...n unofficially known in the army before, and which name it had received on the plains of Manassas on the 21st of July, 1861, when the brave Bee pointed to the First Virginia brigade, under command of General Jackson , and said to his brave men, retiring, before overwhelming odds: There stands Jackson and his Virginians like a stone wall. The compliment was paid to the brigade for its gallant stand as much as to...