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Stonewall Jackson
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The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
— Statement to Colonel Thomas T. Munford (13 June 1862); as quoted in Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1904) by George Francis
Stonewall Jackson
General of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War
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A Confederate general whose battlefield brilliance earned him a nickname at Bull Run and a place in tactical textbooks — then an accidental shot by his own men ended the war's most effective Southern commander.
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Born January 21, 1824, in what's now West Virginia, Thomas Jonathan Jackson graduated from West Point in 1846 and distinguished himself at Chapultepec during the Mexican–American War. He taught at the Virginia Military Institute from 1851 until Virginia's secession in May 1861, when he joined the Confederate army. At the First Battle of Bull Run in July, his brigade's reinforcements and defense against a Union assault prompted Barnard E. Bee's comparison to a "stone wall" — the nickname stuck. Over the next two years he commanded with exceptional skill in the eastern theater. On May 2, 1863, C…
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Stonewall Jackson
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Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
— Letter to his wife from Mt. Jackson after the First Battle of Kernstown (24 March 1862), as quoted in Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen.
Stonewall Jackson
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In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade!
— Farewell address to his brigade, as he left to receive his promotion to Major General (4 October 1861)
Stonewall Jackson
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Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.
— Speaking to Captain John D. Imboden (24 July 1861), as quoted in Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander (2000) by John Selby, p. 25;
Stonewall Jackson
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Yesterday we fought a great battle and gained a great victory, for which all the glory is due to God alone.
— Letter to his wife after the First Battle of Bull Run (22 July 1861); as quoted in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow Mary Anna
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