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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Example Sentences

Excerpted from Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne.

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Their soldiers' confidence in Stonewall Jackson and Lee doubled the effective strength of their armies.

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Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.

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This abode of the dead is known as the Stonewall Jackson cemetery, in honor of that brave and true-hearted soldier.

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The rest of the night was spent in retailing for his instruction stories of the ways of Stonewall Jackson.

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As he seems to have no scruples in telling strange stories about Stonewall Jackson, Jeb.

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