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STONEWALL FORUM BEST OF 2019
2019 has been a relatively quiet year for the Stonewall Jackson Forum, so I hope you will forgive me for including a couple of my own threads visiting the sites of Stonewall's battles at Groveton/Second Manassas and Antietam to round out others previously posted:
Stonewall Jackson at Groveton, August 28, 1862 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Part I - Background to the Campaign of Second Manassas "Jackson's headquarters were near Jefferson on the 24th (of August, 1862)… A council of war was held at the General's Headquarters that afternoon. It was a curious scene. A table was placed almost in the middle of a field, with not even...
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Stonewall Jackson at Antietam, September, 1862 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Part I - The Maryland Campaign Opens Artist Mort Kunstler depicts Stonewall Jackson and his staff at his command post at the Dunker Church during the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. The Confederate Invasion of Maryland, September, 1862 Following the August, 1862 campaign that...
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Several have concentrated as usual on his wounding at Chancellorsville and subsequent death:
An account of the wounding of Stonewall Jackson | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
by Alfred H.H. Tolar, Captain Company K, Eighteenth Regiment North Carolina Troops. "As an eyewitness to the affair I desire to make some statement of facts as they have impressed themselves on my mind and to call as witnesses for concurrence the gallant Major T.J. Wooten, of the Eighteenth...
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The Mortal Wounding of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, May 2, 1863 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Above, artist Mark Churms captures the moment the night of May 2, 1863 during the Battle of Chancellorsville when Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson below was felled by a volley fired by his own men, members of the 26th North Carolina of Lane's Brigade of A. P. Hill's Division. By the...
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Could Jackson have Survived his Wounding? | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
I will admit my knowledge of the exact medical nature of Jackson's wounding, and am too squeamish to look up details myself. Here's what little I know: On the evening of May 2nd, 1863, Jackson and his staff was riding back from a reconnaissance, when men from Major John Barry's 18th North...
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Notable threads concerning aspects of Jackson's personality and legacy have included:
Study of the leadership displayed by Lt Gen Thomas Jonathan Jackson during the American Civil War | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Collection; Master of Military Art and Science Theses Title; Study of the leadership displayed by Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson during the American Civil War. Author; Casto, Perry C., Jr. Abstract; Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson is considered one of the greatest...
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I'm a Yankee who admires Gen Jackson | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Jackson at Manssass Full disclosure I am a red Blooded Yankee. All my family branches and twigs can be traced back to the Pre Civil War North. I have 44 ancestors that fought for the North. Last year my son and I made a trip to Virginia and while there visited these Stonewall Jackson sites. As I...
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How To Profit From A General's Death, Jackson Attends A Seance... In 1864 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
From Miller's series, in public access. The devoutly religious General Jackson and part of his staff. We can't communicate with him but it seems fair to say he'd have just detested this article from 1864. ' Spiritism ', i.e. conversing with dead people was a huge, big deal through the war...
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Question on Jackson's Relationship w/ Maxcy Gregg and A.P. Hill | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Did Thomas Jackson have quarrels with either of these generals? And if so, why? IIRC, Jackson wasn't one to easily get along with.
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And another review of a perennial classic memoir including much information on the general:
I Rode With Stonewall, By Henry Kyd Douglas | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
I Rode With Stonewall The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson’s Staff Henry Kyd Douglas This autobiographical memoir written by Henry Kyd Douglas overflows with first hand insights into not only one of the Civil War’s greatest generals, Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, it also...
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