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[313] and demanded another shot. ‘We agree,’ said Jackson, ‘and we will fight with pistols at ten paces.’ The Captain declined the terms, the men were never reconciled. The Captain died many years after, regretting that he had not killed Lee.

Jackson was a strict constructionist of all orders and of all points of duty.


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