It was the war's first pitched battle - Bull Run/Manassas.
A Confederate General called Barnard Bee is known to have shouted "There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall!"
Whether this was meant as a compliment, we don't know, as Bee was mortally wounded later in the day, and no-one got the chance to ask him.
The popular interpretation is favourable, and it is claimed that Bee followed his remark with "Rally behind the Virginians!"
The alternative version is that he was criticizing Jackson for not coming across to help Bee's own brigade, who were in trouble.
It was not Andrew Jackson who's name was Stonewall, but it is Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, the Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is called Stonewall because he organized the combat unit, the "Stonewall Brigade." And, he stood strong as a stonewall.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson is the real name of Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
His name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
Name at birth: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson (or "Stonewall" Jackson, as some people called him) was a general the Confederacy. "Stonewall" Jackson earned his name in the first battle of Manassas. His men said, "Look! There's Jackson standing like a stonewall!" Thomas Jackson was a Confederate General in the Civil War. He paired up with Robert E Lee, the other Confederate General. Jackson and Lee saved the army in Gaines Mill, and also blocked an extreme attack in the Second Manassas. Later on in the war, one of General Jackson's men shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville, which caused him to his arm amputated. Eight days later, he died of pneumonia.
At the Battle of First Manassas, General Bernard Bee, in order to rally his men, proclaimed, "Look! There's Jackson standing like a stonewall! Rally behind the Virginians!". Bee was later killed but the name stuck with Jackson to this day.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson is the real name of Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
His name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
Stonewall Jackson
he earned his name by being a general in the civil war
"Stonewall" Jackson's given name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson -- "Stonewall" was a nickname he received during the Civil War as a Major general in the Confederate army. No modern celebrity named Jackson is directly descended from Stonewall Jackson, as his only surviving child was a daughter born in 1862.
Stonewall Jackson's middle name was Jonathan. His full name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
There was Stonewall Jackson, a general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Name at birth: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863)
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
No. Jackson Mississippi was founded long before the Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became famous at the Battle of Manasas. I'm not positive but it was probably named after Andrew Jackson, the President of the US. But "Jackson" is a common name and could be a local Mississippian.