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Thomas Jonathan Jackson   /tˈɑməs dʒˈɑnəθən dʒˈæksən/   Listen
Thomas Jonathan Jackson

noun
1.
General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863).  Synonyms: Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jackson.






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"Thomas jonathan jackson" Quotes from Famous Books



... government has seen fit to do what General Lee advises it to do, and we are now the Second Army Corps, two thousand officers, twenty-five thousand men and one hundred and thirty guns, commanded by Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan Jackson, better known to his enemy as 'Stonewall' Jackson and to his men as ...
— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Lee in the hearts of the Southern soldiers was Thomas Jonathan Jackson, better known by the sobriquet of "Stonewall," which General Bee gave him during the first battle of Bull Run. Driven back by the Union onset, the Confederate left had retreated a mile or more, when it reached the plateau ...
— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson



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