... soldiers carrying a covered corpse and marching with bowed heads to the beat of the muffled drums. Who is it that they are carrying, she asked with white lips. And the simple answer came back. Stonewall Jackson . The death of General Jackson, said Mrs. Semmes, cast a shadow on the fortunes of the Confederacy that reached to the catastrophe of the war. His death was not only a loss to his country; it was...