"Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862;[1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate sergeant after the First Battle of Winchester, May 25, 1862.

[2] It is possible this alternative origin story was concocted to prevent Palmer, from Baltimore, from being arrested as a Confederate sympathizer.

Pile on the rails, Stir up the camp-fire bright; No matter if the canteen fails, We'll make a rousing night!

Here Shenandoah brawls along, And burly Blue-Ridge echoes strong, To swell our brigade's rousing song Of "Stonewall Jackson's way."

We see him now, - the old slouched hat, Cocked o'er his eye askew; The shrewd, dry smile, - the speech so pat, So calm, so blunt, so true.

Appealing from his native sod, In forma pauperis to God, Say "tare Thine arm; stretch forth thy rod, Amen!"

Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on; Thy life shall not be all forlorn The foe had better ne'er been born That gets in "Stonewall's way.

"[4] In addition to the titular Confederate Army Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson (also referenced by another nickname, “Old Blue Light“), the poem mentions, only by surname, several other famous officers on both sides of the American Civil War—in sequential order: