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Sorry if this has been asked earlier, I haven't found anything to answer my question...
I have just watched the Civil War Journal episode about Stonewall Jackson @Rebel Rally Point had shown us in this thread:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/civil-war-journal-stonewall-jackson.124250/
In this episode one of the historians, I think it was either Robertson or Krick, mentioned that the famous sentence "There stands Jackson like a stone wall!” said by Gen. Barnard Bee at First Manassas maybe was not at all meant as a compliment. Bee might have wanted to say that Jackson simply did nothing while others were fighting hard. Personally I cannot believe that. If sources are right, Bee said not just that sentence, but two sentences: “Rally behind the Virginians! There stands Jackson like a stone wall!”
In that context, it can only be meant as a compliment in my opinion. But these unexpected twists always fascinate me.
What do you all think about it? Was Bee mistaken? Was Jackson maybe just meditating in the face of the enemy, doing nothing to help?
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