ans of combating some of his health problems. This habit, of course, earned him the nickname, "Lemon Sucker." In the postwar years, Jackson had also found some relief for his problems of temperament when he acquired religious faith. His "well-defined devotion to duty and a disciplined life-style was the product of his Bible-based theology," and this new faith suited Jackson's determined character. During the unhappy years at Lexington, Jackson devoted himself to the interests of his Presbyterian church, the Sunday school for the black community that he had founded, and the study of military history and tactics. In the long evenings during his teaching career, Jackson put a "prodigious mental effort" into the preparation of his lectures, and, along with the knowledge he acquired, his intensive studies "so disciplined his thought processes that he was able to adopt similar methods to prepare his long-range plans as a general in the field."
Numerous personal recollections of Jackson were recorded throughout the years after his death. But, the esse
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