THE LESSON OF APPOMATTOX... LEARN IT OR DIE By Alan Stang

"Recently, I walked across the battlefield at Manassas, where the Yankees expected to win. They came out from Washington, some 25 miles, with picnic baskets and their women, expecting a day’s entertainment. They would defeat the troublesome, uppity, amateurish rednecks and go home, the preposterous idea of secession dismissed. It was July 21st, 1861.

It didn’t work out that way, but it could have. The Confederate forces were seriously outnumbered. General Bernard Bee’s Alabama forces were retreating. They stopped when Bee, who died there, shouted, “Form, form, follow the Virginians. Look. There stands Jackson like a stone wall.” Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson did stand like a stone wall. He still stands there, in the saddle, his statue looking out across the battlefield. "

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