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  military skill and heroic endeavor.
  Andrew Hunter{{LOFE:Tag|/sc}}]
A week after his resignation was written Jackson,
overwhelmed by appeals to remain in the service,
wrote to Governor Letcher as follows:
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  Nomini-Hall, Virginia. June 3d. 1774.
  February 6, 1862
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  It will not be wonderful if I inform you that this Colony is in
  Governor:--Your letter of the 4th inst. was received
  great tumult and confusion. The general Voice is {{LOFE:Tag|i}}Boston{{LOFE:Tag|/i}}. You will
this morning. If my retiring from the army would produce
have heard before the reception of this, that the Governor dissolved
the effect upon our country that you have named in your
the Assembly in this province on their making a resolve to keep
letter, I, of course, could not desire to leave the service, and
 
if, upon receipt of this note, your opinion remains unchanged,
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you are authorized to withdraw my resignation unless the
Secretary of War desires that it should be accepted. My
reasons for resigning were set forth in my letter of the
  31st ult. and my views remain unchanged; and {{LOFE:Tag|i}}if the Secretary
persists in the ruinous policy complained of I feel that
no officer can serve his country better than by making his
strongest possible protest against it, which, in my opinion,
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  Please to make my compliments to Mrs Hunter, Miss Nancy,
  This then was the situation. Stonewall Jackson,
  Andrew, and to Uncles family--I am, sir
with a miserably inferior force, was holding the Valley
  throughout a long winter, and detaining there a
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Your most obedient
Most humble Servt:
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military skill and heroic endeavor.

A week after his resignation was written Jackson,
overwhelmed by appeals to remain in the service,
wrote to Governor Letcher as follows:

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February 6, 1862
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Governor:--Your letter of the 4th inst. was received
this morning. If my retiring from the army would produce
the effect upon our country that you have named in your
letter, I, of course, could not desire to leave the service, and
if, upon receipt of this note, your opinion remains unchanged,
you are authorized to withdraw my resignation unless the
Secretary of War desires that it should be accepted. My
reasons for resigning were set forth in my letter of the
31st ult. and my views remain unchanged; and <i>if the Secretary
persists in the ruinous policy complained of I feel that
no officer can serve his country better than by making his
strongest possible protest against it, which, in my opinion,
is done by tendering his resignation, rather than be a willing
instrument in prosecuting the war upon a ruinous principle</i>.
#/

This then was the situation. Stonewall Jackson,
with a miserably inferior force, was holding the Valley
throughout a long winter, and detaining there a

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