He excelled as well at the First Battle of Bull Run (where he received his famous nickname "Stonewall"), Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jackson was not universally successful as a ...

In a way, he was the mirror image of another Virginian, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, the man whose defensive stand saved the Confederate Army at the first Battle of Bull Run.

Resurrecting the names has inflamed tensions in a county with deep ties to battles of the Civil War ... Slavery wasn’t because of Stonewall Jackson.” On Thursday night, at the first school ...

Stonewall Jackson was relocated from campus to a nearby ... a Confederate monument in his South Carolina hometown. The legal battle over the Richmond Robert E. Lee statue's future had a major ...

became famous as the mount of General Stonewall Jackson. Captured at Harpers Ferry by the Confederates, he was chosen initially for Mrs. Jackson but eventually commandeered by the General when his own ...

At the Second Battle of Bull Run ... even in the most desperate moments, led a delirious Stonewall Jackson, on his own deathbed, to call for Hill to "prepare for action." Some historians have ...

Some memorials are dedicated to the foot soldiers of the Confederacy, and many depict famous generals such as Robert E Lee or Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson ... the Confederate "battle flag ...

It starts at Lockwood House, which overlooks what was Harper Cemetery. Originally built in 1848 as housing for the armory ...

recent guests suggest booking one of the serene cottages set along Stonewall Jackson Lake. These cozy, two- to four-bedroom accommodations feature private decks with gas grills, hardwood floors ...

After this battle yields 2,950 Union and 1,750 Confederate ... including the loss of another famous Confederate, General "Stonewall" Jackson. End of June 1863 Lee's army is in high spirits and ...

The Battle of Chancellorsville was part of yet another attempt by the Union to secure the Confederate capital. Despite being outnumbered by the Union and the loss of 'Stonewall' Jackson, this battle ...