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| The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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| Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Jackson, Thomas Jonathan 1824-1863
Military officer; born in Clarksburg, Va., Jan. 21, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1846, entering the 2d Artillery; served in the war with Mexico; was brevetted captain and major; and resigned in 1852 with health impaired, becoming professor in the Military Institute at Lexington, Va. He entered the Confederate service, as colonel, in April, 1861, and commanded the Army of observation at Harper's Ferry.
His first engagement was at Falling Waters.
Jackson commanded a brigade in the battle of Bull Run, where he received the name of Stonewall.
A furious charge, made by a New York
Thomas J. ( Stonewall ) Jackson. regiment, under Col. Henry W. Slocum, had shattered the Confederate line, and the troops had fled to a plateau whereon General Jackson had just arrived with reserves.
They are beating us back!
exclaimed Gen. Bernard E. Bee. Well, sir, replied Jackson, we will give them the bayonet.
Bee was encouraged.
Form! Form!
he cried to t