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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.33 (search)
nize a brigade, which he did in the summer of 1863, and commanded throughout the war, and he was familiarly known as Mudwall Jackson. The writer desires just here to explain the acquisition of the character of William L. Jackson, as a Confederate loitering there. Some wag of a fellow wrote a doggerel verse on the inside walls of the old Courthouse, entitled Mudwall Jackson, the principal feature of which was a complaint that Mudwall Jackson would not fight. The writer saw this writing aMudwall Jackson would not fight. The writer saw this writing a few days after the retreat of the Federals, and it was understood by the Confederate soldiers as having been put there by a Yankee soldier, and as we Confederates understood it at the time, the animus of the verse was because the then dead Stonewal how fond I was of riding him no pen now can tell. An older brother of mine, who held a commission as captain under Colonel Jackson, and I, started alone on this expedition. The evening of the first day we crossed the Alleghany Mountain into Highl