Stonewall Jackson

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That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an amazing general. In
the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, he conquered the North of 60,000 soldiers
with his 17,000 men.

Jackson fought under Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles, the Second Battle of
Run, Antietam, Cedar Mountain and Fredericksburg. His greatest battle
though, was in Chancellorsville in 1863. Jackson’s men took a vast defeat
here. That night though Jackson went ahead of his line to scout and
unknowingly, the password to his fort was changed while he was out. When
he came back and said the wrong password his own men shot him, and his left
arm had to be amputated. Eight days later, on May 10, 1863, he died of
pneumonia. General Lee said, “He has lost his left arm; but I have lost my
right arm,” after the amputation. Jackson was buried at Lexington, VA. He
was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955. ...

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