Stonewall Jackson

Jackson didn't want to be unfair so he ate the food his men ate.

Confederate icon to be, Stonewall Jackson had been a thorn in the side of Union forces based on his forays in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Jackson won at Front Royal and Winchester concerned US President Lincoln. So much so that he withheld McDowell's forces from McClellan's Peninsula campaign. This freed the Union division of James Shields to join General Fremont in the Shenandoah Valley with the purpose of destroying Jackson's army. Lincoln made the error, as often happened of breaking the chain of command and directly giving offensive orders to Union field generals. Jackson knew that Union forces were closing in on him and after several skirmishes, reached Port Republic. Jackson was now a force positioned between Fremont to the north and Shield to the east. This enabled him to take full advantage of the place where the North and South rivers converged to form South Fork of the Shenandoah River. With the use of his artillery and infantry, Jackson prevented the forces of Shields and Fremont to unite. He then could deal with both Union armies separately. The bottomline was that in the course the Battle of Port Republic, he was able to defeat Union forces which had a numerical troop advantage.

This was a demoralizing defeat for the enemy. With his enemies on the run, Jackson would eventually be able to reinforce Robert E. Lee's defenses of Richmond. Few historians believe that Lincoln had any cause for worry that Jackson would endanger Washington DC. His interference in breaking the chain of command would alienate McClellan and more importantly, the key officers of the Army of the Potomac that were fiercely loyal to McClellan.

Stonewall Jackson's infantry occupied Frederick, Maryland on September 6, 1862. Soon after he was joined by General James Longstreet. This town played a big role in Lee's raid into Maryland.

A few days before the Second Battle of Bull Run was to begin, Union General John Pope had been unable to locate Stonewall Jackson and the danger this presented. There was lack of communications within the newly formed Army of Virginia. The reinforcements Pope received were a positive, however, there was enough time to properly integrate the reinforcements with the Army of Virginia. The devastating result was that Stonewall Jackson was able to assault Pope's unprotected supply base at Manassas and cut off Pope's lines of communication with Washington DC. Jackson's forces were then able to loot supplies, ammunition, clothing, shoes and uniforms. What could not be carried with them was burned. Jackson was also able to destroy the railways Pope needed to transport troops.

He was the perfect team-partner of Robert E. Lee.

Lee would devise the bold, risk-taking movements, Jackson would carry them out.

Simply providing the manpower to fill the rank-and-file, since every male over 18 was liable for the draft in boh armies. But many did not wait to be drafted, and would pretend to be older than their age in order to get into uniform.

At one battle, the Union army was routed by a company of cadets from the Virginia Military Institute. These were probably all teenagers.

By defeating Lee, he pretty much ended the Civil War. But he lost several times to Lee in the last year of the war, but had unlimited resources that Lee could not match.

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The matter is worth being explained from the point of view of

Union grand strategy of 1864.

After his appointment to General in Chief, he reorganized the Union Army and its chain of command and, in full accordance with Lincoln he made up a general plan of operations.

Based upon what that plan foresaw, all Union armies, fighting on the various war fronts had to act in a coordinated way, as per the orders given them by the General Staff.

The main objectives were:

1- of maintain all Confederate fronts under the greatest pressure possible in order to make impossible or, extremely difficult, the displacement of reserves and supplies between the Western and Eastern Front and vice verse,

2 - of destroy the adversary armies.

Grant, who had elected his Headquarters by the Army of Potomac, applying those concepts and using the strategic intimidation by menacing Richmond succeeded in making Lee pinned down to his initiative, his endless pressure and deprived of his freedom of movement, until the Confederate general was forced to fight within about thirty kilometers from the Capital of the Confederacy.

Sherman's March to the Sea and the definitive conquest of the Shenandoah Valley signed the ultimate fate of Lee's army: the surrender of Appomattox.

Of course Grant was able to carry out successfully his campaign also thanks to the great resources at his disposal. Anyhow it's worth remembering that those resources existed also when McClellan was General in Chief and was supported by the whole Union, but he was not up to the task and the Union top military leaders of those years either.

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It's a tempting thought that the victorious Lee-Jackson partnership might have gone on to win Gettysburg, and then the war.

But they would have to have actually destroyed the Union army, not just defeated it. And there were no signs that that would have happened. The tide was turning against the Confederates by that time. Only if Lincoln got voted out in '64 would the South have got its independence.

He was a tough and stone general, during the Civil War.

No they are not related. Joshua DOES have a half brother named Jonathan from his father's side. However, Jonathan's parent's names are different.

Cedar Mountain.

He was an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute.

There were two singers named Chuck Jackson. The one that is Rev. Jesse Jackson's brother was a singer with a group called "The Independents". He later became a songwriter duo with the late Marvin Yancey (Natalie Cole's first husband). Together Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancey were very successful writers and producers for Natalie Cole.

"StoneWall Jackson" real name is Thomas Jackson who was on the Confederacy/southern side of the Civil War. He earned his name from standing still in the middle of a battle field as if he were made of stone.

See related link below for photographs. Scroll down on the page for the second image, which is more flattering. He had dark brown hair and beard, and very blue eyes. Another of his nicknames was "Old Blue Light", a reference to his eyes and his deeply religious nature. There was a type of Presbyterians called "blue lights" in that time.

The Shenandoah Valley is a very rich and fertile agricultural area. It produced much of the food that fed the Confederate Army in Virginia. Jackson's Valley campaign was about keeping the Valley from being overrun and occupied by the Yankees, which would deny this crucial source of food to the Rebels. Jackson had about 18,000 men. There were three separate Yankee armies ranged around the Valley, each as large or larger than Jackson's force. By rapid marches, which astonished the world for the distance covered, Jackson managed to confront, surprise and defeat each of these Yankee forces. The efforts of Jackson and his "foot cavalry" (so called for the distance and rapidity of their marches) tied up in excess of 60,000 Yankee troops, and kept those Yankees from participating in the effort of McClellan to capture Richmond, which was going on at the same time. Jackson's Valley Campaign is the only campaign of the Civil War which is still studied at military schools and academies such as West Point and VMI (where Jackson was a faculty member before the war), because it is still relevant in the lessons to be drawn from it today.

Stonewall Jackson was a confederate general. He earned his nickname in 1861 at the first battle of Bull Run/Manassas by standing like a "stonewall" with his brigade against Union troops. Jackson's reputation as a military genius was established in 1862 in the campaign at Shenandoah Valley. His army was known as a "foot cavalry" while the Confederates battled and defeated combined a Union army three times their number. He joined Robert E. Lee in a showdown against McClellan, but failed to destroy him. Jackson was at fault for the the inability of Lee to destroy McClellan because he was slow and passive. Stonewall went on to fight at the second battle of Bull Run in 1862, recaptured Harper's Ferry and saved Lee at Antietam as well as fighting at Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862. Jackson will be shot by friendly fire at Chancellorsville in 1863 and was dead a week later from pneumonia.

He was accidentally shot by his own men while doing a night time scout. He died a few days later.

Jackson earned his name during the civil war at the battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861. his troops yelled,"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!"this showed jacksons bravery there for earning him the name Stonewall 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.

When "Stonewall" Jackson died, Robert E. Lee said, "As Jackson has lost his left arm, I have lost my right."

Name at birth: Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Up from the meadows rich with corn,

Clear in the cool September morn,

The clustered spires of Frederick stand

Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.

Round about them orchards sweep,

Apple- and peach-tree fruited deep,

Fair as a garden of the Lord

To the eyes of the famished rebel horde,

On that pleasant morn of the early fall

When Lee marched over the mountain wall,-

Over the mountains winding down,

Horse and foot, into Frederick town.

Forty flags with their silver stars,

Forty flags with their crimson bars,

Flapped in the morning wind: the sun

Of noon looked down, and saw not one.

Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,

Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

Bravest of all in Frederick town,

She took up the flag the men hauled down;

In her attic window the staff she set,

To show that one heart was loyal yet.

Up the street came the rebel tread,

Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.

Under his slouched hat left and right

He glanced: the old flag met his sight.

"Halt!"- the dust-brown ranks stood fast.

"Fire!"- out blazed the rifle-blast.

It shivered the window, pane and sash;

It rent the banner with seam and gash.

Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff

Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf;

She leaned far out on the window-sill,

And shook it forth with a royal will.

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,

But spare your country's flag," she said.

A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,

Over the face of the leader came;

The nobler nature within him stirred

To life at that woman's deed and word:

"Who touches a hair of yon gray head

Dies like a dog! March on!" he said.

All day long through Frederick street

Sounded the tread of marching feet:

All day long that free flag tost

Over the heads of the rebel host.

Ever its torn folds rose and fell

On the loyal winds that loved it well;

And through the hill-gaps sunset light

Shone over it with a warm good-night.

Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er,

And the Rebel rides on his raids no more.

Honor to her! and let a tear

Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier.

Over Barbara Frietchie's grave

Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!

Peace and order and beauty draw

Round thy symbol of light and law;

And ever the stars above look down

On thy stars below in Frederick town!