“Dabney was interested in seeking another tour in the army as a chaplain and had been old by General D.H. Hill, a fellow Presbyterian, that he could have a position in his division. In the meantime, Stonewall Jackson had sent his wife away from Winchester to stay with her cousin, Dabney’s wife, Lavinia, at Farmville. Jackson, as a result of his wife’s intercession, offered Dabney the position of chief of staff of the Second Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia” (Sean Michael Lucas, Robert Lewis Dabney, 115).