Stonewall Jackson

[stohn-wawl]

noun

1. nickname of Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

Jackson, “Stonewall”

1. Thomas J. Jackson, a general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He got his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he and his men “stood like a stone wall.” He and General Robert E. Lee led the South to victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the evening after the battle was won, however, Jackson was fatally shot by Confederate troops who mistook him and his staff for Union officers.

Jackson's dying words, “Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of the trees,” are much remembered.

In the poem “Barbara Frietchie,” by John Greenleaf Whittier, Stonewall Jackson orders his men not to harm Barbara Frietchie or the Union flags she is holding (see Shoot, if you must, this old gray head).

Example Sentences

When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys, O'Dwyers, McCarthys�"The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you; but it really does not matter whom you put upon the list, for they'd none of 'em be missed�they'd none of 'em be missed."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was these boys who made Thomas Jonathan Jackson, "Stonewall Jackson;" who put Robert E. Lee's name in the hall of fame and who lifted J.E.B.

From Project Gutenberg

In all these battles Lee’s most effective helper was General Thomas J. Jackson, “Stonewall” Jackson, as he was called.

From Project Gutenberg

President Davis got off the train at the junction yonder, and as he rode across this field, where we are now, the woods yonder were full of our men, flying from the Henry House Hill, where Sherman had cut General Bee's brigade to pieces and was routing Jackson—'Stonewall,' we call him now, because General Bonham, when he brought up the reserves, shouted, 'See, there, where Jackson stands like a stone wall!'

From Project Gutenberg

He was in the thickest of the fight, near Professor Jackson—Stonewall, they call him now.

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