[Non-Sequitur]

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.

I think that's one of the lost cause myths.

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.

Jackson didn't run the school, it was sponsored by the Presbyterian Church he was a member of. Black Sunday schools were common throughout the south, Jackson wasn't unique in teaching in one. The schools taught scripture, not reading, and were for both free blacks and slaves. Some of the slaves attending belonged to Jackson himself.

[Gondring]

He taught a class, and yes it was sponsored by the church. (But if you know so much about this, surely you recall that Jackson sent funds himself from the field back to Lexington for the school.)

So what if black sunday schools were common throughout the South? Why would that diminish the fact that it was a very different situation from what is often portrayed in Northern grade schools today? It only illustrates my point more.

And yes, it was for both free and slaves...again, even slaves were taught (which conflicts with what was taught to me in grade school). And the sources I have seen have pretty clearly indicated that reading WAS taught...else no mention would be made of him violating laws against teaching blacks to read! Where are you getting your claim?