not I'll bring you pain
Touch me and you'll never be the same
You were anything you seemed to be
But to win your love was my destiny
You're like an ornament that decorates the world
So show a sign you're not like other girls
Touch me not I'll bring you pain
Touch me and you'll never be the same
I've already paid the price for you
So why make another pay it too
Someone will fall just like I did before
If you don't show a sign of what's in store
Touch me not I'll bring you pain
Touch me and you'll never be the same
Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
And then today I started loving you again
What a fool I was to think I could get by with only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known that the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
So today I started...
[ piano ]
Yes today I started...
In a war torn land of poverty somewhere across the sea
There's a little guy who's waiting and he looks a lot like me
His hair is like the raven or the wings of a crow
I don't know what they named him but I'm sure they called him Joe
Just a little guy called Joe like so many more I know
Left all alone somewhere across the sea
I want him to have my name little Joe is mine to claim
This little guy called Joe belongs to me
[ piano ]
His mother died to give him life the night my orders came
I wanted to be with them but war's an evil thing
Now he won't recognize me but I've got to let him know
He means much more to someone than just a little guy called Joe
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
I just kissed the one I love for the last time
And never have her soft lips then so sweet
She's gone away and won't be back forever
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
Not just because I'm sad but cause I'm weak
I can't stand the thought of life alone without her
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
[ guitar ]
Just before she said goodbye she called me darling
And slowly ran her fingers down my cheek
I thought I'd die when she said she still love me
Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep
Drinking beer talking loud hanging round with a no good crowd
There's no reason to be living since you're gone
Living fast neon lights spending many restless nights
There's no reason to be living since you're gone
You didn't know you've had the power to wreck a good man's life
I cry dear every hour and can't sleep a wink at night
Lost my job got no friends I guess that soon my life would end
There's no reason to be living since you're gone
[ piano - guitar ]
You didn't know you've had the power...
In my troubled sleep my hands reach out to touch you
But you're no longer there to greet my hungry hands
Then I wake up and I cry out in the darkness
And wonder how much more of this my heart can stand
A man can stand so much hurtin' I've stood a lot that's for certain
But without your love I'm bound to lose my mind
I've cried so much I hurt all over the breakin' forty's gettin' closer
There's a limit and I've almost reached mine
[ guitar ]
Once I had my pride and called myself a strong man
But my strength and pride walked out the door with you
Now this awful aching hurt keeps tearing at me
It's killing me to think of you with someone new
A man can stand...
After all I've done you still love me
You still show that I'm your only one
Putting off with me I know takes everything
But don't think that I'm not thankful for your love
Many times I know your heart I've broken
And I'm so ashamed for things I've done
Someone like me just don't deserve a girl like you
But don't think that I'm not thankful for your love
I'm not proud that I have seen you crying
Over something that I have said or done
I've done so many things that I'm not too proud of
But don't think that I'm not thankful for your love
[ steel ]
Oh I just return from a wedding a wedding that never should be
Although she has married another in her heart offered vows were to me
I could tell that her poor heart was breaking as she promised to love and obey
When her eyes turned to me it was so plain to see
There were tears on her bridal bouquet
[ piano - steel ]
If I had it all to live over if there was some way to atone
But I know it's too late to regret now for another has made her his own
So I'll take all the blame it was my fault yes the two hearts were broken today
Though she tried hard this time as she walk down the isle
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
You've grown cold and no longer care for me
All my faith in you is gone but these heartaches linger on
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Take these tears from my eyes and let me see just a spark of the love that used to be
If you love somebody new let me find a new love too
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
[ piano ]
Give my heart just a word of sympathy be as fair to my heart as you can be
Then if you no longer care for the love that's beating there
Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Your secret love has known to everybody in this town
No need to try you can't deny the talk that's going round
You'll meet in secret places when you think no one's around
People calling you the sweetheart of the town
Would you rather have the name sweetheart instead of wife
Oh why not be content to tread the wrong way for the right
The kind of life you're living now I just can't stay around
While they're calling you the sweetheart of the town
[ piano ]
Infatuation's not the kind of love that we once knew
But that's the kind you hope for him the kind he's giving you
I'm like a ballhead on a string that you can pull around
While they're calling you the sweetheart of the town
Would you rather have...
I met you and we married we planned our future well
Built our home on happiness then suddenly it fell
It wasn't long there after our love began to tilt
Sorrow's tearing down the house that happiness once built
First came the weekend parties that never seemed to end
Then came the heartache brought by so-called friends
I guess that I'm as much to blame and while we share the guilt
Sorrow's tearing down the house that happiness once built
[ ac.guitar ]
Mama died when I was born that July daddy took the drinking long before he died
Grandma kept me up until her passing somebody's always leaving
I've met Betty Jo at school for orphans in those two years we saw each other often
A car wreck took her life before our wedding somebody's always leaving
[ steel ]
Susan Johnson left me three good children
They say the man she left with went to prison
God knows I done my best to try to raise 'em somebody's always leaving
Six years ago Susie called from Ireland Mary Jane sent me a card from Wheeling
The telegram said my son died for freedom somebody's always leaving
[ steel ]
They said that barroom brawl was all my doin'
They knifed my pal that's when I started shootin'
The only friend I've had lay there bleedin' somebody's always leavin'
This cell ain't big but it's big enough for thinking
This bed sheet makes her rope that's what I'm making
When they'll find me quite right bored there'll be no weeping
As I sit at this bar and drink it over thoughts of you keep running through my mind
So I build myself a ship inside this bottle sail away leave all my blues behind
Ship in the bottle don't you fail me I'm drowning in my sorrow can't you see
Ship in the bottle please sail me where that rising tide of hurt can't get to me
[ dobro ]
I board my ship and sail all through my bottle
My friends say it's through water on my brain
But I'm in high spirits even though they're liquid
I've finally found the way to ease my pain
Ship in the bottle please sail me I'm drowning in my sorrow can't you see
Ship in the bottle don't you fail me keep that rising tide of hurt away from me
Oh Lord I'm just a poor man but I've worked like a slave
I may not know what please me until I'm in my grave
I've lived without a lot of things I've only got one plea
When I'll work my last day Lord save a little place for me
All of my life I've worked so hard I've never had the best
You sent your love to give me strenght so I've got by on list
So save your best for all the rest your love is all I need
In the corner of your heaven Lord save a little place for me
[ piano ]
It's true I've worked this poor land faced the hardships with a smile
Cause it's been worth each tired night just to feed my wife and child
I'd gladly die a proper Lord to reach eternity
To find out up in heaven Lord there's a little place for me
(Oh the sadness in a song)
In a crowded honky tonk music starts to play
Happy couples all around dance the night away
At a table in a corner I sit all alone every song's the sad one since my baby's gone
Oh the sadness in a song when the only one you love has gone
Anyway they play the tune it comes out loneliness and blue
When the one you love has gone oh the sadness in a song
[ piano ]
While a lonesome city sleeps to pass away the time
By myself I walk the streets with a troubled mind
Up ahead the neon sign it says All Nite Cafe
Pour a cup of coffee I can hear the jukebox play
Oh the sadness in a song when the only one you love has gone
No matter how they play the tune it comes out loneliness and blue
A bluebird a wingin' his lonely way south
Tryin' to escape from the cold and the drought
He's all alone in the cold grey sky fly little bluebird fly fly fly
North wind a blowing oh so cold poor little bird is so brave and so bold
He just keeps a flying for a southern sky his only hope is to fly fly fly
Well he's not the only one that's on that trail this old boy he just projail
Always a runnin' always afraid the good Lord above knows I've paid paid paid
Train whistle moaning oh so low and I don't even know where to go
I'll just keep a following the rising sun my only hope is to run run run
Well I was like to give up and turn myself in
But they would only bury me under the pen
So I'll keep a running until the day I die
The thought of this it makes me wanna cry cry cry
Tonight there's a fire burning brightly in my chimney
Though the weather's far from cold
It's your picture and the letters you send me you're gone so your mem'ry must go
I have cry until I'm too weak to cry I have drink until the drinks won't go down
I must start on the road to recovery before there's no turning around
[ piano - steel ]
I realize there's little hope for me if I'll keep your sweet mem'ries this way
But just knowing that I've lost you forever life's a long way from here to my grave
Just tonight I'll rely on the wine to dim your mem'ry as the last drop goes down
Then I'll start on the road to recovery there'll soon be no turning around
From this valley they say you are leavin' oh I'll miss your blue eyes and sweet smile
And I know you'll be takin' the sunshine that has lightened our path for a while
Come and sit by my side till you're leavin' do not hasten to bid me adieu
And remember the Red River Valley and the cowboy that loved you so true
[ steel ]
When you think of the love that you're leavin' and the words that I never could say
Just remember that I also love you although you may have learned it too late
So come sit by my side little darlin' do not hasten to bid me adieu
I've got plenty od everything but you
Last night the moon was shining made a perfect night for love
And I had love words that I know would made you mine
Well my arms were reaching to hold you tight and my lips were burning too
I've got plenty od everything but you
Got plenty money for a wedding band and a pretty suit of blue
And heaven only knows how many years I could make love to you
And I know the preacher who will do his part while we say I do
I've got plenty of everything but you
[ guitar ]
I could smell that ham a frying hear the cowbell down the lane
And mama would singing some old love songs for me
Everything in the world would be thankful for but still I was sad and blue
I've got plenty od everything but you
Got plenty money...
Please help me I'm falling in love with you
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk through
Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to
Please help me I'm falling in love with you
[ piano ]
I belong to another whose arms have grown cold
But I promised forever to have and to hold
I can never be free dear but when I'm with you I know that I'm losing the will to be true
Please help me I'm falling and that would be sin
Close the door to temptation and don't let me walk in
For I mustn't want you but darling I do please help me I'm falling in love with you
I know not where on earth to find you I know not how or where to start
I only know I'm lost without you I've got pins and needles in my heart
The days and nights are growing longer since first you said that we must part
I only know I can't forget you with these pins and needles in my heart
[ dobro ]
I always see your face before me your smile is heaven's work of art
But now you're smiling at another and there's pins and needles in my heart
Sometime somewhere we'll meet again dear and love will make the teardrops start
When she left me all she left me was lonely
She took everything that mean anything to me
As times go by times go by for me so slowly but the past is all the future I see
And the more I think of her the more I think of her love
And I believe I make believe she still loves me
For each day I find each day that she's still on my mind
And the past is all the future I see
[ steel ]
The stars I see I can see don't shine so brightly
If there's sunshine it never shines for me
And blue skies only leave me blue and lonely and the past is all the future I see
And the past is all the future I see
And the more I think...
You were my one look at heaven I was closer than I've ever been before
You were my one look at heaven but you left me just outside the door
Around your head there was no halo upon your shoulders were no wings
But to me you'll always be an angel for that's the way I see you in my dreams
You were my one look...
[ fiddle ]
This earth was never meant for paradise and you were never meant for me
But you gave me one look at heaven that no one can take away from me
(Never more never more) never more quote the Raven never more
Nothing hurts as strong as knowing you've done wrong
And not a thing will make it right again
I don't blame you for walking out the door when you did that raven flew right in
Never more quote the Raven never more
Your one big chance for love went out the door
Oh please Raven tell me when she'll be back again
Never more quote the Raven never more
I said raven what's my fate tell it to me straight
Can I mend that gentle heart I broke
Will I end up alone or will she come back home
The Raven thought a moment then he spoke
Never more quote the Raven...
Never more quote the Raven never more
Then he spread his wings and he flew back out the door
And the voice that sealed my doom still echoes in my room
Everybody's a going out and having fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me
A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool is blind and just can't see oh lonesome me
Well I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
Flirtin' with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms
Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find me somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z oh lonesome me
[ banjo ]
Well I'll bet she's not like me...
I've tried everything that I could think of
Went out and bought some things I've wanted to
Spent money for a while like it's going out of style
Nothing takes the place of loving you
I looked for consolation in the barrooms like too many broken hearted do
I drank a full grop down but every night I found
Nothing takes the place of loving you
Nothing takes the place of holding your soft hands in mine
Empty glasses only leave me blue
Where your sweet lips used to be there's just a taste of wine
And nothing takes the place of loving you
[ piano ]
I thought that I could find someone to help me
Now I can't find the girls I've run through
But after every fling I find the same old thing nothing takes the place of loving you
Nothing takes the place of holding...
I called the old crowd over as soon as you were gone
My first night here without you couldn't stand to be alone
Their jokes're not really funny but their laughing just the same
They're not my kind of people but I'm so glad they came
I'll be all right as long as I'll keep laughing I'll be all right until this party ends
But when the jokes have all been told and the drinks no longer flows
They'll all go home and I won't smile till they come back again
They're not my kind of people but I'm so glad they came
I guess your friends will tell you how I lived here up tonight
You'll think that I don't miss you you'll be far from being right
They can't help me to forget you but their trying just the same
They're not my kind of people but I'm so glad they came
No one will ever know my heart is breaking although a million teardrops start to flow
I'll cry myself to sleep and wake up smiling I'll miss you but no one will ever know
I'll tell them we grew tired of each other and realized our dreams could never be
I'll even make believe I never loved you then no one will ever know the truth from me
[ piano ]
No one will ever know how much I'm pining
Each time the past comes back to haunt me so
No one will ever see the tears I'm hiding you've hurt me but no one will ever know
I'll tell them I've found true love with another
That I was glad the day you set me free
She was a good girl from the family well respecting
Until he offered her the whole world in her hands
Then she went with him to do the things he wanted
She didn't know the morals of a man
It didn't take long until he changed her from a good girl
Since he forgot to buy a wedding band
Then he left her here in life for he had made her
She was learning fast the morals of a man
Now she don't even try to hold her head up
And they call her name she don't quite understand
Look out upon by those she thought who loved her
Too late she learned the morals of a man
[ guitar ]
Many long nights she holds her baby to her
And thinks quietly she has her whole world in her hand
For she has no one left except her baby
Yes I gather up the pieces of my heart dear I'm a wondering if I'll ever love again
Just because I lost my head and fell for you dear
I'm afraid your love would struck me down again
So don't take my kind of chances while you're searching
For the love that you believe is true
For that mis'ry known as hearetache may be lurking
In his heart to lay by and torture you
[ fiddle ]
Maybe someday you can find the love you've longed for
If you do then I'll be happy as can be
But I'm still wondering just what you led me on for
When you made me believe that it was me
They march in lines and carry signs protesters one and all
They'd rather go to prison than to heed their country's call
Get out of here get out of there let's have an end to war
I'm glad they weren't around to say get out of Valley Forge
The Minute Men are turning in their graves
Washington and Jefferson are crying tears of shame
To see these men who'd rather live as slaves
The Minute Men are turning in their graves
What's happened to our heritage what's happen to our pride
Since when do free Americans pull for the other side
Did we send food to Hitler's troops or praise the enemy
Did all our children die in vain defending liberty
The Minute Men are turning in their graves...
I can't condemn a man who feels that taking life is wrong
But I fail to understand a man that won't defend his home
Dear Lord I've got one little prayer I pray in years to come
Don't ever let those kind of people serve in Washington
The Minute Men are turning in their graves...
Oh the Minute Men are turning in their graves
I got back in this town today for ten long years I've been away
Been working for the state I've been a working behind a big iron gate
I thought I'd take a stroll downtown maybe kinda look around
Just to ease my worried mind and maybe pass away some time
My friend said buddy come on in and I'll buy you another round
Your woman ain't at home no more she's out among the town
Well I guess she couldn't stand the pain my prison life would ruin her name
Guess that's why my babe has gone I'm a man I'm a man without a home
[ guitar - piano ]
They say that love's a very old word it dated back to the starting of time
You can read it in the pages of hist'ry where for the love of a woman man has cried
They say that Cesar wealth before the batlle
The one he loved had found somebody knew
And I guess that's why these tears of mine keep falling
Well like him I too am losing you
[ guitar - steel ]
They say that absence make the heart grow fonder
Short partings can bring tears to our eyes
Like the story of Sampson and Delilah for the love of a woman man has cried
That's why I'm not ashamed to admit it ashamed to say I've cried for you at night
I go home to a home where love is all gone I remember how things used to be
Over there is her picture with our little boy and it brings out the lonesome in me
What can I do what can I say what made me treat her that way
I walk into a room where my baby should be and it brings out the lonesome in me
[ guitar - piano ]
Just a drink now and then with some sicialable friends
But the good wine got a bad hold on me
Now I know that I'll never see them no more for the right was just taken from me
Jesus hold my hand I need the every art
Through this troubled land protect me by your side
Hear my feeble plea oh Lord look down on me
For I need your light to guide me day and night blessed Jesus hold my hand
As I travel through this troubled land there's a friend who walks with me
Guide me safely through the sinking sand it is the price of calvary
This would be my prayer to Lord each day to help me do the best that I can
When I kneel and pray I hope to meet you there blessed Jesus hold my hand
[ organ - piano ]
Jesus hold my hand...
Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday
Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away
We had our love to make us happy it wasn't meant to bring us tears
A love like ours should never never die so darling let's turn back the years
[ piano ]
There is no doubt you've been untrue you're stepping out with someone new
Your love has gone I cannot stay no need to cry let's call it a day
The love we knew is in the past once it was true but didn't last
It just ain't right to live this way dis-satisfied let's call it a day
[ steel ]
It seems that we just can't agree the life I want can never be
I won't pretend it just don't fail it only hurts let's call it a day
The plans we made are overdue just hopeless dreams that won't come true
Leona, Leona you tell him you're through
You tell him Leona, about me and you
You tell him we're married with a baby up to
You tell him Leona, you tell him you're through
You laughed as I pleaded and walked out the door
To meet him, to kiss him, to shame me once more
I knew where to find you just follow the sign
Dancing and dining cocktails and wine
The sidewalk was crowded in front of the bar
I heard the sirens of black police car
Two bodies lay crumbled a woman, a man
His wife stood there by you, a gun in her hand
Leona, Leona it's over and through
The baby is crying and calling for you
For me there's no difference, I've knew for so long
Kneel at the cross Christ will meet you there oh come while he waits for you
Listen to his voice leave within you care and begin life anew
Kneel at the cross leave every care kneel at the cross Jesus will meet you there
Kneel at the cross there is room for all who would his glory share
Bless their way and you'll never fall those who are anchored there
Kneel at the cross leave every care kneel at the cross Jesus will meet you there
[ banjo ]
Kneel at the cross give your idles up look onto rims above
Turn on the way to God's sparkling cup trust only in his love
Jerry Miles was a boofrog he was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said Lord I helped him drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singing joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the big blue sea joy to you and me
If I was a king of the world I tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the bars and the cars and the wars and make sweet love to you
Oh yeah make sweet love to you
Singing joy to the world...
[ harmonica - steel ]
You know I love you lady I love to have my fun
I'm a high night flyer and a rainbow rider a straight shootin' son of a gun
I said a straight shootin' son of a gun
A singing joy to the world...
Joy to the world...
An acre of diamonds I'd offered to you a solid gold mansion an airplane or two
This world would be yours dear to have and to hold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
I'd have all the treasures my pockets to hold
I'd be oh so wealthy with treasures untold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
[ steel - guitar ]
The tears that you've caused me won't buy you one thing
The heartaches you've brought me won't pay for a ring
The love that I wanted my God have grown cold
If hurt was a tavern then I'd have a home
Somewhere to miss you since you've been gone
If pain was a bottle and tears were neon signs
If heartaches were wine I'd stay drunk all the time
If blue was an avenue then I've walked it so many times
Trying hard to forget you but you're still on my mind
If worries were this table and lonesome was worth a dime
If heartaches were wine I'd be drunk all the time
[ guitar - steel ]
If heartaches were wine I would never be sober
I'd always be too drunk to know that our love is over
If teardrops were whiskey then I'd stay stone blind
If heartaches were wine I'd be drunk all the time
I've got to change and to stop my running round
She tried so hard to build me up now I'm on my way down
She tried to keep me happy all I've cost her was pain
Before all her love has gone I've got to change
Oh how could I blame her if she too should run around
At times that she needs me most I'm in some other town
She don't deserve the way I treat her and I feel so ashamed
Before all her love has gone I've got to change
[ piano ]
Oh how could I blame her...
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
That midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long when time goes crawlin' by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ fiddle - steel ]
Did you ever see a robin weep when leaves began to die
Like means he's lost the will to live I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
Funny how the spring brings back your mem'ry
And the summer finds you always on my mind
In the loneliness of fall I can almost hear you call
But it seems I miss you most in the winter time
On the winter's not the world as cold as I feel
As I reach to touch the place you left behind
Anytime of the year you can always find the tear
But it seems I miss you most in the winter time
[ guitar ]
Did you tell him how the snow fell as you left me
But I'm sure he was with you all the time
Can you send me down your love to warm me from above
Don't God know I miss you most in the winter time
I sat there with my teardrops showing just the way I felt
Looking at the emptiness the one I love had left
My little boy said daddy mama's left us all alone
I'll go get the tool box and you can fix our broken home
You can fix our broken home daddy I just know you can
I watched you fix my wagon and now the wheels are tight again
Things will turn out alright daddy don't you cry cause mama's gone
I'll go get the tool box and you can fix our broken home
[ steel ]
You should have heard my tiny boy for courage in this man
The courage to repair our shattered world now right again
Thanks to him I found her his words pushed me along
I'll go get the tool box and you can fix our broken home
I wish I had a girl someone to love me true
I wish I had a sweetheart just like you
Someone to hold me close and never break a vow
And I know that we could get along somehow
We may not have these great big things or money
But please I need someone to love me now
A pretty little thing like you a sweetheart just like you
And I know that we could really get along
[ steel ]
I've never had a love and life's no good alone
I've never had someone to call my own
And when I'm close to you the whole world seems brand new
So I know that we could really get along
We may not have these great big things or money...
Once I lived a life of wine and roses I drank a lot back then so one concern
Success for me lay just around the corner
I thought my social friends could help me make me turn
But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses a victim of the drunken life I chose
Now all my social friends look down their noses
Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose
[ dobro ]
I stood by and watched the bottle take control of me
The turn I made was not the turn I'd planned
I watched my social standings slip away from me
Yes I watched the bottle slowly take command
Oh now I'm paying for the days...
Ten dollars for my wedding band that's all the man would pay
But then I slipped it from my hand I pawned my past today
Not long ago we said goobye and went our seperate ways
Ten dollars for a love gone by I pawned my past today
[ piano ]
With this ring goes memories of happy yesterdays
So if I cry excuse me please I pawned my past today
To me true love is life itself guess I'll just waste away
Today I passed you on the street and my heart fell at your feet
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
Somebody else stood by your side and he looked so satisfied
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
A picture from the past came slowly stealing
As he held your hand and walked so close to you
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
[ steel - piano ]
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you he'll hold you just the way I used to do
Well my life seems such a mess and I don't know what to say
Said I can't go on a living this way
I'd like to go down to the river and drown me if I could
But I'd go down remembering so it wouldn't do no good
I'd like to leave this thought behind but it caught me every day
And I can't go on a living this way
Well I'm always a moanin' I'm always a groanin' I got these weary blues
I'm always a cryin' I'm always a sighin' it's always over you
Well I feel too bad to leave this town but I'm too sick to stay
Well I can't go on a living this way
[ piano ]
How many arms hold the wrong one so tight under these heavens above
How many lips kiss the wrong one goodnight
But is it wrong when you're hungry for love but is it wrong when you're hungry for love
I know that it's a sin but here I go again out with someone else just like last night
My heart I can't control since your love's grown cold
And to live with faded love just ain't right
How many arms hold...
[ banjo ]
I know that it's a sin...
Oh I've just been downtown I've spread the talk around
That I'm glad you're gone I'm better off by myself
I've made them all believe I'm glad that you don't want me
Oh how many lies can I tell
How many lies can I tell when I know so well that I'm hurtin' no one but myself
I'll find me someone new I naver really cared for you oh how many lies can I tell
[ steel ]
I'm glad you're not around I'll find me someone else
I don't feel let down I count no love for you left
I'll never sit and grieve your memory won't haunt me oh how many lies can I tell
How many lies...
Once lived a man that was an inspiration to country music to the entire nation
I used his songs to learn upon there's many friends to thank
Like Ernest Tubb or George D Hay Wes Rose and here's to Hank
I used to sit around at night with my old beat up guitar
And I'd wonder how it felt to be a country music singing star
I've heard Hank Williams many times till I learned his songs by heart
They've my start got me jobs when I was broke and that helped me to get my start
As God looks down on me I hope that he's pleased I've worked so hard
Yes it's true a man can sleep at night that has worked until he's tired
Success is smilin' down on my head and to all my sincere thanks
Just last night my love said she was leaving
I sat right there and cried until the dawn
Then booze was added to the pain and heartbreak
The combination equalled trouble from then on
Blues plus booze means I lose
Not a right combination for anyone to choose
Nobody knows the feeling till he's been in my shoes
Blues plus booze means I lose
[ piano ]
Tonight I'm fast forgetting how she left me
But tomorrow pain will come on twice as strong
I order stronger booze and louder music
Like I'm happy for tonight but not for long
If you loved me half as much as I love you
You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do
You're nice to me when there's no one else around
You only build me up to let me down
If you missed me half as much as I miss you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I love you
[ fiddle - piano ]
In my heart the tears are falling in my dreams I'm always calling
For your love but you keep stalling now there's grieving in my heart
Oh I feel so forsaken and this lonely heart keeps achin'
And I guess I'll go on waitin' with this grieving in my heart
Cause I know that I still love you and I place no one above you
And I'm always thinkin' of you but there's grieving in my heart
[ guitar ]
Why did you even take me then so suddenly forsake me
Now you act just like you hate me left grieving ineart
Guess I can hardly met you but I guess I'll have to take you
I need you leave and break you with grieving in my heart
Oh we could start all over if you just come back tomorrow
Gonna find me a bluebird let him sing me a song
Cause my heart's been broken much too long
Gonna chase me a rainbow through a heaven of blue
Cause I'm all through crying over you
There was a time my love was needed my life completed my dreams came true
Then came the time my life was haunted my love unwanted all for you
[ whistle ]
Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us never molested though in the wrong
Farther along we'll know all about it farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine we'll understand it all by and by
When we see Jesus coming in glory when he comes from his home in the sky
Then we shall meet him in that bright mansion we'll understand it all by and by
When death has come and taken our loved ones it leaves our home so lonely and drear
Then do we wonder why others prosper living so wicked year after year
Faithful till death said our loving Master a few more days to labor and wait
Last night I went to a party held my head up high
Said hello to old friends wore a happy smile
And nobody knew I was hurtin' cause heartache you can't see
Guess I fooled everybody everybody but me everybody but me
I listened to their little jokes even laughed out loud
But oh how I miss someone not being with the crowd
Yet nobody knew I was crying here's in my memories
Guess I fooled everybody everybody but me everybody but me
[ ac.guitar ]
I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home
For I didn't know the cold hard facts of life
I passed a little winestore on the corner I pictured big champagne by candle light
I stopped the car right then got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life
A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
He said I'll take two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winkled as if to say you know the rest
I left the store two steps behind the stranger
From there to my house his car stayed in sight
But it wasn't till he turned into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life
I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
I drank a fifth of courage and walked in
Lord you should've seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell or I'll rot here in this cell
But who told who the cold hard facts of life
I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme
A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make those teardrops start
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
[ steel ]
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from life to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I see your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you the more we drift apart
One more kiss before you go there'll be no harming that I know
And the kiss will help so much to heal the pain
I've tried so hard to make you see just how much you mean to me
But the more I try the less you dear for me
A broken heart a wedding band that never touched your love in hand
How can I ever face is world alone
Sure as sun's up in the sky I don't care if I live or die
All I've got a broken heart a weddin' band
[ steel - guitar ]
I'm so glad that I've known you I guess there's nothing I can do
I should have known I couldn't hold you the start
God bless you and your lucky man give him all the love you can
Don't leave him with a broken heart a weddin' band
I don't know why I drink so much can't even stand the test
But liquid courage helps me through my day
If I take time to stop and think the booze just goes to waste
I'm still the same cause I was born that way
My love walked out and mama cried I've heard she even cursed
And said I'm turning off my family grey
Of all the kids she raised no doubt Stonewall turned out the worse
Guess I must have just been born that way
I guess there's a streak of sorry burried in each man
And it always shows up now and then
Mine wasn't burried deep enough it's got the upper hand
Cause that line between the good and bad's so thin
The preacher said my only chance was to be born again
So I got bowties and tried so hard to break
But the devil in me laughed and danced when I went back to sin
Guess I must have just been born that way
Reminiscing for a sweet love you can lose on track of time
You love someone and now they're gone you can slowly lose your mind
So be thankful if you're somewhere with that very special girl
Without love we're all alone in this big busy world
There is no future there's no past when the present finds you blue
You're not living just existing when there's no one in love with you
Let's go searching for that certain one that sends your heart awhirl
Without love we're all alone in this big busy world
[ piano ]
What's the difference when you're lonely if it's night or if it's day
When nobody cares about you nothing turns out anyway
I'd much rather have a loved one than all the treasures in the world
Without love we're all alone in this big busy world
I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you
I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you
I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue
I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved but that was before I met you
[ guitar ]
I wanted to ramble and always be free but that was before I met you
I said that no woman can ever hold me but that was before I met you
They tell me I must reap just what I have sown but darling I hope that's not true
For once I made plans about living alone but that was before I met you
The night wind whispers softly why did you do her wrong
In the distance there's a coyote hound sounds like his love is gone
My heart is chilled by whipporwill as the train pulls out with you
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues
You can almost hear the blues in the rain that's pouring down
That lovely crackle to the fire seems to have a lonesome sound
As I walk the time away just listen to my shoes
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues
[ guitar ]
The rumble of the river flowing by my cabin door
I could swear I heard it tell me son she won't be back no more
As the night wind whines a coyote pines my heart cries out for you
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues
You can almost hear the blues...
If you think I want to please you if you're in my arms and squeeze you
Do anything but leave you you're right I need you real bad
If you think my heart is yearning for you to be returning
If you think the flame's still burning well you're right I need you real bad
I've never thought I'd love someone the way that I love you
But I'll admit this is if I'm really wantin' you
So baby let's on tarry I'm really in a hurry
For me and you to marry you're right I need you so bad
[ guitar - steel ]
You're the hand that waved goodbye you're the thought that makes me cry
You're the love that I had that went wrong
You're the lump that fills my throat and when I sing you're my blue note
Yes darling you're the sad in my songs
I've often wondered why when people sing sometimes they cry
I didn't know that love could go so wrong
Oh but now I've sadly learned mine's among those hearts that yearn
Yes darling you're the sad in my songs
[ piano ]
You're the ache that's in my heart you're the hours we spend apart
You're the sleep I never find all night long
You're the lips I used to kiss you're that girl that I still miss
Oh darling you're the sad in my songs
Month after month I have ridden this so best oh how tired and weary I have been
When I get home well it still be the same with us
You saw me off but will you see me in
When we get to the station will you be standing there
To put your arms around me once again
I know you've got my letters I've thought that you still care
You saw me off but will you see me in
My lonesome heart keeps saying just don't worry
You've missed me just as much as I've missed you
It won't be long but I'm in such a hurry
If you're not there I'll just be passing through
Yes mile after mile I have ridden this old bus oh how tired and weary I have been
When I get home well it still be the same with us
My show signs on the air at six and I get off at night
But I sit there each evening with more than records on my mind
You know that there's three hours when you're sure that you're free
You only need your radio and you can check on me
You can check on me fourteen thirty on your dial
No matter where you park with him I'm there to make you smile
You smile because you realize these records I might be
You can check on me and know how long it's safe to cheat
[ steel ]
I called your name and played our song so often on the air
I play each request for you and someone else to hear
Out there somewhere you'll hear these words and know I've seen the light
Have you found since you turned me down the one that you've been searching for
Are you glad that you made me sad for you know I vowed to love you ever more
What did you have in mind when you broke this heart of mine
And are you laughing in my face
Darling what can I do when you say we were through
You've left a wound time can't erase
[ steel ]
Tell me dear are you satisfied to be foot loose and fancy free
Is it power you want for the things that you have done
What you've gained I guess I'll never see
On the wings of a snow white dove God sends his own pure love
A sign from above on the wings of a dove
When troubles surround us and evils come the body grows weak the spirit grows numb
When heartaches beset us he'll never forget us
God sends down his love on the wings of a dove
On the wings...
When Noah had drifted on the flood many days he searched for land in various ways
Troubles he had some but he wasn't forgotten
God sent him his love on the wings of a dove
On the wings...
The sun goes down and the lights turn on to the gay white way you'll soon be gone
Where the music is sweet and the lights are dim
You have left me and gone like the wild wild wind
You'll never be mine for you're always wrong to you the wild wind will always be home
Oh if I were free like once I have been I'd leave you and gone like the wild wild wind
You're gone and I'm lonely I'll always be glad the taste of your love my lips once had
I've got my angel on my mind, that's why I'm walkin'
There's such an ache in this old heart, now I ain't talkin'
The little hand that held mine tight just waved goodbye tonight
I've got her sweet love on my mind, that's why I'm walkin'
With an old love on your mind life's not worth livin'
I breathe her name with every breath I'm breathin'
Why could I never see how much she meant to me
I've got her sweet love on my mind, that's why I'm walkin'
With an old love on your mind life's not worth livin'
I breathe her name with every breath I'm breathin'
Why could I never see how much she meant to me
I've got her sweet love on my mind, that's why I'm walkin'
Living below in this old sinful world hardly a comfort can afford
Striving alone to face temptations far where could I go but to the Lord
Where could I go oh where could I go seeking a refuge for my soul
Needing a friend to help me in the end where could I go but to the Lord
Life here is grand with friends I love so dear comfort I get from God's own word
Yet when I face those chilling hands of death where could I go but to the Lord
Where could I go...
Neighbors are kind I love them everyone comfort I get from God's own words
But when my soul needs 'em from up above where could I go but to the Lord
What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grieves to bear
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer
Oh what peace we often forfeit of what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer
Have we trials and temptations is there tropuble anywhere
If anyone could find the joy that true love brings a girl and boy
We could we could you and I
If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I
When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I
[ steel - guitar ]
When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could pray each night and thank the Lord that all is right
Here the labor is so hard and the workers they are tired
And our weary hearts're yearning for a rest
And I find we're getting anxious to be in that happy home
Where we'll reseive such peace and happiness
But wait a little longer please Jesus there are so many wandering out in sin
Just a little longer please Jesus a few more days to get our loved ones in
Family scattered here and there and thought Lord we love them dear
Maybe we can help them find a way
But if waiting is the cost dear ol' Lord then I'll be lost
And that's the only reason why we say
We may look into the skies and the tears will fill our eyes
For our burdened heart grows heavier with each day
First we cry oh Lord please come come and take your children home
I just found out where you go each and every night
Where the drinks are high and the lights are low and mortals match the lights
Where the music's loud but still the crowd drowns out every note
Of all the places I wish you were this one gets my vote
This one gets my vote of the last place you would be dear
But I looked everywhere so I know you had to be here
I found you now I should be glad but I guess I missed that boat
For of all the sad sights I have seen this one is my vote
[ guitar ]
My eyes would get my vote as the saddest and most misty
For I just saw a stranger kissed the lips that used to kiss me
Now here I stand with trembling hands my heart up in my throat
For the saddest heart that's ever be this one is my vote
It's three a.m. or after and I'm still awake
I thought I'd soon forget you when you went away
I wonder how much longer a man can live this way
It's three a.m. or after and I'm still awake
Last night my friends came over and they spoke of you
But that party didn't turn out like I meant it to
I found myself a corner until they went away
They've all been gone for hours and I'm still awake
[ steel ]
Too late I'd seen how much you really meant to me
I took your love for granted so you set me free
My world has built of memories of my mistakes
At three a.m. or after here I am awake
The Japany's moon is bright tonight and Tokio is full of life
Busy people everywhere but busy people just don't care
I wanna go stateside oh Lord I wanna go stateside
In and out the honky tonks but nothing's there I really want
Sat awhile and look around get up and leave and walk the town
I wanna go stateside oh Lord I wanna go stateside
[ guitar + piano ]
Giashy girls don't understand the lonely life of a sailor man
When his heart is far away to a girl in the USA
I wanna go stateside oh Lord I wanna go stateside
They laugh and say a man won't cry but I can't keep my blue eyes dry
Been away about two years I know I've cried a million tears
At first when I heard of some people who say that old time religion is real
I said I'll go down take a look at the crowd for it's just a weak mind that I feel
I walked up the steps and peeked then at the door the devil said don't you go in
I said it won't hurt me I just stepped inside and said as for back as I can
They sang like they meant it with all of their hearts I said it's emotion that's all
When they get down to pray I'll just get up and leave
I don't won't to be seen here at all
The preacher got up and he started to preach as he looked right straight down at me
He told everybody just how mean I was didn't talk like he thought so much of me
But something got a hold on me yes something got a hold on me
I went there to fight but oh my that night God certainly got a hold on me
I sat in my seat just a thinkin' it o'er and they all started to pray
The fire fell from heaven I knelt to the door I've prayed there as God had his way
At last now I know that I don't need to doubt I got an experience that night
I'll never forget it as long as I live I've found that salvation is right
On a long lonesome journey I am going oh my sweet little darling don't cry
For in shackles and chains they will take me to a prison to live till I die
And each night through the bars I will gaze at the stars
My dreams dear for you so in vain
A piece of stone I will use for my pillow while I'm sleeping in shackles and chains
[ steel ]
Put your arms through these bars once more darling
Let me kiss those sweet lips I love best
In sorrow they were my consolation and in sadness my heaven of rest
Well Billy Wayne was found this morning passed out in his car
In the back seat was a woman that he'd picked up in a bar
When his mother heard her only words were this must be a dream
Billy wasn't Billy couldn'd he's just seventeen
Push the panic button call the doctor call the preacher
Blame this generation blame the high school teacher
Walk the floor and wring your hands and use God's name in vein
Then look into your mind and find the ones who are to blame
Well Mary Anne came home tonight with teardrops in her eyes
And told her dad where she has been instead of telling lies
He said cruel things and called her names said he didn't understand
How a girl so young could be so dumb and get mixed up with a man
Push the panic button...
Remember that footsteps lift the path your children walk
And the words they hear you use make up the language that they'll walk
To a youngster's eyes there's no disguise he'll look inside your mind
And unconsciously they'll follow into the path you leave behind
Push the panic button...
I made myself a promise I knew I couldn't keep
I promised me I wouldn't cry tonight before I sleep
But to think of how you've hurt me and it's more than I can take
Now I know that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
Oh promises and hearts were made to break
Promises and hearts were made to be broken
But surely not mine at least I was a hopin'
But a hurtin' heart is something I can't learn to face
Now I see that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
Oh promises and hearts were made to break
[ ac.guitar ]
I promised all of my neighbors no more crying late at night
I promised them I'd go to sleep things are gonna be alright
Then once again it's mem'ry time and my heart begins to ache
Now they know that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
There's a place dear to me where I'm longing to be
With my friends at the old country church
There with mother we went and our Sundays were spent
With friends at the old country church
Precious years of memory oh what joy they bring to me
How I long once more to be with my friends at the old country church
[ organ ]
As a small country boy how my heart beat with joy
When I knelt in the old country church
And the Saviour above by his wonderful love
Saved my soul in the old country church
Jack was a lonely cowboy with a heart so brave and true
He learned to love a maiden with eyes of heavens on blue
They learned to love each other and planned their wedding day
Then a quarrel came between them and Jack he rode away
He joined a band of cowboys and tried to forget her name
But out on the lonely prairie she waits for him just the same
Your sweetheart waits for you Jack your sweetheart waits for you
Out on the lonely prairie where the skies are always blue
One night when work was finished just after close of day
A boy said sing a song Jack it'll drive your cares away
When he began his singing his mind still wandered back
To the only fair haired maiden still waitin' for her Jack
Well Jack woke up next morning just at the dawn of the day
He said a last forgiveness I pray I'm not too late
When he reached down next evening he found a new grave mound
His friends all sadly told him we've laid your loved one down
They said that she was dying she softly breathed your name
And that just with her last breath to tell you that you came
You've heard songs about the broken hearted couple who have fought
You've heard songs about romances and the teardrops they have brought
Many hearts are broken when the one day love has gone
If you feel the way I'm feeling would you listen to my song
When she walked along beside me and my heart was light and gay
I can see the tune's a changing lonely chords are here to stay
She filled my life with happy now the happiness is gone
Oh I'll try to soothe my sorrow in the verses of my song
[ piano ]
My heart's been broken not in two but in ten thousand ways
My nights are filled with loneliness and sadness through the days
I sit here by myself and cry and cry and cry and cry
Oh I guess I'll go on living cause I feel too blue tonight
I had a home out in Texas out where the Bluebonnet grew
I had the kindest old mother how happy we were just we two
Then one day the angels called her a debt we all have to pay
She'd call me close to her bedside these last few words to say
Son don't start drinking and gambling promise you'll always go straight
Ten years have passed since that promise the promise I thought I'd never break
Then I started drinking for past time and soon I was bad as them all
At cards I was king of the tables never dreaming that I'd ever fall
Then one night I sat at the table the big game was down to a draw
And I drew the one that would beat them but I turned it and here's what I saw
I saw the sad face of my mother and somehow she seemed to say
My son you have broken your promise you made me when I went away
I gave all my wins to a newsboy went straight home and burned all the cards
I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
And how it stuck to the tires after the summer rain
Will power made that old car go my roamin' mind told me that's so
How I wish that we were back on the road again
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Travelin' and a livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love being a free man
I can still recall the wheatfields near St. Paul
And in the mornin' we got caught robbin' from an old hen
Old MacDonald he made us work but then he paid us for what it was worth
Another tank of gas and back on the road again
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Travelin' and a livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love being a free man
I'll never forget that day we motored stately into big L.A.
The lights of the city put the settlin' down into my brain
It's only been a month or so that old car's a buggin' us to go
We gotta get away and get back on the road again
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Travelin' and a livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love being a free man
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Travelin' and a livin' off the land
Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh how I feel
As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hill
Do you recall when we parted the story to me you revealed
Yes you said you could live without love dear in your loveless mansion on the hill
I've waited all through the years love to give you a heart true and real
Cause I know that you're living in sorrow in your loveless mansion on the hill
The light shines bright from your window the trees stand so silent and still
Oh I know you're alone with your pride dear in your loveless mansion on the hill
I'm sitting here a thinking but wasting my time
I know that these old blues has got me down
I've never been a winner I've been a good loser
But lives like mine's what make this world go round
But lives like mine must have the destiny the rest of mine I just don't care to see
Should I be another man with no peace to be found
But lives like mine's what make this world go round
[ piano - guitar ]
I've tried to earn a fortune I've tried to start a home
But there's no gold and love has left me down
So finally I'm knowing there's no way to make the showing
But lives like mine's what make this world go round
I've got a sad sad story friend that I don't like to tell
I had a home and fam'ly when they locked me in this cell
I've been in here eighteen years a long long time I know
But time don't mean a thing to me cause I've got life to go
Well I went one night where the lights were bright just to see what I could see
I met up with the old friend who just thought the world of me
Well he brought me drinks and he took me to every honky tonk in town
Then words were said and now he's dead I just had to bring him down
Well it's been a long long time now since I've heard from my wife
I know I'd be there with her yet if I hadn't used the knife
Well I'll bet that little girl of mine don't realize or know
Her daddy's been here eighteen years and still got life to go
Well I'll bet there's not one man outside that's spent this long in jail
I'll be here in this prison till my body's just a shell
No I can't be free to go and see the ones that I love so
I've been in here eighteen years I've still got life to go
I was standing by my window yesterday morning
Without a thought a worry or of care
When I saw the postman coming up the pathway
With such a jolly face and jolly hair
He rang the bell and he whistled as he waited
He smiled and said good morning to you Jack
He little knew the sorrow that he brought me
When he handed me that letter edged in black
With trembling hands I took the letter from him I opened it and this is how it read
Come home my boy your dear old father needs you
Come home my boy your dear old mother's dead
I'm sorry that harsh words were ever spoken
You know I didn't mean them don't you Jack
My eyes are blurred my poor old hand is shaking
As I'm writing you this letter edged in black
The last words that your mother ever uttered
Was tell my boy I want him to come back
The angels bear me witness as I'm asking
I met a little girl in Knoxville a town we all know well
And every Sunday evening out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town
I thought of how she cheated me so I knocked that fair girl down
She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
Oh please my dear don't kill me here I'm not prepare to die
She never spoke another word I only beat her more
Until the ground around me with inner blood did flow
I took her by her golden curles and I dragged her round and round
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
Go down go down you Knoxville girl with the dark and rovin' eyes
Go down go down you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride
I started back to Knoxville got there about daylight
My mother she was worried and broke up in her pride
Sayin' dear son what have you done too bloody your clothes are
I told my attention mother I was bleeding at my nose
They took me down to Knoxville and they locked me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
And every day's the same since I met you
It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine
My happinsess is being close to you
And though the rains may fall skies will all be blue
And if I look close enough the sun will come shining through
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
Today and every day since I met you
[ dobro - piano ]
And though the rains may fall...
It's not me that you speak to when you're talking in your sleep
It's not me I can tell by all the secrets that you keep
It's not me you're always dreaming of oh how it hurts to know which your new love
It's not me that you're kissing someone else is on your mind
It's not me that you're missing cause I'm with you all the time
It's not me and it tears my soul apart to have you hold me while he is in your heart
[ guitar ]
(It's not me you're pretending when you say that I love you
It's not me I can tell by all the little things you do)
You're in love and any fool can see your heart is breaking for someone it's not me
I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you if it's the last thing I do
I'm a goin' lookin' in the night time I'm gonna find you
Any time will be the right time I'm gonna find you
I'm a gonna lookin' in the mornin' baby I'm givin' you a warnin'
Cause I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you
I'm gonna find you if it's the last thing I do
I'm a gonna lookin' on the mountain top I'm gonna find you
I'm a gonna lookin' until I'll drop I'm gonna find you
If you think as free as big blue hound (it's gotta be me just a trackin' you down)
I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you if it's the last thing I do
I'll keep a searchin' for your sweet face I'm gonna find
Here on earth or in out of space I'm gonna find you
I'm so tired of livin' alone (I'll even meet you in the twilight zone)
I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you I'm gonna find you if it's the last thing I do
I was born a good boy my folks just loved me so
They gave me every chance they could to make my life a gold
But I got in the wrong crowd and the wrong crowd led me on
I could have gone right just as easy as I went wrong
I went to the places where sin just waits for you
And I fell for the wrong things like sinners always do
Now here I sit in prison just waiting for the day
That they'll lead me throught that door and burn my life away
Oh mama please forgive me the shame is all my own
I could have gone right just as easy as I went wrong
[ piano ]
Help help help stamp out loneliness bring back the happy that we had before
Let's all get together tonight and begin by lining the ladies up next to the men
Then two by two let's march day and night
Till loneliness leaves us and goes out of sight
Help help help stamp out loneliness help help help bring back the happiness
Help help help stamp out loneliness bring back the happy that we had before
Go search every tavern and nightspot in town
Cause that's where the most of the lonely are found
Tell them the lonely are meeting tonight
Come join in the start of the world's favorite fight
Help help help stamp out loneliness...
Now somewhere in your town this very night
There's broken hearts wishing with all of their might
That someone might lead them back to love's door
So they can be happy like they were before
Help help help stamp out loneliness...
Have I told you lately that I love you could I tell you once again somehow
Have I told with all my heart and soul how I adore you well darling I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I said I dread each night alone when you're not with me
Well darling I'm telling you now
[ steel - piano ]
Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping that I dream each dream of you somehow
Have I told you lately that I love you well darling I'm telling you now
My world would end...
Don't be angry with me darling
If I fail to understand
All your little whims
And wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm dumb
I guess like any foolish man
And my head stays sorta foggy
'Cause you're mine
Well I recall the first time
That I flirted with you dear
When I jokingly said
Come and be my bride
Now that time has turned the pages
It's the sweetest joke on earth
That I have you here
Forever by my side
Maybe someday you're gonna hurt me
I've been hurt in love before
Only God can know
And time alone will tell
But in the mean time I'll keep loving you
With all my heart and soul
And pray God to let it last
If it's his will
So don't be angry with me darling
If I fail to understand
All your little whims
And wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm dumb
I guess like any foolish man
And my head stays sorta foggy
By our house runs the highway only forty feet away
In the driveway sits the car that I could used to get away
Up the sidewalk comes the reason I'm still hanging on
The little boy that makes the difference between going and really gone
You tell me it's all over there's no reason I should stay
You've already found another and I'm only in your way
But past the mailbox walks the reason I'm still hanging on
The little boy that makes the difference between going and really gone
Here comes six years of difference between going and really gone
Sixty pounds of reasons just walk across the lawn
Into the arms of his daddy no I can't do him wrong
For I help create the difference between going and really gone
In a little country village not very far away
There lived a rich but aged man whose hair was turning gray
He had three sons three only ones both Jack and Tom were sly
But Ted was honest as could be he would not tell a lie
The brothers tried to ruin Ted before the old man's eyes
At last the plot begin its work till Ted was much despised
The father then said begone you're heartless to the core
Then the black's sheeps words they came just a ringing thru the door
Don't be angry with me dad don't drive me from your door
I know that I've been wayward but I won't be anymore
Just give me one more chance and put me to the test
You'll find the black sheep loves his dad for better than the rest
Year by year sped quickly by the father now grown old
He called to them both Jack and Tom and gave them all his gold
I only need a little room a place at your fireside
One night on Jacks' returning home he brought with him a bride
The three began to hate the father more and more each day
At last he heard the three declare why the old fool's in our way
They then agreed to send him to the poorhouse that was near
Then like a flash the black sheep's words came ringing in his ear
A wagon drives up to the door it is the poorhouse band
The brothers pointed to their dad right there is your man
Then a manly form appeared came rushin' through the crowd
Stop this you brutes the lad replied it shall not be allowed
You took the old man's property and all that he could save
You've even sold the little lot containing mother's grave
I am his son but not your kin from now till judgement day
The father clasped the black sheep's hand and they all heard him say
Don't be angry with me son I know I drove you from my door
I know that I've been foolish lad I've repented o'er and o'er
I should have given you my gold for you have stood the test
You can see the ad in the morning paper this house for sale the owener's leaving town
He won't need it any longer he'll like the price you'll give
For the big house on the corner where love used to live
She was all I had all I ever wanted but now she's gone so I can't stay in town
I'm the lonely man that's selling for most any price you'll give
For the big house on the corner where love used to live
This happy couple used to live there until the winds of sorrow left it alone and bare
I'm the lonely man that's selling for most any price you'll give
For the big house on the corner where love used to live
That whiskey and his wild wreckless way put my young daddy in an early grave
So many nights my mama cried and then I'd hear her pray
She'd asked the Lord to send her better days better days for mama better days
Then sister had to marry at fourteen destroyed what was left of mama's dreams
She cried but then I heard her say sometimes the best she'd go astray
That night she knelt and pray for better days better days for mama better days
She cried a lot that day that I left home I said don't worry I know right from wrong
Although I tried my best somehow four grey walls surround me now
And again my mama prays for better days better days for mama better days
Mister warden many many thanks to you to let me come here for the flowers to
Although my tears fall on her grave I think she's found her rest in place
At last the Lord send mama better days better days for mama better days
I tried to give you all the love there is in me
The more I tried the more we disagreed
I'd break my heart or be a slave or die for you
Still the best I have is not enough for you
Sometimes I think that I should run away and hide
So you can't see how much this heart of mine has died
Oh you only want me when there's nothing else to do
And the best I have is not enough for you
I know that I'm a fool but I can't help myself
And there's something in your heart that I can't seem to melt
Oh you show me love but then you try to keep me blue
And the best I have is not enough for you
[ steel ]
It hurts down deep when angry words are spoken
Because of this countless tears are shed
Much too often tender hearts are broken
When hasty thoughtless angry words are said
As you know I stormed out of the house again this mornin'
I slammed the door and didn't even take your usual kiss
Well angry words can make us do things without a warnin'
I could hardly wait to get back home to tell you this
First of all you're the reason for my living
You've stuck with me when things were at their worst
We've got the home the kids and the joy they're giving
But over all you always will come first
We found out a long ago this life's no paradise
We're not angels or else we'd all have wings
All together now everybody drink (everybody drink)
All together now everybody think (everybody think)
Think of all those sweet words that turned out to be just lies
All together now everybody cry and cry cry all together now everybody cry
I once dealt in laughter wearing love's happy face
But now I'm wearin' out my heartaches in this crowded place
I lost her love but I'm still clinging to her memory
But I guess there's lots of people here like me
All together now everybody drink...
[ guitar ]
Come on friends let's gather round and sing some real sad songs
Let's fill up our cups of grape and have a sing along
Everybody join in make the rafters ring with pain
When the grape runs low we'll fill our cups again
All together now...
I have the invitation that you sent me
You wanted me to see you change your name
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
But dear, I hope you're happy just the same
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
That should be ringing now for you and me
And down the aisle with someone else you're walking
Those wedding bells will never ring for me
I planned a little cottage in the valley
I even bought a little band of gold
I thought someday I'd place it on your finger
But now the future looks so dark and cold
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
I can hear the children laughing now with glee
I walk alone and hang my head in sorrow
Those wedding bells will never ring for me
I fancy that I see a bunch of roses
A blossom from an orange tree in your hair
While the organ plays I'll love you truly
Please let me pretend that I was there
Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
Ever since the day you set me free
I knew someday that you would wed another
Waterloo, Waterloo, where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day, everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo
Now ol' Adam was the first in history
With an apple he was tempted and deceived
Just for spite the devil made him take a bite
And that's where ol' Adam met his Waterloo
Waterloo, Waterloo, where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day, everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo
Little General Napoleon of France
Tried to conquer the world but lost his pants
Met defeat known as Bonaparte's retreat
And that's when Napoleon met his Waterloo
Waterloo, Waterloo, where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day, everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his Waterloo
Now a feller who's darling proved untrue
Took her life but he lost his too
Now he swings where the little birdie sings
And that's where Tom Dooley met his Waterloo
Waterloo, Waterloo, where will you meet your Waterloo?
Every puppy has his day, everybody has to pay
When I was young and foolish and always on the go
I met up with this beauty out on the western coast
I learned that she was married and that her name was Dawn
But to know that she was married didn't send me home
We'd lead in secred places all along the bay
I realized it wasn't right for man to live that way
We lived high on his money as though it was our own
And cared not how it broke his heart to wait for Dawn till dawn
[ dobro ]
When he ran out of money his wife ran out of time
So that's when she divorced him at last she was all mine
But I've worked long for hours so far into the night
To buy Dawn's pretty dresses so short and oh so tight
For weeks now I've been searching for a work with better pay
At last a thousand that she spend I don't see how I'll pay
It must be time for reaping the wild seeds that I've sown
At three a.m. I'm weeping as I wait for Dawn till dawn
Tonight when I get through at work I'll just head straight on home
I'll fix a bite and try to eat then I'll pick up the phone
I'll try to find out where she went I must know how she's been
That's the thoughts of a lonely lonely man
The mind of a lonely man when he's alone like me
All day he counts mistakes he's made all night he counts bad dreams
I meant to treat my darling right somehow I filled my plans
That's the thoughts of a lonely lonely man
Tomorrow I'll wake up at six I'll rise without a groan
Reachin' at work by eight o'clock just like there's nothing wrong
If I'll work hard enough maybe the work will help me stand
All these thoughts of a lonely lonely man
I'm beggin' her my heart keeps smart but it makes sence to me
Being smart won't help me much if she don't come back to me
Oh what I'd give to see her face or touch her gentle hand
That's the thoughts of a lonely lonely man
Angray words were spoken and I left my baby in a cloud of gloom
Got into my car and drove around until I spurted this saloon
Came inside and bought a drink then I saw you and felt a burning glow
Got the urge to hold you tight but if I try refuse me tell me know
Step aside if I try to get near you lock your heart if I start making time
Walk away if I say that I need you step aside if I step out of line
[ steel ]
Bitter is my feeling for my baby and the things she said so cruel
Half of me says cheat on her but part of me says stop don't be a fool
Don't let me get close to you cause if I do I won't be very strong
Save me from my conscience and keep me from being sorry later on
Step aside if I try...
One day the train was passin' I caught it crawlin' by
To look this old world over under God's blue sky
My darling stood there weeping as I was looking back
I kissed my baby cryin' in the smoke along the track
Goodbye so long until I come back home you'll be my dream
Goodbye so long there's lots of places that I've never seen
I'll always be a drifter but I'll be driftin' back
To where I left you cryin' in the smoke along the track
I like to keep on goin' it helps me when I'm blue
I get the urge to travel that's all I want to do
I know I just can't settle down because I like to roam
And when I hear that whistle blow I've gotta move along
Goodbye so long there's something down the track keeps calling me
Goodbye so long I guess that's just the way I'll always be
So when I get that feeling don't try to hold me back
I'll only leave you cryin' in the smoke along the track
I know my baby loves me I love my baby too
But she don't understand me when I'm feeling blue
And when I hear that whistle blow I hurry home and pack
And leave my baby cryin' in the smoke along the track
Goodbye so long I hate to leave you but I've gotta go
Goodbye so long it's coming now just heard that whistle blow
It'll be here in a minute you'll wave and I'll look back
That face in the mirror across the bar from me
Keeps staring back as if to say is this where you should be
But drinking helps forget her though I won't forget her long
And tomorrow when I'm sober she'll still be gone
All around me are the losers I guess that's why I'm here
They don't mind my loneliness no they're all used to tears
What hurts me most of all is I could cry from now on
And she won't even know it she'll still be gone
I could say forgive me with each breath I take but in vain
When you take love and kill it you can't bring it to life again
I can sit here on this barstool until my body turns to stone
But she won't even know it she'll still be gone
I'm always second choice I'm never first with you
Oh how it hurts to see you out with someone new
But I'll wait around while you play around and have your fun
Maybe someday you'll make second choice your one and only one
Just when I think I'm number one I find I'm number two
I feel the pain and hide the hurt that I go through
I live on dreams my precious dreams that never will come true
How long will I be second choice and love you like I do
[ steel ]
Though second choice is hard to take I'll never change sweetheart
I'll always be around to play the loser's part
I'll swallow pride and lock inside the heartaches that I feel
How long will I be second choice with the love so real
I blew into Dallas feelin' kinda low
Thought I'd make me a bit of change at the Rodeo
Heard the line boss sayin', ?You on'ry cowpokes
Fifteen bales to any man who can ride Showboat
Who can ride Showboat?
Showboat, you old cuss
I'm gonna ride you or I'll bust
Hold the rein, watch the chain
Turn him loose, that cayuse, I'm gonna ride
They put me in the saddle, rein here in my hand
Then I saw her sittin' there and watchin' from the stand
She was kinda pretty, blond with big blue eyes
I could see it hurt her so to see me have to ride
See me have to ride
Showboat, you old cuss
I'm gonna ride you or I'll bust
Hold the reins, watch the chain
Turn him loose that cayuse, I'm gonna ride
He bugged me once from runnin' then he looked me in the eye
I slid down around his neck and reachin' for the sky
Then he sent me flyin' like a little bird
Lord, I think when I came down, I eat ten pounds of dirt
Eat ten pounds of dirt
Showboat, you old cuss
You done fixed me up much worse
Hold the rein, ain't it a shame
That cayuse done throw me a loose and he broke my leg
I woke up in the general, feelin' kinda hurt
Till I found that blue eyed blond turned out to be my nurse
She fixed me up with patches and love I thought was free
'Til she said, ?Now cowboy you're gonna marry me
Gonna marry me?
Showboat, you old cuss
You done fixed me up much worse
Hold the rein, ain't it a shame
In the year of forty three mama finished feedin' me
And quickly rushed off to her job at Woorden's Backmill
But at fourth on Monroe's street a faillin' hearts stopped at willin' feet
And mama gave up the breath of life in the town of Nashville
Daddy was in the county jail so my older sister Nell
Took a job at a tavern that some folks called the Trashmill
And when the welfare agency offered help and smiled at me
No thanks but we'll get by in this town of Nashville
As a kid I went to school hurt stood high on a tavern stool
A listenin' to the songs on the jukebox at the Trashmill
And that hurtin' in them sad old songs settled deep in a poor boy's bones
And I vowed I'll someday pick and sing in Nashville
So my older sister Nell like a true blue southern bell
Bought me a second handed guitar from the Nashville goodwill
Heaven would smile and bells would ring when I touched those shiny strings
And I was the richest poor boy in the town of Nashville
[ piano ]
There's a chill down in my bones yes it's my time to go on
And I'm sure the good Lord knows the way I feel
So they're callin' me a star I can't forget about that first guitar
Oh Mary, don't you weep for me
Oh Mary, just you wait for me
The battle will soon be over
Oh Mary, don't you weep
Jimmy sent a letter to his bride back home
For three long years now he's been gone
He left her cryin' on her wedding day
And went to fight the battle of the Blue and Gray
Oh Mary, don't you weep for me
Oh Mary, just you wait for me
The war's gonna soon be over
Oh Mary, don't you weep
Mary's young heart was filled with joy
When she got the letter from her soldier boy
His words of love made her heart beat fast
But little did she know it would be the last
Oh Mary, don't you weep for me
Oh Mary, just you wait for me
The battle will soon be over
Oh Mary, don't you weep
On that same day, Atlanta burned down
Her soldier boy, he fell to the ground
Now Mary sits alone by the candle light
And reads his letter over every night
Oh Mary, don't you weep for me
Oh Mary, just you wait for me
The war's gonna soon be over
Oh Mary, don't you weep
Oh Mary, don't you weep for me
Oh Mary, just you wait for me
The battle's gonna soon be over
Oh Mary, don't you weep
Oh Mary, don't you weep
I walked by your house last night saw you through your window
In the arms of someone else now my heart's hurtin' so
I'll just call to send my last goodbye
I'll drop by to say goodbye but a man must hide to cry
There's no need left for hoping that our love could ever be
So why come by and let you see how much you're hurting me
I love you I'd forgive you I guess that's one reason why
I can't come by to say goodbye cause a man must hide to cry
[ steel ]
I'll turn the lights down low tonight cover up my window
I'll try to lock the world outside no one must ever know
Until I'm feeling better they mustn't see my tear dimmed eyes
I'll drop by to say goodbye but a man must hide to cry
I got a feelin' called the blues oh Lord since my baby's said goodbye
Oh well I don't know what I'll do all I do is sit and cry oh Lord
That last long day she said goodbye well Lord I thought I would die
She'll do me she'll do you she's got that kinda lovin'
Lord I love to hear her when she calls me sweet daddy
Such a beautiful dream I hate to think it all over I've lost my heart it seems
I've grown so used to you somehow well I'm nobody's sugar daddy now
And I'm lonesome I got the lovesick blues
I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal that's what's the matter with me
I'm in love I'm in love with a beautiful gal but she don't care about me
Lord I tried and tried to keep her satisfied but she just wouldn't stay
So now that she is leavin' this is all that I can say
If you hear some footsteps walking close behind you in the night
And you look around and no one do you see
If you feel someone is watching you and there's no one in sight
Have no fear it's only lonely me
It's only lonely me I want you back again
So I'll send my memory to haunt you now and then
It follows you around wherever you may be
The ghost of love that's gone it's only lonely me
[ ac.guitar ]
If sometimes you have the feeling there is something you forgot
Though you try you can't remember what it was
That's my mem'ry only trying to remind you like as not
It was me that you forgot to love
It's only lonely me...
If this house could talk oh what a story although it's only made of wood and stone
How it could brag about its days of glory when it almost became a happy home
I just came back in town to sign the papers the house is sold now it's no longer mine
And since the place I built for you once meant so much to me
Thought I'd drop by and see it one more time
I parked the car got out and looked it over
The unkept lawn now seemed so strange to me
That rambling rose that I'd set out with tender care had died
And weeds grow now where flowers used to be
I walked up close looked through the picture window
The past was oh so clear as I looked through
I listened close and almost heard those tender words of love
As I sat by the fireside with you
I'm not in your town to stay said a lady old and gray
To the warden of a penitentiary
I'm not in your town to stay and I'll soon be on my way
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
Yes warden you know I want my baby out of jail
I've tried to raise baby right I prayed both day and night
That he'd never follow footsteps of his dad
I have searched both far and wide I had feared that he had died
So it's good to find my baby here in jail
Yes warden I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
It's been ten long years today since my husband passed away
He was found beneath the snow so cold and white
I made a vow to keep his chain his gold watch and diamond ring
Oh the county laid my husband in the ground
Yes warden the county laid my husband in the ground
I will pawn to you his watch I will pawn to you his chain
I will pawn to you my husband's diamond ring
I will wash all your clothes or I'll scrub all your floors
If that would get my baby out of jail
Yes warden you know I want my baby out of jail
Then we heard the warden say to this lady so old and gray
I will bring your darling boy to your side
Two iron gates swung wide apart she held her darling to her heart
She kissed her baby boy and then she died
I was born in Macon Georgia they kept my dad in the Macon jail
Dad said son if you keep your hands clean
You won't hear them bloodhounds on your trail
But I fell in with bad companions we robbed a man in Tennessee
The sheriff caught me way up in Nashville they locked me up and threw away the key
I washed my hands in muddy water washed my hands but they didn't come clean
Tried to do like daddy told me but I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream
I asked the jailor when's my time up he said son we won't forget
And if you try to keep your hands clean we may make a good man of you yet
I couldn't wait to do my sentence I broke out of the Nashville jail
I just crossed the line of Georgia and I can hear them bloodhounds on my trail
I was ridin' No 9 headin' south from Caroline
I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow
Got in trouble had to roam I left my friends and left my home
I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow
Just a kid acting smart I went and broke my darling's heart
I guess I was too young to know
They took me off to Georgia Main they locked me to a ball and chain
I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow
[ fiddle ]
All alone I bear the shame I'm a number not a name
I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow
All I do is sit and cry when that evening train goes by
I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow
I'll be locked here in this cell until my body's just a shell
And my hair turns whiter than snow
I'll never see that gal of mine Lord I'm in Georgia doing time
I never dreamed I'd have a cryin' time it seemed to me our love would turn out fine
I've heard you still remember and say we should have fun
But I guess you'll never know the harm you've done
You're not here to watch my hair turn gray you don't see the tears I brush away
You've never heard me cry oh Lord don't let me see the dawn
And so you'll never know the harm you've done
[ piano ]
I tried to smile when you told me goodbye I don't suppose you've ever seen me cry
In your world skies are sunny in mine there is no sun
I guess you'll never know the harm you've done
You'll be leavin' me to look for greener pastures it really isn't love that you are after
You would climb the highest hill if you thought you'd find a thrill
And the greener pastures on the other side
I guess I'll be the next to fall in line with all the broken hearts you've left behind
I can tell the thrill is gone and you'll soon be movin' on
You've got greener pastures on your mind
You'll be leavin' me...
I don't know why I thought that I could win I've seen you do it time and time again
You will trade a love that's true for a thrill from someone new
And those greener pastures win again
You'll be leavin' me...
I won't be home anymore I'll be so far away
In my lonely prison cell until my dying day
Friend I don't want to bore ye or waste much of your day
But I've got a sad story I'd like to tell about the life that just wasted away
I had a good home and a family one time and riches of diamonds and jewels
But one night out on a party my friends I broke one of God's golden rules
Thy shall not kill was deep in my heart that day
But drinking too much driving too fast I took three lives away
So then I was trialed and convicted and the judge said so mercy on me
He said we was makin' an example so I was sent in this penitentary
Ninety-mine years was my sentence never no more will I roam
Nover to be with my loved ones so dear no place but this cell to call home
I'm alone in my shame and this is writen deep in my soul
For the price I must pay for driking and driving can't be paid in silver and gold
I can't see my little darling or watch my babies at play
In the West Virginia hills there must be ten thousand still
And they found the biggest one outside of Blue Field
A little peaceful country town nothing else for miles around
I saw whiskey run like water down through Blue Field
My trouble started on that Thursday afternoon
The sheriff told me federal men will be here soon
He said we've come up with a plan to catch Blue Field's slickest man
And we will as sure as I'm the sheriff of Blue Field
On a Wednesday I had ninety jars to cap didn't think that had the time to set a trap
In the brush I heard a sound and I swiftly hit the ground
What I shot and sent them runnin' back to Blue Field
Not a soul suspected me I was the sheriff's deputy
I make whiskey but God knows I'd never killed
I didn't know he was that close when I let my shotgun go
But I found I killed my friend the sheriff of Blue Field
I recall how my mama and my girl friend cried
When they locked me for oh no what a trial
It's my last night in this cell the last story I would tell
And I sit that road dreamin' about Blue Field
A story 'bout a pal of mine
Who worked down near the Georgia Line
He's a D.J. in a little country station
Everybody loved him dear
'Cause he played what they liked to hear
He built himself a quite a reputation
At record hops he stayed out late
And his mom would always wait
To see if he had made it home alive
She warned against his loss of sleep
And driving fast in that old heap
And that he had to be at work by five
B.J. the D.J. you're living much too fast
And if you don't change your ways
Don't see how you can last
Every morning just past four
From the driveway he would roar
Overslept and he was late again
Then at breakneck speed he'd drive
To sign the station on at five
He had lots of records he must spin
His mom sits by the radio
Until his voice told her hello
She knew then that he made it there alright
Then she'd say a little prayer
Keep him safe for he was there
And she'd wait up for him again tonight
Then one cold and rainy morn
All four tires were badly worn
But still he screeched off just as fast this time
B.J. had a lot of nerve
But he completely missed the curve
And he signed off down near the Georgia Line
Mom sat by the radio
The voice she heard she didn't know
B.J.'d never been this late before
But with the road so bad and all
She'd wait a while before she called
And then she heard the knock upon the door
B.J. the D.J. only twenty-four
A wreck at ninety miles an hour
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ALBUMS
- Smoke Along the Track
- Life to Go
- Don't Be Angry
- A Wound Time Can't Erase
- Waterloo
- Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
- Life of a Poor Boy
- Mary Don't You Weep
- Leona
- Blues Plus Booze (Means I Lose)
- Here's to Hank
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Lovesick Blues
- Cold, Cold Heart
- I Can't Help It
- (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- You Win Again
- Mansion on the Hill
- Let's Turn Back the Years
- I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
- Tragic Romance
- Red River Valley
- Shackles and Chains
- Knoxville Girl
- Ode to Cowboy Jack
- Black Sheep
- Mother the Queen of My Heart
- Soldier's Last Letter
- Letter Edged in Black
- Wanderin' Boy's Last Letter
- Knock Off Your Naggin'
- A Broken Heart, A Wedding Band
- Don't Be Angry
- (You're Right) I Need You Real Bad
- Tears On Her Bridal Bouquet
- Grieving In My Heart
- Gettin' older
- I Can't Go On Living This Way
- She's A Honky-Tonk Girl
- Why I'm Walkin'
- Life To Go
- Misery Known As Heartache
- Smoke Along The Track
- Waterloo
- Ward Of Broken Hearts
- Run
- Uncle Sam And Big John Bull
- Mary Don't You Weep
- Man Has Cried
- Let's Call It A Day
- The Carpet On The Floor
- Black Sheep
- Why I'm Walkin'
- Life To Go
- Just A Rollin' Stone
- Life Of A Poor Boy
- Igmoo (The Pride Of South Central High)
- Uncle Sam And Big John Bull
- Thirty Links Of Chain
- Sixteen fathoms
- A Little Guy Called Joe
- Waterloo
- Why I'm Walkin'
- A Little Guy Named Joe
- A Wound Time Can't Erase
- Don't Be Angry
- I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water
- I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal
- Full Moon Empty Pockets
- There's No Short Cuts (To Get Me Over You)
- Breaking Up Breakdown
- Let the Sun Shine on the People
- Tears on Her Bridal Bouquet
- I'm Gonna Find You
- I Need You Real Bad
- A Broken Heart, a Wedding Band
- Grieving in My Heart
- Misery Known as Heartache
- Wedding Bells for You and Him
- Knock Off Your Naggin'
- Waterloo
- Smoke Along the Track
- Life to Go
- Run
- The Carpet on the Floor
- Man Has Cried
- Uncle Sam and Big John Bull
- Marry Don't You Weep
- Ward of Broken Hearts
- Why I'm Walkin'
- Let's Call It a Day
- Black Sheep
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Stonewall Jackson Don't Be Angry
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- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
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Stonewall Jackson and JEB Stuart, 1861
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- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com
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General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 18304
- author: Zappiss
The Faith of Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 9:47
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated soldiers/generals of the American Civil War. I pieced this together with clips from the movie "Gods & Generals" and the documentary on Jackson found on that DVD.
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A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated soldiers/generals of the American Civil War. I pieced this together with clips from the movie "Gods & Generals" and the documentary on Jackson found on that DVD.
- published: 22 Jun 2007
- views: 77727
- author: SJGrantski
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson 1959.wmv
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" means : 1) The battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815. 2) Any decisive or crushing defeat. The meaning of "Waterloo" here refers to the fact that we all must meet our own ending or demise. Stonewall Jackson performed WATERLOO on Dick Clark's AMERICAN BANDSTAND on Tuesday- October 27, 1959. The song first hit the charts on May 25, 1959, stayed there for 16 weeks, & peaked at #4.
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WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" means : 1) The battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815. 2) Any decisive or crushing defeat. The meaning of "Waterloo" here refers to the fact that we all must meet our own ending or demise. Stonewall Jackson performed WATERLOO on Dick Clark's AMERICAN BANDSTAND on Tuesday- October 27, 1959. The song first hit the charts on May 25, 1959, stayed there for 16 weeks, & peaked at #4.
- published: 01 Mar 2010
- views: 49073
- author: MrRJDB1969
DON'T BE ANGRY by STONEWALL JACKSON
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
Don't Be Angry by Stonewall Jackson 1958
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Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 22 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination. As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country."The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. Guys like Stonewall Jackson are why the opry is as big as it is. Good for you.
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Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination. As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country."The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. Guys like Stonewall Jackson are why the opry is as big as it is. Good for you.
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 34197
- author: blizard7500
Stonewall Jackson "Herman Schwartz"
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- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
A funny name for a funny tune. It was Stonewall's last charted song, a #41 hit in 1973.
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A funny name for a funny tune. It was Stonewall's last charted song, a #41 hit in 1973.
- published: 22 Jun 2009
- views: 13275
- author: wilburscott
Stonewall Jackson-Smoke Along The Track
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson singing "Smoke Along The Track"
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Stonewall Jackson singing "Smoke Along The Track"
- published: 15 Apr 2010
- views: 55849
- author: Alabamon
General Stonewall Jackson "Gods & Generals" - LifeLessons from Movies
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool Place of birth Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Place of death Guinea Station, Virginia Place of burial Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia Allegiance United States Army Confederate States Army Years of service 184651 (USA) 186163 (CSA) Rank Major (USA) Lieutenant General Commands held Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Battles/wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Great Train Raid of 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) Romney Expedition Valley Campaign Battle of Kernstown Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester (1862) Battle of Port Republic Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines' Mill Battle of Savage's Station Battle of White Oak Swamp Battle of Malvern Hill Northern Virginia Campaign Battle of Cedar Mountain First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Manassas Station Ops. Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) Battle of Chantilly Maryland Campaign Battle of Harpers Ferry Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville † Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[1] May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the ...
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool Place of birth Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Place of death Guinea Station, Virginia Place of burial Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia Allegiance United States Army Confederate States Army Years of service 184651 (USA) 186163 (CSA) Rank Major (USA) Lieutenant General Commands held Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Battles/wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Great Train Raid of 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) Romney Expedition Valley Campaign Battle of Kernstown Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester (1862) Battle of Port Republic Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines' Mill Battle of Savage's Station Battle of White Oak Swamp Battle of Malvern Hill Northern Virginia Campaign Battle of Cedar Mountain First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Manassas Station Ops. Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) Battle of Chantilly Maryland Campaign Battle of Harpers Ferry Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville † Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[1] May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the ...
- published: 30 Jan 2010
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- author: decidecommitsucceed
STONEWALL JACKSON-WEDDING BELLS.wmv
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- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mom moved the family to South Georgia. Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. [edit] Recording career After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition. His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones, "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their fate. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom ...
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Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mom moved the family to South Georgia. Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. [edit] Recording career After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition. His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones, "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their fate. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom ...
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 22027
- author: oldtexasmusic
Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Stonewall Jackson I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
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Black Sheep - Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a string of Top Ten country hits and becoming a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry with a pleading voice that seemed to reflect his hard, often abusive upbringing on a south Georgia dirt farm. He was named after the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom he was related according to family legend. When he was ten he traded his bike for a guitar and began making up songs. Some of his later hits, such as "Don't Be Angry," were written very early in his creative life. Jackson began singing professionally in the mid-'50s, moving to Nashville in 1956. Within a few days of his arrival he delivered an unsolicited demonstration recording to the offices of the Acuff-Rose publishing house, and executive Wesley Rose heard his recorded singing and set up an audition for Jackson at the Grand Ole Opry. He became the first entertainer to join the Opry without a recording contract, performing first on the Opry's Friday Night Frolics before his official debut. Backed by Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, he proved so popular that the audience demanded four encores. Eventually Jackson hit the road with Tubb, who became a mentor to the young singer and songwriter. By early 1957, Jackson had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and cut his first record, "Don't Be Angry." Jackson followed up with a cover of George Jones' "Life to Go," which peaked at number two in early 1959. The ...
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Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a string of Top Ten country hits and becoming a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry with a pleading voice that seemed to reflect his hard, often abusive upbringing on a south Georgia dirt farm. He was named after the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom he was related according to family legend. When he was ten he traded his bike for a guitar and began making up songs. Some of his later hits, such as "Don't Be Angry," were written very early in his creative life. Jackson began singing professionally in the mid-'50s, moving to Nashville in 1956. Within a few days of his arrival he delivered an unsolicited demonstration recording to the offices of the Acuff-Rose publishing house, and executive Wesley Rose heard his recorded singing and set up an audition for Jackson at the Grand Ole Opry. He became the first entertainer to join the Opry without a recording contract, performing first on the Opry's Friday Night Frolics before his official debut. Backed by Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, he proved so popular that the audience demanded four encores. Eventually Jackson hit the road with Tubb, who became a mentor to the young singer and songwriter. By early 1957, Jackson had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and cut his first record, "Don't Be Angry." Jackson followed up with a cover of George Jones' "Life to Go," which peaked at number two in early 1959. The ...
- published: 29 Dec 2010
- views: 14049
- author: fatjud1
Stonewall Jackson That's Why I'm Walkin
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Classic Stonewall
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Stonewall Jackson's Way
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's website.
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Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's website.
- published: 22 Oct 2008
- views: 75013
- author: mavzer
Stonewall Jackson - Big House On the Corner
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
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Stonewall Jackson - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
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- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was George. The Great Stonewall Jackson does it just fine though.
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Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was George. The Great Stonewall Jackson does it just fine though.
- published: 15 Jan 2010
- views: 10337
- author: Tom Page
Stonewall Jackson - Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo rateyourmusic.com www.musicstack.com
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Me and You and a Dog Named Boo rateyourmusic.com www.musicstack.com
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 17225
- author: RADOVICHY
BJ The DJ by Stonewall Jackson & Friends
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) ============================================= ============================================= ============================================= Hugh X Lewis Vernon Oxford Bill Anderson Jim Ed Brown John Conlee Erin Hay Pete Fisher Lonnie Ratliff Gary Bradshaw Little Jimmy Dickens Connie Smith Porter Wagoner Charlie Daniels Ray Pillow Life To Go A Wound Time Can't Erase I got my angel on my mind That's why I'm walking Crazy Heart Demon Dust
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www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) ============================================= ============================================= ============================================= Hugh X Lewis Vernon Oxford Bill Anderson Jim Ed Brown John Conlee Erin Hay Pete Fisher Lonnie Ratliff Gary Bradshaw Little Jimmy Dickens Connie Smith Porter Wagoner Charlie Daniels Ray Pillow Life To Go A Wound Time Can't Erase I got my angel on my mind That's why I'm walking Crazy Heart Demon Dust
- published: 17 Apr 2010
- views: 14693
- author: nashvilleshowcase
Stonewall Jackson "The Pint Of No Return"
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- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
I've been looking for Stonewall's 1979 "Bad Ass" album for some time. And now that I found it, here's one of the great drinkin' songs off of it! Enjoy!
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I've been looking for Stonewall's 1979 "Bad Ass" album for some time. And now that I found it, here's one of the great drinkin' songs off of it! Enjoy!
- published: 11 Jul 2010
- views: 13894
- author: wilburscott
Stonewall Jacksons Way
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- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Created in honor of Confederate General Thomas "STONEWALL" Jackson, who gave his life fighting for what he believed in.
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Created in honor of Confederate General Thomas "STONEWALL" Jackson, who gave his life fighting for what he believed in.
- published: 20 Apr 2009
- views: 7247
- author: AlabamaLadyRebel
Stone Wall Jackson
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
Stone Wall Jackson in the War of Northern Aggression.
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Stone Wall Jackson in the War of Northern Aggression.
- published: 05 Jan 2010
- views: 2992
- author: gubment0cheese
stonewall Jackson I washed my hand in muddy water
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
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WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson 1959.wmv
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WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" means : 1) The battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815. 2) Any decisive or crushing defeat. The meaning of "Waterloo" here refers to the fact that we all must meet our own ending or demise. Stonewall Jackson performed WATERLOO on Dick Clark's AMERICAN BANDSTAND on Tuesday- October 27, 1959. The song first hit the charts on May 25, 1959, stayed there for 16 weeks, & peaked at #4.
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WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" means : 1) The battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815. 2) Any decisive or crushing defeat. The meaning of "Waterloo" here refers to the fact that we all must meet our own ending or demise. Stonewall Jackson performed WATERLOO on Dick Clark's AMERICAN BANDSTAND on Tuesday- October 27, 1959. The song first hit the charts on May 25, 1959, stayed there for 16 weeks, & peaked at #4.
- published: 01 Mar 2010
- views: 47766
- author: MrRJDB1969
The Faith of Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 9:47
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated soldiers/generals of the American Civil War. I pieced this together with clips from the movie "Gods & Generals" and the documentary on Jackson found on that DVD.
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A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated soldiers/generals of the American Civil War. I pieced this together with clips from the movie "Gods & Generals" and the documentary on Jackson found on that DVD.
- published: 22 Jun 2007
- views: 77308
- author: SJGrantski
Stonewall Jackson Don't Be Angry
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- Duration: 2:45
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
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Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination. As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country."The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. Guys like Stonewall Jackson are why the opry is as big as it is. Good for you.
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Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination. As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country."The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. Guys like Stonewall Jackson are why the opry is as big as it is. Good for you.
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 33111
- author: blizard7500
Stonewall Jackson and JEB Stuart, 1861
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- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com
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General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 17040
- author: Zappiss
DON'T BE ANGRY by STONEWALL JACKSON
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- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Don't Be Angry by Stonewall Jackson 1958
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Stonewall Jackson-Smoke Along The Track
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- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson singing "Smoke Along The Track"
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Stonewall Jackson singing "Smoke Along The Track"
- published: 15 Apr 2010
- views: 54780
- author: Alabamon
General Stonewall Jackson "Gods & Generals" - LifeLessons from Movies
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool Place of birth Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Place of death Guinea Station, Virginia Place of burial Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia Allegiance United States Army Confederate States Army Years of service 184651 (USA) 186163 (CSA) Rank Major (USA) Lieutenant General Commands held Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Battles/wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Great Train Raid of 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) Romney Expedition Valley Campaign Battle of Kernstown Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester (1862) Battle of Port Republic Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines' Mill Battle of Savage's Station Battle of White Oak Swamp Battle of Malvern Hill Northern Virginia Campaign Battle of Cedar Mountain First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Manassas Station Ops. Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) Battle of Chantilly Maryland Campaign Battle of Harpers Ferry Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville † Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[1] May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the ...
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool Place of birth Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Place of death Guinea Station, Virginia Place of burial Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia Allegiance United States Army Confederate States Army Years of service 184651 (USA) 186163 (CSA) Rank Major (USA) Lieutenant General Commands held Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Battles/wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Great Train Raid of 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) Romney Expedition Valley Campaign Battle of Kernstown Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester (1862) Battle of Port Republic Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines' Mill Battle of Savage's Station Battle of White Oak Swamp Battle of Malvern Hill Northern Virginia Campaign Battle of Cedar Mountain First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Manassas Station Ops. Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) Battle of Chantilly Maryland Campaign Battle of Harpers Ferry Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville † Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[1] May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the ...
- published: 30 Jan 2010
- views: 25624
- author: decidecommitsucceed
Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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STONEWALL JACKSON-WEDDING BELLS.wmv
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- Duration: 3:24
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mom moved the family to South Georgia. Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. [edit] Recording career After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition. His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones, "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their fate. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom ...
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Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mom moved the family to South Georgia. Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. [edit] Recording career After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition. His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones, "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their fate. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom ...
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 21641
- author: oldtexasmusic
Stonewall Jackson That's Why I'm Walkin
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Classic Stonewall
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Stonewall Jackson - Big House On the Corner
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
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Black Sheep - Stonewall Jackson
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a string of Top Ten country hits and becoming a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry with a pleading voice that seemed to reflect his hard, often abusive upbringing on a south Georgia dirt farm. He was named after the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom he was related according to family legend. When he was ten he traded his bike for a guitar and began making up songs. Some of his later hits, such as "Don't Be Angry," were written very early in his creative life. Jackson began singing professionally in the mid-'50s, moving to Nashville in 1956. Within a few days of his arrival he delivered an unsolicited demonstration recording to the offices of the Acuff-Rose publishing house, and executive Wesley Rose heard his recorded singing and set up an audition for Jackson at the Grand Ole Opry. He became the first entertainer to join the Opry without a recording contract, performing first on the Opry's Friday Night Frolics before his official debut. Backed by Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, he proved so popular that the audience demanded four encores. Eventually Jackson hit the road with Tubb, who became a mentor to the young singer and songwriter. By early 1957, Jackson had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and cut his first record, "Don't Be Angry." Jackson followed up with a cover of George Jones' "Life to Go," which peaked at number two in early 1959. The ...
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Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a string of Top Ten country hits and becoming a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry with a pleading voice that seemed to reflect his hard, often abusive upbringing on a south Georgia dirt farm. He was named after the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom he was related according to family legend. When he was ten he traded his bike for a guitar and began making up songs. Some of his later hits, such as "Don't Be Angry," were written very early in his creative life. Jackson began singing professionally in the mid-'50s, moving to Nashville in 1956. Within a few days of his arrival he delivered an unsolicited demonstration recording to the offices of the Acuff-Rose publishing house, and executive Wesley Rose heard his recorded singing and set up an audition for Jackson at the Grand Ole Opry. He became the first entertainer to join the Opry without a recording contract, performing first on the Opry's Friday Night Frolics before his official debut. Backed by Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, he proved so popular that the audience demanded four encores. Eventually Jackson hit the road with Tubb, who became a mentor to the young singer and songwriter. By early 1957, Jackson had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and cut his first record, "Don't Be Angry." Jackson followed up with a cover of George Jones' "Life to Go," which peaked at number two in early 1959. The ...
- published: 29 Dec 2010
- views: 13397
- author: fatjud1
Stonewall Jackson I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
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Stonewall Jackson - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
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- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was George. The Great Stonewall Jackson does it just fine though.
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Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was George. The Great Stonewall Jackson does it just fine though.
- published: 15 Jan 2010
- views: 10150
- author: Tom Page
Stonewall Jackson - Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo rateyourmusic.com www.musicstack.com
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- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 16895
- author: RADOVICHY
Stonewall Jackson's Way
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's website.
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Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's website.
- published: 22 Oct 2008
- views: 73839
- author: mavzer
BJ The DJ by Stonewall Jackson & Friends
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) ============================================= ============================================= ============================================= Hugh X Lewis Vernon Oxford Bill Anderson Jim Ed Brown John Conlee Erin Hay Pete Fisher Lonnie Ratliff Gary Bradshaw Little Jimmy Dickens Connie Smith Porter Wagoner Charlie Daniels Ray Pillow Life To Go A Wound Time Can't Erase I got my angel on my mind That's why I'm walking Crazy Heart Demon Dust
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www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) ============================================= ============================================= ============================================= Hugh X Lewis Vernon Oxford Bill Anderson Jim Ed Brown John Conlee Erin Hay Pete Fisher Lonnie Ratliff Gary Bradshaw Little Jimmy Dickens Connie Smith Porter Wagoner Charlie Daniels Ray Pillow Life To Go A Wound Time Can't Erase I got my angel on my mind That's why I'm walking Crazy Heart Demon Dust
- published: 17 Apr 2010
- views: 14552
- author: nashvilleshowcase
Stonewall Jackson "The Pint Of No Return"
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
I've been looking for Stonewall's 1979 "Bad Ass" album for some time. And now that I found it, here's one of the great drinkin' songs off of it! Enjoy!
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I've been looking for Stonewall's 1979 "Bad Ass" album for some time. And now that I found it, here's one of the great drinkin' songs off of it! Enjoy!
- published: 11 Jul 2010
- views: 13552
- author: wilburscott
Stonewall Jackson-Mary Don't You Weep
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
Stonewall Jackson performing Mary Don't You Weep
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Stonewall Jackson performing Mary Don't You Weep
- published: 10 Jan 2010
- views: 6117
- author: Alabamon
Stone Wall Jackson 2
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Stone Wall Jackson in the War of Northern Aggression.
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Stone Wall Jackson in the War of Northern Aggression.
- published: 05 Jan 2010
- views: 16638
- author: gubment0cheese
Stonewall Jackson Interview (Part 1 of 4) with Paul Edward Joyce on WPEA Radio
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- Duration: 9:40
- Updated: 02 Sep 2012
(Part 1 of 4) Paul Edward Joyce interviews Stonewall Jackson on "Traditional Country: Sounds of Yesteryear" on 90.5 FM WPEA. For more information on Paul and his radio show go to www.paulejoyce.com/radio
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(Part 1 of 4) Paul Edward Joyce interviews Stonewall Jackson on "Traditional Country: Sounds of Yesteryear" on 90.5 FM WPEA. For more information on Paul and his radio show go to www.paulejoyce.com/radio
- published: 26 Dec 2008
- views: 1969
- author: PEJCountry
stonewall Jackson I washed my hand in muddy water
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
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2:30
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson 1959.wmv
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" mea...
published: 01 Mar 2010
author: MrRJDB1969
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson 1959.wmv
WATERLOO ~ Stonewall Jackson ~1959~ Columbia Records # 41393. By definition "Waterloo" means : 1) The battle in which Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815. 2) Any decisive or crushing defeat. The meaning of "Waterloo" here refers to the fact that we all must meet our own ending or demise. Stonewall Jackson performed WATERLOO on Dick Clark's AMERICAN BANDSTAND on Tuesday- October 27, 1959. The song first hit the charts on May 25, 1959, stayed there for 16 weeks, & peaked at #4.
- published: 01 Mar 2010
- views: 47766
- author: MrRJDB1969
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The Faith of Stonewall Jackson
A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated sold...
published: 22 Jun 2007
author: SJGrantski
The Faith of Stonewall Jackson
A film documenting the faith of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, one of the most decorated soldiers/generals of the American Civil War. I pieced this together with clips from the movie "Gods & Generals" and the documentary on Jackson found on that DVD.
- published: 22 Jun 2007
- views: 77308
- author: SJGrantski
2:45
Stonewall Jackson Don't Be Angry
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published: 20 May 2009
author: Arnescountry
Stonewall Jackson Don't Be Angry
- published: 20 May 2009
- views: 121730
- author: Arnescountry
2:21
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in ...
published: 25 Jun 2011
author: blizard7500
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ
Stonewall Jackson - BJ the DJ In 2006, Jackson sued the Grand Ole Opry for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damage, claiming age discrimination. As a member of the Opry for over fifty years, Jackson believed that management was sidelining him in favor of younger artists. In his court filing, Jackson claimed that Opry general manager Pete Fisher stated that he did not "want any gray hairs on that stage or in the audience, and before I'm done there won't be any." Fisher is also alleged to have told Jackson that he was "too old and too country."The lawsuit was settled on October 3, 2008 for an undisclosed amount and Jackson returned to performing on the show. Guys like Stonewall Jackson are why the opry is as big as it is. Good for you.
- published: 25 Jun 2011
- views: 33111
- author: blizard7500
2:42
Stonewall Jackson and JEB Stuart, 1861
General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com...
published: 15 Jan 2012
author: Zappiss
Stonewall Jackson and JEB Stuart, 1861
General Stuart certainly has a nice hat. A clip from Gods and Generals, www.imdb.com
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 17040
- author: Zappiss
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DON'T BE ANGRY by STONEWALL JACKSON
Don't Be Angry by Stonewall Jackson 1958...
published: 04 Jan 2008
author: AlanPaladin
DON'T BE ANGRY by STONEWALL JACKSON
Don't Be Angry by Stonewall Jackson 1958
- published: 04 Jan 2008
- views: 364243
- author: AlanPaladin
2:52
General Stonewall Jackson "Gods & Generals" - LifeLessons from Movies
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) Ge...
published: 30 Jan 2010
author: decidecommitsucceed
General Stonewall Jackson "Gods & Generals" - LifeLessons from Movies
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson January 21, 1824(1824-01-21) May 10, 1863 (aged 39) General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before his wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Nickname Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool Place of birth Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Place of death Guinea Station, Virginia Place of burial Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia Allegiance United States Army Confederate States Army Years of service 184651 (USA) 186163 (CSA) Rank Major (USA) Lieutenant General Commands held Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Battles/wars Mexican-American War American Civil War Great Train Raid of 1861 First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) Romney Expedition Valley Campaign Battle of Kernstown Battle of Front Royal Battle of Winchester (1862) Battle of Port Republic Seven Days Battles Battle of Gaines' Mill Battle of Savage's Station Battle of White Oak Swamp Battle of Malvern Hill Northern Virginia Campaign Battle of Cedar Mountain First Battle of Rappahannock Station Battle of Manassas Station Ops. Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) Battle of Chantilly Maryland Campaign Battle of Harpers Ferry Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg Battle of Chancellorsville † Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824[1] May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the ...
- published: 30 Jan 2010
- views: 25624
- author: decidecommitsucceed
2:15
Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson...
published: 02 Apr 2007
author: stlbaseball15
Stonewall Jackson
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
- published: 02 Apr 2007
- views: 86947
- author: stlbaseball15
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STONEWALL JACKSON-WEDDING BELLS.wmv
Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named ...
published: 13 Jul 2010
author: oldtexasmusic
STONEWALL JACKSON-WEDDING BELLS.wmv
Jackson, born Tabor City, North Carolina, is the youngest of three children. He was named after the Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who he claims was an ancestor; the name is not a nickname. His father died when he was two and his mom moved the family to South Georgia. Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. [edit] Recording career After hearing Jackson's demo tape, Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson became the first artist to join the Grand Ole Opry before obtaining a recording contract. He toured with Ernest Tubb, who became his mentor. Jackson signed to Columbia Records and debuted in 1958 with "Don't Be Angry". The song did not score in the country music top 40, but it got him recognition. His breakthrough came in the country Top 40 in late 1958, with a song written by a young George Jones, "Life to Go". It peaked at No. 2 in early 1959 and his follow-up record, "Waterloo", was No. 1 for five weeks and crossed over into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it reached No. 4. The track also reached No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1959.[1] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[2] The song was a haunting and catchy tune that states "Everybody has to meet his Waterloo", meaning their fate. The song cites Adam, Napoleon and Tom ...
- published: 13 Jul 2010
- views: 21641
- author: oldtexasmusic
2:13
Stonewall Jackson That's Why I'm Walkin
Classic Stonewall...
published: 16 Sep 2007
author: TronconesAmigo
Stonewall Jackson That's Why I'm Walkin
Classic Stonewall
- published: 16 Sep 2007
- views: 104603
- author: TronconesAmigo
4:31
Black Sheep - Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a s...
published: 29 Dec 2010
author: fatjud1
Black Sheep - Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson was one of the most popular country stars of the early '60s, scoring a string of Top Ten country hits and becoming a fixture at the Grand Ole Opry with a pleading voice that seemed to reflect his hard, often abusive upbringing on a south Georgia dirt farm. He was named after the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom he was related according to family legend. When he was ten he traded his bike for a guitar and began making up songs. Some of his later hits, such as "Don't Be Angry," were written very early in his creative life. Jackson began singing professionally in the mid-'50s, moving to Nashville in 1956. Within a few days of his arrival he delivered an unsolicited demonstration recording to the offices of the Acuff-Rose publishing house, and executive Wesley Rose heard his recorded singing and set up an audition for Jackson at the Grand Ole Opry. He became the first entertainer to join the Opry without a recording contract, performing first on the Opry's Friday Night Frolics before his official debut. Backed by Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, he proved so popular that the audience demanded four encores. Eventually Jackson hit the road with Tubb, who became a mentor to the young singer and songwriter. By early 1957, Jackson had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and cut his first record, "Don't Be Angry." Jackson followed up with a cover of George Jones' "Life to Go," which peaked at number two in early 1959. The ...
- published: 29 Dec 2010
- views: 13397
- author: fatjud1
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Stonewall Jackson I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
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published: 27 Jul 2009
author: Arnescountry
Stonewall Jackson I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
- published: 27 Jul 2009
- views: 61505
- author: Arnescountry
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Stonewall Jackson - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was G...
published: 15 Jan 2010
author: Tom Page
Stonewall Jackson - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Did The Possum sing this too? Maybe this is the one I've always heard and thought it was George. The Great Stonewall Jackson does it just fine though.
- published: 15 Jan 2010
- views: 10150
- author: Tom Page
2:52
Stonewall Jackson - Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo rateyourmusic.com www.musicstack.com...
published: 13 Aug 2011
author: RADOVICHY
Stonewall Jackson - Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
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- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 16895
- author: RADOVICHY
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Stonewall Jackson's Way
Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's...
published: 22 Oct 2008
author: mavzer
Stonewall Jackson's Way
Music: Bobby Horton - Stonewall Jackson's Way Pictures are mostly from Mr. Mort Kunstler's website.
- published: 22 Oct 2008
- views: 73839
- author: mavzer
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BJ The DJ by Stonewall Jackson & Friends
www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) =====...
published: 17 Apr 2010
author: nashvilleshowcase
BJ The DJ by Stonewall Jackson & Friends
www.stonewalljacksoncountry.com VISIT STONEWALL JACKSON WEBSITE ("Click" Link Above) ============================================= ============================================= ============================================= Hugh X Lewis Vernon Oxford Bill Anderson Jim Ed Brown John Conlee Erin Hay Pete Fisher Lonnie Ratliff Gary Bradshaw Little Jimmy Dickens Connie Smith Porter Wagoner Charlie Daniels Ray Pillow Life To Go A Wound Time Can't Erase I got my angel on my mind That's why I'm walking Crazy Heart Demon Dust
- published: 17 Apr 2010
- views: 14552
- author: nashvilleshowcase
photo: AP / Mohammad Hannon
25 Jan 2013
Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton’s smooth and confident performance at Wednesday’s Senate and House committee hearings was fun to watch. When her would-be inquisitors asked serious questions, she gave serious answers. But when Sen ... Fat chance ... Benghazi ... Perhaps not ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
24 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the world of politics and imagination, theater usually trumps theology while history is most often vanquished by histrionics. President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for a second term reflects this truth, specifically as he uses two historic bibles-one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and another used only by Abraham Lincoln ... "With malice toward none; with charity for all."....(size: 7.3Kb)
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25 Jan 2013
Live text commentary as Zambia face Nigeria and Bukina Faso play Ethiopia in Group C of the Africa Cup of Nations. To get live updates & watch our video coverage you must enable Javascript. Watch My Cup of Nations - Daouda Diakite Watch My Cup of Nations - Jacob Mulenga. 25 January 2013 Share this page. print. Get involved. To get involved contact us in any of the following ways Send us a text ... Live Reporting. In Summary ... 1430. ... ....(size: 17.2Kb)
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24 Jan 2013
Ben Emmerson QC addresses reporters in London (Photo. TBIJ). A UN investigation into the legality and casualties of drone strikes has been formally launched, with a leading human rights lawyer revealing the team that will carry out the inquiry. The announcement came as the latest reported US drone strike in Yemen was said to have mistakenly killed two children ... In total some 25 strikes are expected to be examined in detail ... He added....(size: 7.1Kb)
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25 Jan 2013
At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries. It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world. A World Health Organization-led study looked for evidence of the body's immune system fighting the virus ... Anti-bodies ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
The Washington Times
25 Jan 2013
Facebook. Follow @washtimes. Do you think North Korea will test a nuclear device in the near future?. View results. ANALYSIS/OPINION.. Wars are won despite the generals. Every historian knows that. Combat is no place for a woman. Every grunt knows that. So do most women. Only generals are confused ... You wouldn’t expect to find the likes of Stonewall Jackson, John J. Pershing or George S. Patton Jr ... Gen. Martin E ... Gen ... Sen ... Mr ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
The Washington Post
24 Jan 2013
Richmond’s General Assembly, lampooned on national TV last year for a plan to require women to get a vaginal ultrasound before an abortion, has once again become fodder for late-night comedians ... Marsh III of Richmond, was absent to attend President Obama’s inauguration ... Loading... Recommend ... Lt ... Colbert also mocked the Senate for adjourning its Martin Luther King Day session in honor of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)
The Examiner
22 Jan 2013
Starting with the Emancipation Proclamation on the 1st day of the year, other events to be celebrated this year include the battle of Gettysburg, the battle of Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson’s death, the formation of the United States Colored Troops, the battle of Vicksburg, the battle of Chickamauga, the Gettysburg Address and the battle of Chattanooga....(size: 7.9Kb)
Richmond Times Dispatch
22 Jan 2013
Henri Schulte, an exchange student from Germany, a Lee-Davis High School student, said that education here is “completely different” from the way students are taught in his home country ... “You are with the same people all day, all year long ... Fluent in English, the tall, slim 16-year-old is living in Old Church with Tara Hilbert, Mark Schneck and their 13-year-old son, Wyatt Schneck, a student at Stonewall Jackson Middle School ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
The Examiner
21 Jan 2013
Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson ... Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was born on January 21, 1824 in what was then Clarksburg, Virginia, now Clarksburg, West Virginia ... One of his wartime aides, James Power Smith, said early on, “The religion of Stonewall Jackson will be the chief and most effective way into the secret spring of the character and career of this strong man.''....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Washington Post
21 Jan 2013
Against No. 3 St ... Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections?. Recommend ... 11 ... Stonewall Jackson junior forward Nicole Floyd, a Wake Forest recruit, is the Raiders’ top player, and also perhaps the No ... “She works on her game probably twice, three times a day,” Stonewall Coach Diana Martinez said ... Stonewall, which has won more than 75 consecutive Virginia AAA Cedar Run District games, has lost to No ... 12 H.D ... Stonewall Jackson ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
The Roanoke Times
21 Jan 2013
The Roanoke Times
20 Jan 2013
Sons of Confederate Veterans Chris Cutrer (left) of Texas and Billy Bearden of Georgia hold Confederate flags as they watch the wreath-laying ceremony honoring Stonewall Jackson at his grave Saturday in Lexington ... Lee and Stonewall Jackson are part of the city’s history ... The crowd laughed, providing a brief break from the quiet ceremony that took place Saturday morning in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery....(size: 5.6Kb)
The Roanoke Times
20 Jan 2013
EDUCATION. Toni McLawhorn, director of career services at Roanoke College, recently received the Southern Star Award from the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers. Robert Sumichrast has been appointed dean of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech ... Dr ... ENGINEERING. E ... FINANCIAL. James Hall Jr ... GOVERNMENT ... Inc ... J ... MEDIA ... John Miller (retired) is the new president of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the Association of the U.S ... ....(size: 5.3Kb)
The Examiner
19 Jan 2013
Robert E. Lee is considered one of the great American military minds. But he also was a man of deep faith ... Robert E ... (died October 12, 1870). In Virginia, his birthday is celebrated with that of Stonewall Jackson on the Friday preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Lee, as well as Stonewall Jackson, was a great reader of the Bible ... When hearing that Stonewall Jackson had been injured he sent word to Jackson to let him know he was praying ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
noodls
19 Jan 2013
(Source. College of William and Mary) ... Photo courtesy of the William & Mary Law School ... - Ed ... History Professor Carol Sheriff noticed a section of her daughter's fourth-grade history textbook that claimed that two battalions of African American soldiers fought under Confederate General Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War ... In fact, the Confederacy made it illegal until the last year of the war - and well after Jackson's death, she said....(size: 106.4Kb)
The Examiner
18 Jan 2013
The State of Virginia celebrates Lee-Jackson Day, a memorial to the two famous Confederate Generals ... "Stonewall" Jackson were both natives of Virginia ... The Civil War put both Lee and Jackson in the national spotlight. In July of 1861 at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), Jackson gained his nickname "Stonewall" for his decisive leadership in that pivotal first major battle, a Confederate victory, of the war....(size: 4.4Kb)
The Roanoke Times
17 Jan 2013
Lee-Jackson Symposium ... Lee and Stonewall Jackson ... Annual Lee-Jackson Day ... Lee and Stonewall Jackson ... Wreath laying and military salute in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery ... Lee-Jackson Day Parade through downtown Lexington ... Lee-Jackson Day luncheon in the Appomattox mezzanine of the Virginia Horse Center with entertainment by Dorsey Hostetter & The Maury River Bluegrass Band....(size: 2.3Kb)
This article is about the Confederate general. For other uses, see Stonewall Jackson (disambiguation).
| Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson | |
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  General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 26, 1863, seven days before he was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. |
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| Nickname | Stonewall, Old Jack, Old Blue Light, Tom Fool |
| Born | (1824-01-21)January 21, 1824 Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) |
| Died | May 10, 1863(1863-05-10) (aged 39) Guinea Station, Virginia |
| Place of burial | Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia |
| Allegiance | United States Army Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1846–1851 (USA) 1861–1863 (CSA) |
| Rank | Brevet Major (USA) Lieutenant General (CSA) |
| Commands held | Stonewall Brigade Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia |
| Battles/wars | |
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson[1] (January 21, 1824[2] – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.[3] His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863; the general survived with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications from pneumonia eight days later. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.
Jackson in death became an icon of Southern heroism and commitment, joining Lee in the pantheon of the "Lost Cause".[4]
Military historians consider Jackson to be one of the most gifted tactical commanders in U.S. history. His Valley Campaign and his envelopment of the Union Army right wing at Chancellorsville are studied worldwide even today as examples of innovative and bold leadership. He excelled as well in other battles: the First Battle of Bull Run (where he received his famous nickname "Stonewall"), Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jackson was not universally successful as a commander, however, as displayed by his weak and confused efforts during the Seven Days Battles around Richmond in 1862.
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Early life[link]
Paternal ancestry[link]
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the great-grandson of John Jackson (1715 or 1719 – 1801) and Elizabeth Cummins (also known as Elizabeth Comings and Elizabeth Needles) (1723 – 1828). John Jackson was a Protestant in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland. While living in London, he was convicted of the capital crime of larceny for stealing £170; the judge at the Old Bailey sentenced him to a seven-year indenture in America. Elizabeth, a strong, blonde woman over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, born in London, was also convicted of larceny in an unrelated case for stealing 19 pieces of silver, jewelry, and fine lace, and received a similar sentence. They both were transported on the prison ship Litchfield, which departed London in May 1749 with 150 convicts. John and Elizabeth met on board and were in love by the time the ship arrived at Annapolis, Maryland. Although they were sent to different locations in Maryland for their indentures, the couple married in July 1755.[5]
The family migrated west across the Blue Ridge Mountains to settle near Moorefield, Virginia, (now West Virginia) in 1758. In 1770, they moved farther west to the Tygart Valley. They began to acquire large parcels of virgin farmland near the present-day town of Buckhannon, including 3,000 acres (12 km²) in Elizabeth's name. John and his two teenage sons were early recruits for the American Revolutionary War, fighting in the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780; John finished the war as captain and served as a lieutenant of the Virginia Militia after 1787. While the men were in the Army, Elizabeth converted their home to a haven, "Jackson's Fort," for refugees from Indian attacks.[6]
John and Elizabeth had eight children. Their second son was Edward Jackson (March 1, 1759 – December 25, 1828), and Edward's third son was Jonathan Jackson, Thomas's father.[7]
Early childhood[link]
Thomas Jackson was the third child of Julia Beckwith (née Neale) Jackson (1798–1831) and Jonathan Jackson (1790–1826), an attorney. Both of Jackson's parents were natives of Virginia. The family already had two young children and were living in Clarksburg, in what is now West Virginia, when Thomas was born. He was named for his maternal grandfather.
Thomas's sister Elizabeth (age six) died of typhoid fever on March 6, 1826, with two-year-old Thomas at her bedside. His father died of the same disease March 26. Jackson's mother gave birth to Thomas's sister Laura Ann the day after Jackson's father died.[8] Julia Jackson thus was widowed at 28 and was left with much debt and three young children (including the newborn). She sold the family's possessions to pay the debts. She declined family charity and moved into a small rented one-room house. Julia took in sewing and taught school to support herself and her three young children for about four years.
In 1830, Julia Neale Jackson remarried. Her new husband, Blake Woodson,[9] an attorney, did not like his stepchildren. There were continuing financial problems. The following year, after giving birth to Thomas's half-brother, Julia died of complications, leaving her three older children orphaned.[10] Julia was buried in an unmarked grave in a homemade coffin in Westlake Cemetery along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike in Fayette County within the corporate limits of present-day Ansted, West Virginia.
Working and teaching at Jackson's Mill[link]
As their mother's health continued to fail, Jackson and his sister Laura Ann were sent to live with their uncle, Cummins Jackson, who owned a grist mill in Jackson's Mill (near present-day Weston in Lewis County in central West Virginia). Their older brother, Warren, went to live with other relatives on his mother's side of the family, but he later died of tuberculosis in 1841 at the age of 20. Thomas and Laura Ann returned from Jackson's Mill in November 1831 to be at their dying mother's bedside. They spent four years together at the Mill before being separated—Laura Ann was sent to live with her mother's family, Thomas to live with his Aunt Polly (his father's sister) and her husband, Isaac Brake, on a farm 4 miles from Clarksburg. Thomas was treated by Brake as an outsider and, having suffered verbal abuse for over a year, ran away from the family. When his cousin in Clarksburg besought him to return to Aunt Polly's, he replied, "Maybe I ought to, ma'am, but I am not going to." He walked 18 miles through mountain wilderness to Jackson's Mill, where he was welcomed by his uncles and he remained there for the following seven years.[11]
Cummins Jackson was strict with Thomas, who looked up to Cummins as a schoolteacher. Jackson helped around the farm, tending sheep with the assistance of a sheepdog, driving teams of oxen and helping harvest wheat and corn. Formal education was not easily obtained, but he attended school when and where he could. Much of Jackson's education was self-taught. He once made a deal with one of his uncle's slaves to provide him with pine knots in exchange for reading lessons; Thomas would stay up at night reading borrowed books by the light of those burning pine knots. Virginia law forbade teaching a slave, free black or mulatto to read or write, as enacted following Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion in Southampton County in 1831. Nevertheless, Jackson secretly taught the slave to write, as he had promised. Once literate, the young slave fled to Canada via the underground railroad.[12] In his later years at Jackson's Mill, Thomas was a school teacher.
Early military career[link]
Main article: Military career of Stonewall Jackson
West Point[link]
In 1842, Jackson was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Because of his inadequate schooling, he had difficulty with the entrance examinations and began his studies at the bottom of his class. As a student, he had to work harder than most cadets to absorb lessons. Displaying a dogged determination that was to characterize his life, however, he became one of the hardest working cadets in the academy, and moved steadily up the academic rankings. Jackson graduated 17th out of 59 students in the Class of 1846. It was said by his peers that if he had stayed there another year, he would have graduated first. His roommate in his junior year at West Point was George Stoneman, who later served as a Union cavalry general and became the Governor of California.[13]
U.S. Army and the Mexican War[link]
Jackson began his United States Army career as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery Regiment and was sent to fight in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. He served at the Siege of Veracruz and the battles of Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, eventually earning two brevet promotions, and the regular army rank of first lieutenant. It was in Mexico that Thomas Jackson first met Robert E. Lee.
During the assault on Chapultepec Castle, he refused what he felt was a "bad order" to withdraw his troops. Confronted by his superior, he explained his rationale, claiming withdrawal was more hazardous than continuing his overmatched artillery duel. His judgment proved correct, and a relieving brigade was able to exploit the advantage Jackson had broached. In contrast to this display of strength of character, he obeyed what he also felt was a "bad order" when he raked a civilian throng with artillery fire after the Mexican authorities failed to surrender Mexico City at the hour demanded by the U.S. forces.[14] The former episode, and later aggressive action against the retreating Mexican army, earned him field promotion to the brevet rank of major. He was later recognized by army commander Winfield Scott at a celebratory banquet in Mexico City for earning more promotions than any other officer during the three-year war.
Lexington and the Virginia Military Institute[link]
In the spring of 1851,[15] Jackson accepted a newly created teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), in Lexington, Virginia. He became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Instructor of Artillery. Jackson's teachings are still used at VMI today because they are timeless military essentials: discipline, mobility, assessing the enemy's strength and intentions while attempting to conceal your own, and the efficiency of artillery combined with an infantry assault.
However, despite the high quality of his work, he was not popular as a teacher, and the students called him "Tom Fool." He memorized his lectures and then recited them to the class; any students who came to ask for help were only given the same explanation as before. And if students came to ask again, Jackson viewed this as insubordination and likewise punished them. The students mocked his apparently stern, religious nature and his eccentric traits. In 1856, a group of alumni attempted to have Jackson removed from his position.[16]
Little as he was known to the white inhabitants of Lexington, Jackson was revered by many of the African-Americans in town, both slaves and free blacks. He was instrumental in the organization in 1855 of Sunday School classes for blacks at the Presbyterian Church. His second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, taught with Jackson, as "he preferred that my labors should be given to the colored children, believing that it was more important and useful to put the strong hand of the Gospel under the ignorant African race, to lift them up."[17] The pastor, Dr. William Spottswood White, described the relationship between Jackson and his Sunday afternoon students: "In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. ... His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. ... He was emphatically the black man's friend." He addressed his students by name and they in turn referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major."[18]
Jackson's family owned six slaves in the late 1850s. Three (Hetty, Cyrus, and George, a mother and two teenage sons) were received as a wedding present. Another, Albert, requested that Jackson purchase him and allow him to work for his freedom; he was employed as a waiter in one of the Lexington hotels and Jackson rented him to VMI. Amy also requested that Jackson purchase her from a public auction and she served the family as a cook and housekeeper. The sixth, Emma, was a four-year-old orphan with a learning disability, accepted by Jackson from an aged widow and presented to his second wife, Mary Anna, as a welcome-home gift.[19] After the American Civil War began he appears to have hired out or sold his slaves. Mary Anna Jackson, in her 1895 memoir, said, "our servants ... without the firm guidance and restraint of their master, the excitement of the times proved so demoralizing to them that he deemed it best for me to provide them with good homes among the permanent residents."[20] James Robertson wrote about Jackson's view on slavery:[21]
Jackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The good Christian slaveholder was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times.
While an instructor at VMI in 1853, Thomas Jackson married Elinor "Ellie" Junkin, whose father, George Junkin, was president of Washington College (later named Washington and Lee University) in Lexington. An addition was built onto the president's residence for the Jacksons, and when Robert E. Lee became president of Washington College he lived in the same home, now known as the Lee-Jackson House.[22] Ellie gave birth to a stillborn son on October 22, 1854, experiencing a hemorrhage an hour later that proved fatal.[23]
After a tour of Europe, Jackson married again, in 1857. Mary Anna Morrison was from North Carolina, where her father was the first president of Davidson College. They had a daughter named Mary Graham on April 30, 1858, but the baby died less than a month later. Another daughter was born in 1862, shortly before her father's death. The Jacksons named her Julia Laura, after his mother and sister.
Jackson purchased the only house he ever owned while in Lexington. Built in 1801, the brick town house at 8 East Washington Street was purchased by Jackson in 1859. He lived in it for two years before being called to serve in the Confederacy. Jackson never returned to his home.
In November 1859, at the request of the governor of Virginia, Major William Gilham led a contingent of the VMI Cadet Corps to Charles Town to provide an additional military presence at the hanging of militant abolitionist John Brown on December 2, following his raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16. Major Jackson was placed in command of the artillery, consisting of two howitzers manned by 21 cadets.
Civil War[link]
In 1861, as the American Civil War broke out, Jackson became a drill master for some of the many new recruits in the Confederate Army. On April 27, 1861, Virginia Governor John Letcher ordered Colonel Jackson to take command at Harpers Ferry, where he would assemble and command the famous "Stonewall Brigade", consisting of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 27th, and 33rd Virginia Infantry regiments. All of these units were from the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, where Jackson located his headquarters throughout the first two years of the war. Jackson became known for his relentless drilling of his troops; he believed discipline was vital to success on the battlefield. Following raids on the B&O Railroad on May 24, he was promoted to brigadier general on June 17.[24]
First Bull Run[link]
Jackson rose to prominence and earned his most famous nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) on July 21, 1861. As the Confederate lines began to crumble under heavy Union assault, Jackson's brigade provided crucial reinforcements on Henry House Hill, demonstrating the discipline he instilled in his men. Brig. Gen. Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr., exhorted his own troops to re-form by shouting, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Rally behind the Virginians!"[25] There is some controversy over Bee's statement and intent, which could not be clarified because he was killed almost immediately after speaking and none of his subordinate officers wrote reports of the battle. Major Burnett Rhett, chief of staff to General Joseph E. Johnston, claimed that Bee was angry at Jackson's failure to come immediately to the relief of Bee's and Bartow's brigades while they were under heavy pressure. Those who subscribe to this opinion believe that Bee's statement was meant to be pejorative: "Look at Jackson standing there like a damned stone wall!"[26] Regardless of the controversy and the delay in relieving Bee, Jackson's brigade, which would thenceforth be known as the Stonewall Brigade, stopped the Union assault and suffered more casualties than any other Southern brigade that day; Jackson has since then been generally known as Stonewall Jackson.[27] During the battle, Jackson displayed a gesture common to him and held his left arm skyward with the palm facing forward—interpreted by his soldiers variously as an eccentricity or an entreaty to God for success in combat. His hand was struck by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel and he suffered a small loss of bone in his middle finger. He refused medical advice to have the finger amputated.[28] After the battle, Jackson was promoted to major general (October 7, 1861)[24] and given command of the Valley District, with headquarters in Winchester.
Main article: Winchester in the American Civil War
Valley Campaign[link]
For more details on this topic, see Valley Campaign.
In the spring of 1862, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac approached Richmond from the southeast in the Peninsula Campaign, Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell's large corps were poised to hit Richmond from the north, and Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army threatened the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson was ordered by Richmond to operate in the Valley to defeat Banks' threat and prevent McDowell's troops from reinforcing McClellan.
Jackson possessed the attributes to succeed against his poorly coordinated and sometimes timid opponents: a combination of great audacity, excellent knowledge and shrewd use of the terrain, and the ability to inspire his troops to great feats of marching and fighting.
The campaign started with a tactical defeat at Kernstown on March 23, 1862, when faulty intelligence led him to believe he was attacking a small detachment. But it became a strategic victory for the Confederacy, because his aggressiveness suggested that he possessed a much larger force, convincing President Abraham Lincoln to keep Banks' troops in the Valley and McDowell's 30,000-man corps near Fredericksburg, subtracting about 50,000 soldiers from McClellan's invasion force. As it transpired, it was Jackson's only defeat in the Valley.
By adding Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's large division and Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's small division, Jackson increased his army to 17,000 men. He was still significantly outnumbered, but attacked portions of his divided enemy individually at McDowell, defeating both Brig. Gens. Robert H. Milroy and Robert C. Schenck. He defeated Banks at Front Royal and Winchester, ejecting him from the Valley. Lincoln decided that the defeat of Jackson was an immediate priority (though Jackson's orders were solely to keep Union forces occupied away from Richmond). He ordered Irvin McDowell to send 20,000 men to Front Royal and Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont to move to Harrisonburg. If both forces could converge at Strasburg, Jackson's only escape route up the Valley would be cut.
After a series of maneuvers, Jackson defeated Frémont's command at Cross Keys and Brig. Gen. James Shields at Port Republic on June 8–9. Union forces were withdrawn from the Valley.
It was a classic military campaign of surprise and maneuver. Jackson pressed his army to travel 646 miles (1,040 km) in 48 days of marching and won five significant victories with a force of about 17,000 against a combined force of 60,000. Stonewall Jackson's reputation for moving his troops so rapidly earned them the oxymoronic nickname "foot cavalry". He became the most celebrated soldier in the Confederacy (until he was eventually eclipsed by Lee) and lifted the morale of the Southern public.
Peninsula[link]
McClellan's Peninsula Campaign toward Richmond stalled at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31 and June 1. After the Valley Campaign ended in mid-June, Jackson and his troops were called to join Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in defense of the capital. By utilizing a railroad tunnel under the Blue Ridge Mountains and then transporting troops to Hanover County on the Virginia Central Railroad, Jackson and his forces made a surprise appearance in front of McClellan at Mechanicsville. Reports had last placed Jackson's forces in the Shenandoah Valley; their presence near Richmond added greatly to the Union commander's overestimation of the strength and numbers of the forces before him. This proved a crucial factor in McClellan's decision to re-establish his base at a point many miles downstream from Richmond on the James River at Harrison's Landing, essentially a retreat that ended the Peninsula Campaign and prolonged the war almost three more years.
Jackson's troops served well under Lee in the series of battles known as the Seven Days Battles, but Jackson's own performance in those battles is generally considered to be poor.[29] He arrived late at Mechanicsville and inexplicably ordered his men to bivouac for the night within clear earshot of the battle. He was late and disoriented at Gaines' Mill. He was late again at Savage's Station and at White Oak Swamp he failed to employ fording places to cross White Oak Swamp Creek, attempting for hours to rebuild a bridge, which limited his involvement to an ineffectual artillery duel and a missed opportunity. At Malvern Hill Jackson participated in the futile, piecemeal frontal assaults against entrenched Union infantry and massed artillery, and suffered heavy casualties (but this was a problem for all of Lee's army in that ill-considered battle). The reasons for Jackson's sluggish and poorly-coordinated actions during the Seven Days are disputed, although a severe lack of sleep after the grueling march and railroad trip from the Shenandoah Valley was probably a significant factor. Both Jackson and his troops were completely exhausted. It has also been said by Longstreet that, "General Jackson never showed his genius when under the immediate command of General Lee."
Second Bull Run to Fredericksburg[link]
The military reputations of Lee's corps commanders are often characterized as Stonewall Jackson representing the audacious, offensive component of Lee's army, whereas his counterpart, James Longstreet, more typically advocated and executed defensive strategies and tactics. Jackson has been described as the army's hammer, Longstreet its anvil.[30] In the Northern Virginia Campaign of August 1862 this stereotype did not hold true. Longstreet commanded the Right Wing (later to become known as the First Corps) and Jackson commanded the Left Wing. Jackson started the campaign under Lee's orders with a sweeping flanking maneuver that placed his corps into the rear of Union Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia. At Manassas Junction Jackson was able to capture all of the supplies of the Union Army depot. Then he had his troops destroy all of it, for it was the main depot for the Union Army. Jackson then retreated and then took up a defensive position and effectively invited Pope to assault him. On August 28–29, the start of the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), Pope launched repeated assaults against Jackson as Longstreet and the remainder of the army marched north to reach the battlefield.
On August 30, Pope came to believe that Jackson was starting to retreat, and Longstreet took advantage of this by launching a massive assault on the Union army's left with over 25,000 men. Although the Union troops put up a furious defense, Pope's army was forced to retreat in a manner similar to the embarrassing Union defeat at First Bull Run, fought on roughly the same battleground.
When Lee decided to invade the North in the Maryland Campaign, Jackson took Harpers Ferry, then hastened to join the rest of the army at Sharpsburg, Maryland, where they fought McClellan in the Battle of Antietam. Antietam was primarily a defensive battle against superior odds, although McClellan failed to exploit his advantage. Jackson's men bore the brunt of the initial attacks on the northern end of the battlefield and, at the end of the day, successfully resisted a breakthrough on the southern end when Jackson's subordinate, Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill, arrived at the last minute from Harpers Ferry. The Confederate forces held their position, but the battle was extremely bloody for both sides, and Lee withdrew the Army of Northern Virginia back across the Potomac River, ending the invasion. Jackson was promoted to lieutenant general. On October 10 his command was redesignated the Second Corps.
Before the armies camped for winter, Jackson's Second Corps held off a strong Union assault against the right flank of the Confederate line at the Battle of Fredericksburg, in what became a decisive Confederate victory. Just before the battle, Jackson was delighted to receive a letter about the birth of his daughter, Julia Laura Jackson, on November 23.[31] Also before the battle, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Lee's dashing and well-dressed cavalry commander, presented to Jackson a fine general's frock that he had ordered from one of the best tailors in Richmond. Jackson's previous coat was threadbare and colorless from exposure to the elements, its buttons removed by admiring ladies. Jackson asked his staff to thank Stuart, saying that although the coat was too handsome for him, he would cherish it as a souvenir. His staff insisted that he wear it to dinner, which caused scores of soldiers to rush to see him in uncharacteristic garb. So embarrassed was Jackson with the attention that he did not wear the new uniform for months.[32]
Chancellorsville[link]
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Army of Northern Virginia was faced with a serious threat by the Army of the Potomac and its new commanding general, Major General Joseph Hooker. General Lee decided to employ a risky tactic to take the initiative and offensive away from Hooker's new southern thrust—he decided to divide his forces. Jackson and his entire corps were sent on an aggressive flanking maneuver to the right of the Union lines. This flanking movement would be one of the most successful and dramatic of the war. While riding with his infantry in a wide berth well south and west of the Federal line of battle, Jackson employed Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry to provide for better reconnaissance in regards to the exact location of the Union right and rear. The results were far better than even Jackson could have hoped. Lee found the entire right side of the Federal lines in the middle of open field, guarded merely by two guns that faced westward, as well as the supplies and rear encampments. The men were eating and playing games in carefree fashion, completely unaware that an entire Confederate corps was less than a mile away. What happened next is given in Lee's own words:
So impressed was I with my discovery, that I rode rapidly back to the point on the Plank road where I had left my cavalry, and back down the road Jackson was moving, until I met "Stonewall" himself. "General," said I, "if you will ride with me, halting your column here, out of sight, I will show you the enemy's right, and you will perceive the great advantage of attacking down the Old turnpike instead of the Plank road, the enemy's lines being taken in reverse. Bring only one courier, as you will be in view from the top of the hill." Jackson assented, and I rapidly conducted him to the point of observation. There had been no change in the picture. I only knew Jackson slightly. I watched him closely as he gazed upon Howard's troops. It was then about 2 P.M. His eyes burned with a brilliant glow, lighting up a sad face. His expression was one of intense interest, his face was colored slightly with the paint of approaching battle, and radiant at the success of his flank movement. To the remarks made to him while the unconscious line of blue was pointed out, he did not reply once during the five minutes he was on the hill, and yet his lips were moving. From what I have read and heard of Jackson since that day, I know now what he was doing then. Oh! "beware of rashness," General Hooker. Stonewall Jackson is praying in full view and in rear of your right flank! While talking to the Great God of Battles, how could he hear what a poor cavalryman was saying. "Tell General Rodes," said he, suddenly whirling his horse towards the courier, "to move across the Old plank road; halt when he gets to the Old turnpike, and I will join him there." One more look upon the Federal lines, and then he rode rapidly down the hill, his arms flapping to the motion of his horse, over whose head it seemed, good rider as he was, he would certainly go. I expected to be told I had made a valuable personal reconnaissance—saving the lives of many soldiers, and that Jackson was indebted to me to that amount at least. Perhaps I might have been a little chagrined at Jackson's silence, and hence commented inwardly and adversely upon his horsemanship. Alas! I had looked upon him for the last time.
— Fitzhugh Lee, address to the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1879
Jackson immediately returned to his corps and arranged his divisions into a line of battle to charge directly into the oblivious Federal right. The Confederates marched silently until they were merely several hundred feet from the Union position, then released a bloodthirsty cry and full charge. Many of the Federals were captured without a shot fired, the rest were driven into a full rout. Jackson pursued relentlessly back toward the center of the Federal line until dusk.
Darkness ended the assault. As Jackson and his staff were returning to camp on May 2, they were mistaken for a Union cavalry force by the 18th North Carolina Infantry regiment who shouted, "Halt, who goes there?", but fired before evaluating the reply. Frantic shouts by Jackson's staff identifying the party were replied to by Major John D. Barry with the retort, "It's a damned Yankee trick! Fire!" [33] A second volley was fired in response; in all, Jackson was hit by three bullets, two in the left arm and one in the right hand. Several other men in his staff were killed, in addition to many horses. Darkness and confusion prevented Jackson from getting immediate care. He was dropped from his stretcher while being evacuated because of incoming artillery rounds. Because of his injuries, Jackson's left arm had to be amputated by Dr. Hunter McGuire.[34] Jackson was moved to Thomas C. Chandler's 740 acres (3.0 km2) plantation named Fairfield. He was offered Chandler's home for recovery, but Jackson refused and suggested using Chandler's plantation office building instead. He was thought to be out of harm's way; but unknown to the doctors, he already had classic symptoms of pneumonia, complaining of a sore chest. This soreness was mistakenly thought to be the result of his rough handling in the battlefield evacuation.
Death[link]
Lee wrote to Jackson after learning of his injuries, stating "Could I have directed events, I would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead."[35] Jackson died of complications from pneumonia on May 10, 1863. On his death bed, though he became weaker, he remained spiritually strong, saying towards the end "It is the Lord's Day; my wish is fulfilled. I have always desired to die on Sunday." Dr. McGuire wrote an account of his final hours and his last words:
A few moments before he died he cried out in his delirium, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly! Tell Major Hawks"—then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished. Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."[36]
His body was moved to the Governor's Mansion in Richmond for the public to mourn, and he was then moved to be buried in the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia. However, the arm that was amputated on May 2 was buried separately by Jackson's chaplain, at the J. Horace Lacy house, "Ellwood", in the Wilderness of Orange County, near the field hospital.[37]
Upon hearing of Jackson's death, Robert E. Lee mourned the loss of both a friend and a trusted commander. As Jackson lay dying, Lee sent a message through Chaplain Lacy, saying "Give General Jackson my affectionate regards, and say to him: he has lost his left arm but I my right."[38] The night Lee learned of Jackson's death, he told his cook, "William, I have lost my right arm" and "I'm bleeding at the heart."[39]
Harpers Weekly reported Jackson's death on May 23, 1863, as follows:
DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
- General "Stonewall" Jackson was badly wounded in the arm at the battles of Chancellorsville, and had his arm amputated. The operation did not succeed, and pneumonia setting in, he died on the 10th inst., near Richmond, Virginia.[40]
Legacy[link]
Jackson's sometimes unusual command style and personality traits, combined with his frequent success in battle, contribute to his legacy as one of the most remarkable characters of the Civil War.[41] Although martial, stern in attitude, he was profoundly religious and a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. One of his many nicknames was "Old Blue Lights,"[42] a term applied to a military man whose evangelical zeal burned with the intensity of the blue light used for night-time display.[43] He disliked fighting on Sunday, although that did not stop him from doing so after much personal debate. He loved his wife very much and sent her tender letters. In direct contrast to Lee, Jackson was not a striking figure, often wearing old, worn-out clothes rather than a fancy uniform.
Physical ailments[link]
Jackson held a lifelong belief that one of his arms was longer than the other, and thus usually held the "longer" arm up to equalize his circulation. He was described as a "champion sleeper", even falling asleep with food in his mouth occasionally. A paper delivered to the Society of Clinical Psychologists hypothesized that Jackson had Asperger syndrome,[44] although other possible explanations exist.[45] Indeed Jackson suffered a number of ailments, for which he sought relief via contemporary practices of his day including hydrotherapy, popular in America at that time, visiting establishments at Oswego, New York (1850) and Round Hill, Massachusetts (1860) although with little evidence of success.[46][47] Jackson also suffered a significant hearing loss in both of his ears as a result of his prior service in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer.
A recurring story concerns Jackson's love of lemons, which he allegedly gnawed whole to alleviate symptoms of dyspepsia. General Richard Taylor, son of President Zachary Taylor, wrote a passage in his war memoirs about Jackson eating lemons: "Where Jackson got his lemons 'no fellow could find out,' but he was rarely without one."[48] However, recent research by his biographer, James I. Robertson, Jr., has found that none of his contemporaries, including members of his staff, friends, or his wife, recorded any unusual obsessions with lemons and Jackson thought of a lemon as a "rare treat ... enjoyed greatly whenever it could be obtained from the enemy's camp". Jackson was fond of all fruits, particularly peaches, "but he enjoyed with relish lemons, oranges, watermelons, apples, grapes, berries, or whatever was available."[49]
Command style[link]
In command, Jackson was extremely secretive about his plans and extremely meticulous about military discipline. This secretive nature did not stand him in good stead with his subordinates, who were often not aware of his overall operational intentions until the last minute, and who complained of being left out of key decisions.[50]
Robert E. Lee could trust Jackson with deliberately non-detailed orders that conveyed Lee's overall objectives, what modern doctrine calls the "end state". This was because Jackson had a talent for understanding Lee's sometimes unstated goals and Lee trusted Jackson with the ability to take whatever actions were necessary to implement his end state requirements. Few of Lee's subsequent corps commanders had this ability. At Gettysburg, this resulted in lost opportunities. Thus, after the Federals retreated to the heights south of town, Lee sent one of his new corps commanders, Richard S. Ewell, discretionary orders that the heights (Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill) be taken "if practicable". Without Jackson's intuitive grasp of Lee's orders or the instinct to take advantage of sudden tactical opportunities, Ewell chose not to attempt the assault, and this failure is considered by historians to be the greatest missed opportunity of the battle.[51]
Horsemanship[link]
Jackson had a poor reputation as a horseman. One of his soldiers, Georgia volunteer William Andrews, wrote that Jackson was "a very ordinary looking man of medium size, his uniform badly soiled as though it had seen hard service. He wore a cap pulled down nearly to his nose and was riding a rawboned horse that did not look much like a charger, unless it would be on hay or clover. He certainly made a poor figure on a horseback, with his stirrup leather six inches too short, putting his knees nearly level with his horse's back, and his heels turned out with his toes sticking behind his horse's foreshoulder. A sorry description of our most famous general, but a correct one."[52] His horse was named "Little Sorrel" (also known as "Old Sorrel"), a small chestnut gelding.[53] He rode Little Sorrel throughout the war, and was riding him when he was shot at Chancellorsville. Little Sorrel died at age 36 and is buried near a statue of Jackson on the parade grounds of VMI. (His mounted hide is on display in the VMI Museum.)[54]
Mourning his death[link]
Jackson was greatly admired and respected throughout the South, and his death had a profound effect there on civilians and soldiers alike. A poem penned by one of his soldiers soon became a very popular song, "Stonewall Jackson's Way". Many theorists through the years have postulated that if Jackson had lived, Lee might have prevailed at Gettysburg.[55] Certainly Jackson's discipline and tactical sense were sorely missed, and might well have carried an extremely close-fought battle.
Many Southerners tried to put up a brave front following Jackson's death. As Margaret Mitchell noted in her historical novel, Gone with the Wind, "[t]rue, the South had suffered a sickening loss when Stonewall Jackson had been fatally wounded at Chancellorsville. True, Georgia had lost one of her bravest and most brilliant sons when General T. R. R. Cobb had been killed at Fredericksburg. But the Yankees just couldn't stand any more defeats like Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. They'd have to give in, and then this cruel war would be over."
Remembering Jackson[link]
After the war, Jackson's wife and young daughter Julia moved from Lexington to North Carolina. Mary Anna Jackson wrote[56] two books about her husband's life, including some of his letters. She never remarried, and was known as the "Widow of the Confederacy", living until 1915. His daughter Julia married, and bore children, but she died of typhoid fever at the age of 26 years.
A former Confederate soldier who admired Jackson, Captain Thomas R. Ranson of Staunton, Virginia, also remembered the tragic life of Jackson's mother. Years after the War, he went to the tiny mountain hamlet of Ansted in Fayette County, West Virginia, and had a marble marker placed over the unmarked grave of Julia Neale Jackson in Westlake Cemetery, to make sure that the site was not lost forever.
Commemorations[link]
West Virginia's Stonewall Jackson State Park is named in his honor. Nearby, at Stonewall Jackson's historical childhood home, his uncle's grist mill is the centerpiece of a historical site at the Jackson's Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp. The facility, located near Weston, serves as a special campus for West Virginia University and the WVU Extension Service.
He is memorialized on historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia; on the grounds of the state capitol in his native West Virginia; and in many other places.
At VMI, a bronze statue of Jackson stands outside the main entrance to the cadet barracks; first-year cadets exiting the barracks through that archway are required to honor Jackson's memory by saluting the statue.[57]
The lineage of Jackson's Confederate Army unit, the Stonewall Brigade, continues to the present day in form of the 116th Infantry Brigade of the U.S. Army, currently part of the Virginia National Guard. The unit's shoulder sleeve insignia worn until 2008 depicted Stonewall Jackson mounted on horseback.
The United States Navy submarine U.S.S. Stonewall Jackson (SSBN 634), commissioned in 1964, was named for him. The words "Strength—Mobility" are emblazoned on the ship's banner, words taken from letters written by General Jackson. It was the third U.S. Navy ship named for him. The submarine was decommissioned in 1995. During World War II, the Navy named a Liberty ship the SS T.J. Jackson in his honor.
The U.S. M36 tank destroyer was nicknamed Jackson after him by British forces in World War II.
The Commonwealth of Virginia honors Jackson's birthday on Lee-Jackson Day, a state holiday observed as such since 1904. It is currently observed on the Friday preceding the third Monday in January.
Jackson also appears prominently in the enormous bas-relief carving on the face of Stone Mountain riding with Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. The carving depicts the three on horseback, appearing to ride in a group from right to left across the mountainside. The lower parts of the horses' bodies merge into the mountainside at the foot of the carving. The three riders are shown bare-headed and holding their hats to their chests. It is the largest such carving in the world.
"Stonewall" Jackson appeared on the CSA $500 bill (7th Issue, February 17, 1864).
The towns of Stonewall in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky are named in his honor as is Stonewall County in Texas.
During a training exercise in western Virginia by U.S. Marines in 1921, the Marine commander, General Smedley Butler was told by a local farmer that Stonewall Jackson's arm was buried nearby under a granite marker, to which Butler replied, "Bosh! I will take a squad of Marines and dig up that spot to prove you wrong!"[58] Butler found the arm in a box under the marker. He later replaced the wooden box with a metal one, and reburied the arm. He left a plaque on the granite monument marking the burial place of Jackson's arm; the plaque is no longer on the marker but can be viewed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield visitor's center .[58][59]
In popular media[link]
Jackson is featured prominently in the novel and film Gods and Generals. In the film, he is portrayed by Stephen Lang.
The Theater at Lime Kiln, a local outdoor theater company in Lexington, Virginia, has performed a country-style musical about the life and times of Stonewall Jackson entitled Stonewall Country since 1984.[60]
Quotations[link]
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.[61]
—Jackson to General Imboden
To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory, is the secret of successful war.[62]
—Jackson, 1863
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.[63]
—Jackson to Colonel Munford on June 13, 1862
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.[62]
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
—Jackson, last words
The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. ... That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.[64]
See also[link]
- List of American Civil War generals
- George Francis Robert Henderson (biographer) and his work Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
- William B. Ebbert, 1st Lt., W. Virginia Infantry, Union Army. (1923 quote recalling battle of Winchester, March 1862)
- Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum
Notes[link]
- ^ Farwell, p. xi, states that the overwhelmingly common usage of the middle name Jonathan was never documented and that Jackson did not acknowledge it, instead using the signature form "T. J. Jackson." Robertson, p. 19, states that a county document on February 28, 1841, was the first recorded instance of Jackson using a middle initial, although "whether it stood for his father Jonathan's name is not known." All of the other references to this article cite his full name as Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
- ^ Eicher, High Commands, p. 316; Robertson, p. 7. The physician, Dr. James McCally, recalls delivering baby Thomas just before midnight on January 20, but the family has insisted since then that he was born in the first minutes of January 21. The later date is the one generally acknowledged in biographies.
- ^ Jackson biography at Civil War Home.
- ^ Wallace Hettle, Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory (Louisiana State University Press, 2011)
- ^ Robertson, pp. 1-2.
- ^ Robertson, pp. 2-3.
- ^ VMI Jackson genealogy site; Robertson, p. 4.
- ^ Robertson, p. 7.
- ^ Robertson, p. 8.
- ^ Robertson, p. 10.
- ^ Robertson, pp. 9-16. Robertson refers to multiple bachelor uncles in residence at the mill, but does not name them.
- ^ Robertson, p. 17.
- ^ Robertson, p. 40.
- ^ Robertson, p. 69.
- ^ Robertson, pp. 108-10. He left the Army on March 21, 1851, but stayed on the rolls, officially on furlough, for nine months. His resignation took effect formally on February 2, 1852, and he joined the VMI faculty in August 1851.
- ^ Virginia Military Institute Archives: Stonewall Jackson FAQ
- ^ Jackson, Mary Anna, Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson, by His Widow (Louisville, Ky, 1895), 78.
- ^ Robertson, p. 169.
- ^ Robertson, pp. 191-92.
- ^ Jackson, 152.
- ^ Robertson, p. 191.
- ^ Isbell, Sherman. "Archibald Alexander Travelogue". Archived from the original on September 14, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050914211643/http://members.aol.com/RSISBELL/va.html. Retrieved 2008-12-17. "After 1844, the presidents resided in the neighboring brick house, known as the Lee-Jackson House. While Presbyterian minister George Junkin was president, the appendage on the right side of the Lee-Jackson house was from 1853 the residence of Junkin's daughter and her husband, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. After Jackson's wife died the next year, Jackson remained in the house for another three years. Robert E. Lee, president of the college from 1865 to 1870, resided in the brick house until 1869..."
- ^ Robertson, p. 157.
- ^ a b Eicher, High Commands, p. 316.
- ^ Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, vol. 1, p. 82; Robertson, p. 264. McPherson, p. 342, reports the quotation after "stone wall" as being "Rally around the Virginians!"
- ^ See, for instance, Goldfield, David, et al., The American Journey: A History of the United States, Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-088243-7. There are additional controversies about what Bee said and whether he said anything at all. See Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants, vol. 1, pp. 733–34.
- ^ McPherson, p. 342.
- ^ Robertson, pp. 263, 268.
- ^ See, for instance, Freeman, R.E. Lee, vol. 2, p. 247: "... by every test, Jackson had failed throughout the Seven Days. This is in part to being unfamiliar with the area and to following orders which stated he was to wait until he had communicated with the others before starting a battle." Confederate politician Robert Toombs wrote that "Stonewall Jackson and his troops did little or nothing in these battles of the Chickahominy" (Robertson, p. 504).
- ^ Wert, p. 206.
- ^ Robertson, p. 645.
- ^ Robertson, p. 630.
- ^ Foote, Shelby, The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2
- ^ Apperson, p. 430.
- ^ Robertson, p. 739
- ^ McGuire, pp. 162-63.
- ^ Sorensen, James. "Stonewall Jackson's Arm" American Heritage, April/May 2005.
- ^ Robertson, p. 746.
- ^ Hall, Kenneth. Stonewall Jackson and religious faith in military command. McFarland, 2005.
- ^ Harpers Weekly, May 23, 1863
- ^ "Stonewall Jackson: Popular Questions". Virginia Military Institute. http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=3761&ekmensel=fb5d653b_207_281_3761_1. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
- ^ "Stonewall Jackson's Way". http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00001984mets.xml. Retrieved December 24, 2011.
- ^ Gareth Atkins, review of Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers by Richard Blake (review no. 799) accessed Dec. 24, 2011 at www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/799
- ^ Fitzgerald, Michael, Society of Clinical Psychologists paper.
- ^ Schildkrout, Enid (1997). Medical Diagnosis in Psychotherapy Patients: Identifying Medical Conditions Manifesting as Psychiatric Disorders. Canada: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-16872-6.
- ^ Cartmell, Donald (2001). "The Legend of Stonewall". The Civil War Book of Lists. Franklin Lakes, New Jersey: The Career Press Inc. pp. 187–192. ISBN 1-56414-504-2. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7mCIW1bR438C&dq=%22The+civil+war+book+of+lists%22&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ Samaritan Medical Center (September 2008). "Stonewall Jackson and the Henderson Hydropath". in Samaritan Medical Center Newsletter. No.42. http://library.samaritanhealth.com/library/Newsletter/SMCNewsletter42.pdf. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
- ^ Taylor, p. 50
- ^ Robertson, p. xi.
- ^ Robertson, p. xiv.
- ^ Pfanz, p. 344; Eicher, Longest Night, p. 517; Sears, p. 228; Trudeau, p. 253. Both Sears and Trudeau record "if possible".
- ^ Robertson, p. 499.
- ^ Robertson, p. 230.
- ^ "Little Sorrel Buried at VMI July 20, 1997"; Robertson, p. 922, n. 16.
- ^ See, for instance, Sears, Gettysburg, pp. 233-34. Alternative theories about Gettysburg are prominent ideas in the literature about the Lost Cause.
- ^ Jackson, Mary Anna (1895). Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow. Louisville, KY: The Prentice Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=D_BSA0GZn8QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=anna+jackson%2Bmemoirs.
- ^ VMI article about Jackson
- ^ a b Farwell, 1993, p. 513
- ^ Horwitz, 1999, p. 232
- ^ BroadwayWorld.com article
- ^ Underwood and Buel, Vol.2, p. 297.
- ^ a b Henderson, Vol. 2, chapter XXV, p. 481.
- ^ Henderson, Vol. 1, chapter XI, S. 392.
- ^ "Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Bull's Run", New York Times, May 3, 1885, citing the recollections of John D. Imboden.
References[link]
- Alexander, Bevin. Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Holt, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8050-1830-1.
- Apperson, John Samuel. Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War diaries of John Samuel Apperson, hospital steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-86554-779-3.
- Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7679-0251-3.
- Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 0-684-84944-5.
- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Farwell, Byron. Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1993. ISBN 978-0-393-31086-3.
- Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1946. ISBN 0-684-85979-3.
- Freeman, Douglas S. R. E. Lee, A Biography. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934–35. OCLC 166632575.
- Henderson, G. F. R. Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. New York: Smithmark, 1995. ISBN 0-8317-3288-1. First published in 1898 by Longman, Greens, and Co. (The 1900 version has an introduction by Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley.)
- Hettle, Wallace. Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory (Louisiana State University Press, 2011)
- Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York: Century Co., 1884-1888. OCLC 2048818.
- McGuire, Dr. Hunter. "Death of Stonewall Jackson". Southern Historical Society Papers 14 (1886).
- McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
- Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg – The First Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8078-2624-3.
- Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0-02-864685-1.
- Sears, Stephen W. Gettysburg. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0-395-86761-4.
- Sharlet, Jeff. "Through a Glass, Darkly: How the Christian Right is Reimagining U.S. History." Harpers, December 2006.
- Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War. Nashville, TN: J.S. Sanders & Co., 2001. ISBN 1-879941-21-X. First published 1879 by D. Appleton.
- Trudeau, Noah Andre. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. ISBN 0-06-019363-8.
- Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 0-671-70921-6.
- Jackson genealogy site at Virginia Military Institute
Further reading[link]
- Chambers, Lenoir. Stonewall Jackson. New York: Morrow, 1959. OCLC 186539122.
- Cooke, John Esten, Moses Drury Hoge, and John William Jones. http://books.google.com/books?id=DKHFaHBX2isC Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography]. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876. OCLC 299589.
- Cozzens, Peter. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8078-3200-4.
- Dabney, R. L. Life of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson). London: James Nisbet and Co., 1866. OCLC 457442354.
- Douglas, Henry Kyd. I Rode with Stonewall: The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940. ISBN 0-8078-0337-5.
- Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2002. ISBN 1-58182-296-0.
- Shackel, Paul A. Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000. ISBN 978-0-306-46177-4.
- White, Henry A. Stonewall Jackson. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs and Co., 1909. OCLC 3911913.
- Wilkins, J. Steven. All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-58182-225-1.
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For other uses, see Black sheep (disambiguation).
In the English language, black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family. The term has typically been given negative implications, implying waywardness.[1] It derived from the atypical and unwanted presence of other black individuals in flocks of white sheep.
In psychology, the black sheep effect refers to the tendency of group members to judge likeable ingroup members more positively and deviant ingroup member more negatively than comparable outgroup members.[2]
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Idiomatic usage[link]
The term originated from the occasional black sheep which are born into a flock of white sheep due to a genetic process of recessive traits. Black wool was considered commercially undesirable because it could not be dyed.[1] In 18th and 19th century England, the black color of the sheep was seen as the mark of the devil.[3] In modern usage, the expression has lost some of its negative connotations, though the term is usually given to the member of a group who has certain characteristics or lack thereof deemed undesirable by that group.[4]
The idiom is also found in other languages, e.g., French, Serbian, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Bosnian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian and Polish. The same concept is illustrated in some other languages by the phrase "white crow": for example belaya vorona (белая ворона) in Russian and kalag-e sefid (کلاغ سفید) in Persian. A variant form of black sheep, "the red sheep of the family", was used by Jessica Mitford to describe herself, a communist in a family of aristocratic fascists.[5]
Biological origin[link]
In sheep, a white fleece is not albinism but a dominant gene that actively switches color production off, thus obscuring any other color that may be present.[citation needed] As a result, a black fleece in most sheep is recessive, so if a white ram and a white ewe are each heterozygous for black, in about 25% of cases they will produce a black lamb. In fact in most white sheep breeds only a few white sheep are heterozygous for black, so black lambs are usually much rarer than this. Some breeds of sheep (such as the Hebridean, Ouessant, Black Welsh Mountain and Karakul) are normally black.
Black sheep effect (Psychology)[link]
Overview[link]
In 1988, Marques, Yzerbyt and Leyens[2] conducted an experiment where Belgian students rated the following groups according to trait-descriptors (e.g., sociable, polite, violent, cold): unlikeable Belgian students, unlikeable North African students, likeable Belgian students, and likeable North African students. The results provided support that the favourability is the highest for likeable ingroup members and the lowest for unlikeable ingroup members, whereas the favourability of unlikeable and likeable outgroup members is between the both former ones. These extreme judgements of likeable and unlikeable (i.e., deviant) ingroup members, relatively to comparable outgroup members is called “black sheep effect”. This effect has been shown in various intergroup contexts and under a variety of conditions, and in many experiments manipulating likeability and norm deviance (e.g., Branscombe, Wann, Noel, & Coleman, 1993;[6] Coull, Yzerbyt, Castano, Paladino, & Leemans, 2001;[7] Khan & Lambert, 1998;[8] Pinto, Marques, Levine, & Abrams, 2010).[9]
Explanations[link]
A prominent explanation of the black sheep effect derives from the social identity approach (see social identity theory, Tajfel & Turner, 1979;[10] and self-categorization theory, Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987).[11] Group members are motivated to sustain a positive and distinctice social identity and, as a consequence, group members emphasize likeable members and evaluate them more positve than outgroup members, bolstering the positive image of their ingroup (see ingroup bias). Furthermore, the positive social identity may be threatened by group members who deviate from a relevant group norm. To protect the positive group image, ingroup members derogate ingroup deviants more harshly than deviants of an outgroup (Marques, Abrams, Páez, & Hogg, 2001).[12] In addition, Eidelman and Biernat (2003)[13] have shown that personal identities are also threatened through deviant ingroup members. They argue that devaluation of deviant members is an individual response of interpersonal differentiation. Khan and Lambert (1998)[8] suggest that cognitive processes like assimilation and contrast, which may underline the effect, should be examined.
Limitations[link]
Even though there is widely support for the black sheep effect, the opposite pattern has been found, for example, that White participants judge unqualified Black targets more negative than comparable White targets (e.g., Feldman, 1972;[14] Linville & Jones, 1980).[15] Consequentely, there are several factors which influence the black sheep effect. For instance, the higher the identification with the ingroup, and the higher the entitativity of the ingroup, the more the black sheep effect emerges (e.g., Castano, Paladino, Coull, & Yzerbyt, 2002;[16] Lewis & Sherman, 2010).[17] Even situational factors explaining the deviance have an influence whether the black sheep effect occurs (De Cremer & Vanbeselaere, 1999).[18]
See also[link]
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Look up black sheep in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Black swan theory
- Glossary of sheep husbandry: see entry for "black wool".
- Scapegoat
- The Ugly Duckling
References[link]
- ^ a b Ammer, Christine (1997). American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-72774-4. http://books.google.com/?id=9re1vfFh04sC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=american+heritage+dictionary+%22black+sheep%22. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
- ^ a b Marques, J. M.; Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Leyens, J. (1988). "The 'Black Sheep Effect': Extremity of judgments towards ingroup members as a function of group identification". European Journal of Social Psychology 18: 1-16. DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420180102.
- ^ Sykes, Christopher Simon (1983). Black Sheep. New York: Viking Press. p. 11. ISBN 0-670-17276-6.
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1992. http://www.answers.com/topic/black-sheep. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ^ "Red Sheep: How Jessica Mitford found her voice" by Thomas Mallon 16 Oct 2007 New Yorker.
- ^ Branscombe, N.; Wann, D., Noel, J., & Coleman, J. (1993). "In-group or out-group extremity: Importance of the threatened social identity.". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 19: 381–388. DOI:10.1177/0146167293194003.
- ^ Coull, A.; Yzerbyt, V. Y., Castano, E., Paladino, M.-P., & Leemans, V. (2001). "Protecting the ingroup: Motivated allocation of cognitive resources in the presence of threatening ingroup members". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 4: 327–339. DOI:10.1177/1368430201004004003.
- ^ a b Khan, S.; Lambert, A. J. (1998). "Ingroup favoritism versus black sheep effects in observations of informal conversations.". Basic and Applied Social Psychology 20: 263–269. DOI:10.1207/s15324834basp2004_3.
- ^ Pinto, I. R.; Marques, J. M., Levine, J. M., & Abrams, D. (2010). "Membership status and subjective group dynamics: Who triggers the black sheep effect?". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 99: 107-119. DOI:10.1037/a0018187.
- ^ Worchel, S., & Austin, W. G. (1979). The Social psychology of intergroup relations.. Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole.
- ^ Turner, J. C., Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D., & Wetherell, M. S. (1987). Rediscovering the Social group: A self-categorization theory.. Oxford: Blackwell.
- ^ Hogg, M. A., & Tindale, S. (2001). Blackwell handbook of social psychology: group processes.. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.
- ^ Eidelman, S.; Biernat, M. (2003). "Derogating black sheep: Individual or group protection?". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 39: 602-609. DOI:10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00042-8.
- ^ Feldman, J. M. (1972). "Stimulus characteristics and subject prejudice as determinants of stereotype attribution.". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21: 333–340. DOI:10.1037/h0032313.
- ^ Linville, P. W.; Jones, E. E. (1980). "Polarized appraisals of out-group members". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 38: 689–703. DOI:10.1037//0022-3514.38.5.689.
- ^ Castano, E.; Paladino, M., Coull, A., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2002). "Protecting the ingroup stereotype: Ingroup identification and the management of deviant ingroup members.". British Journal of Social Psychology 41: 365-385. DOI:10.1348/014466602760344269.
- ^ Lewis, A. C.; Sherman, S. J. (2010). "Perceived entitativity and the black-sheep effect: When will we denigrate negative ingroup members?". The Journal of Social Psychology 150: 211-225. DOI:10.1080/00224540903366388.
- ^ De Cremer, D.; Vanbeselaere, N. (1999). "I am deviant, because...: The impact of situational factors upon the black sheep effect.". Psychologica Belgica 39: 71-79.
External links[link]
- Exploration of the etymology of the phrase "black sheep of the family"
- "The black sheep effect: Judgmental extremity towards ingroup members in inter-and intra-group situations". European Journal of Social Psychology (Science Direct) 18 (3): 287–292. DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420180308. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00221031. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
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