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Stonewall Jackson
(redirected from Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson)

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Noun1.Stonewall Jackson - 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)Stonewall Jackson - 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)


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Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson disagreed on strategy, the turning point battle that was never necessary, how the Confederate army never implemented its strategy to negate the Union's advantages in manpower and weaponry, how Abraham Lincoln saw the Union's problems better than the Confederacy's leaders, and how the South failed to learn from the lessons of its 1863 victory at Chancellorsville.
And the couple's neighbours nicknamed him Stonewall, after Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, who is buried in Lexington.
 
 
 
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