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title: 'Stonewall Jackson: “What is Life Without Honor?”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-12-24
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-stonewall-jackson-what-is-life-without-honor
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# Stonewall Jackson: “What is Life Without Honor?”

“We must think of the living and of those who are to come after us, and see that, with God’s blessing, we transmit to them the freedom we have enjoyed. What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death.” — [**Stonewall Jackson**](/authors/thomas-jonathan-stonewall-jackson) in [Mary Anna Morrison Jackson](/authors/mary-anna-morrison-jackson), *Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson)* (1892), p. 170