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Stonewall Jackson

noun

General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863). Synonyms: Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

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... perhaps the best general of all; its military surveys were made, every Southern State mapped, and every strategical point marked; its subordinate officers, in which the real efficiency of an army consists, had been educated in military schools kept by such teachers as Hill and Stonewall Jackson. It had a full crop of cotton as a basis for finance. Its government was practically such a despotism as does not exist in the world. At the sound of the first gun in Charleston, the aristocracy sprang ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... South, and her "Beechenbrook: a Rhyme of the War" contains the poems, "Stonewall Jackson's Grave" and "Slain in Battle." Her later writings are mostly short poems, many of them religious, articles for magazines, and sketches of travel, all of which breathe forth a sweet ...

— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

Words linked to "Stonewall Jackson" : Jackson, full general, Thomas J. Jackson, general, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Thomas Jackson