[Non-Sequitur]

That blacks would sneak past Union sentries to put flowers upon Stonewall's grave speaks volumes.

Why on Earth would the Union Army post sentries over Jackson's grave?

[Gondring]

>>That blacks would sneak past Union sentries to put flowers upon Stonewall's grave speaks volumes.

>Why on Earth would the Union Army post sentries over Jackson's grave?

I've seen a few citations of such incidents, and it wasn't clear to me in all of them that the sentries were right at the Jackson grave itself, or at VMI in general, or what--but the implication was that they wanted to prevent any celebration of this hero via embellishment of his grave. I'm not sure if there was a single incident of the one black boy's decoration, or if it happened more than once.

And of course, blacks loved Stonewall because he ran a "colored Sunday school," where he taught "Negroes" how to read and how to achieve salvation. Funny thing..they never taught us about such things when I was growing up in The evil Empire State.