the certainty that he actually believed that in every fiber of his being is just about unvoid unavoidable. anything that anybody tells you today, good news is you don't have to believe me, them or us. all of this material is available. it's not like the french and indian war in which i worked briefly where there are six accounts of the battle where i was posted for a while. you can read jackson to your heart's content and you can come to grips with it. i'll be surprised it if when you're done you do not believe that his attitude toward all of this was that it had nothing at all to do with him, he was merely the vessel through which god was doing things for his chosen people of the confederate states of america. while the rest of you contemplate something further, let me make an appeal that i always do when i get on my behind legs in front of people, even people who are not the friends of civil war preservation that you all ought to be. to support the preservation efforts that we're all involved in, the civil with an trust in washington, the central virginia battlefields trust, richmond ba