...— tell" — then the scene changed, and the battle-fire died out of his eyes, and saying softly, " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees," he fell asleep. General Thomas J. Jackson was at the same time an undaunted soldier and a gentle Christian....

...Flag ! All hearts adoring, Sing to thee their loving song. LAST WORDS OF GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON. " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.' Upon his weary couch of pain he lay, The hero of a hundred fields of strife, And as his pulse gently...

...Hawks — " The sentence was never completed. A smile spread over the pale face, and he whispered, " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." With these beautiful and typical words trembling upon his lips, the Christian soldier sank to eternal...

...to his sorrowing wife when she informed him that his chances for recovery were very doubtful. 538. " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.'1' 539. He and Pemberton were sitting in the shade of a tree negotiating for the surrender of...

...alarmed you? Oh, do not cry. Be good children and we will all meet in heaven." Stonewall Jackson : " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." John Keats : " I feel the daisies growing over me." John Kitto : " Pray to God to take me soon." General...

...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 ;" and then, without pain or the least struggle, his spirit passed from earth to the (!od who gave...

...Chancellorsville, he was mortally wounded by his own men, who mistook him for the enemy. His last words were "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." He died May 10th, 1863. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans,...

...Tell Major Jfawks to send forward prot'isions for the men!*1 issued from his lips at in* tervals. " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees! " were the hist words he uttered before he himself crossed the dark river that separates this life...

...rather be right than to be president." " Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable." " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." " On to Richmond." "This is the last of earth ; I am content." " Thos. Jefferson still survives." "Give...

...Hawks — " The sentence was never completed. A smile spread over the pale face, and he whispered, " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." With these beautiful and typical words trembling upon his lips, the Christian soldier sank to eternal...