STONEWALL JACKSON Definition & Meaning

Stonewall Jackson

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noun

nickname of Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

Jackson, “Stonewall”

Thomas J. Jackson, a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War . He got his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run , where he and his men “stood like a stone wall.” He and General Robert E. Lee led the South to victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville . In the evening after the battle was won, however, Jackson was fatally shot by Confederate troops who mistook him and his staff for Union officers.

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Notes

Jackson's dying words, “Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of the trees,” are much remembered.

In the poem “Barbara Frietchie,” by John Greenleaf Whittier, Stonewall Jackson orders his men not to harm Barbara Frietchie or the Union flags she is holding ( see Shoot, if you must, this old gray head ).

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“I really don’t identify with any of the ideals nor really any of what Stonewall Jackson stood for.”

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At the same event, he called Virginia “the state of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.”

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The schools were named after Confederate generals Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and cavalry commander Turner Ashby.

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Recent diversity efforts have included the removal of a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, who taught at VMI, as well as the implementation of diversity training sessions.

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He knew little about the huge rendering of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into a granite mountain in Georgia.

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