stonewall jackson

     

He was the only person who died during the Civil War to be featured on Confederate currency

Trivia about stonewall jackson

  • He received his famous nickname when General Bee told his men to look at him "standing like a stone wall"
  • He said, "The name 'Stonewall' ought to be attached wholly to the men of the brigade, and not to me"
  • He earned his nickname at First Bull Run & led 25,000 Confederates at its sequel, Second Bull Run
  • In 1863 Lee wrote to him, "You are better off than I am, for while you have lost your left, I have lost my right arm"
  • Wounded at night by fellow Confederates at Chancellorsville, he died 8 days later
  • General Lee said, "He has lost his left arm" (which was buried in Ellwood, Virginia) "but I have lost my right arm"
  • After his May 10, 1863, death, his boss wrote, "I know not how to replace him"
  • At Bull Run Gen. Barnard Bee gave this Confederate general his famous nickname
  • Fatally shot near the Rappahannock, this general's last words asked to "cross over the river"
  • A victim of friendly fire, this man was born in Clarksburg in what is now West Virginia
  • Once a VMI science & artillery professor, this famous Confederate general is buried near the campus
  • This "rock" of a general was an unpopular teacher at VMI before the Civil War & was often the target of pranks
  • In the Shenandoah valley in 1862, this "granite-like" Virginian's 17,000 men defeated 60,000 union troops
  • A bio of him sums up, "It was by dying when he did", in 1863 that he achieved his military fame
  • In 1863 at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee famously sent this steadfast general to attack the Union flank
  • Called the ablest of Lee's generals, his death by friendly fire in 1863 severely damaged the South's chances