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Confederate general
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Also known as: Thomas Jonathan Jackson
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Charlton W. Tebeau
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Author of A History of Florida.
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Stonewall Jackson (born January 21, 1824, Clarksburg, Virginia [now in West Virginia], U.S.—died May 10, 1863, Guinea Station [now Guinea], Virginia) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, one of its most skillful tacticians, who gained his sobriquet “Stonewall” by his stand at the First Battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas by the South) in 1861. The early death of his father, who left little support for the family, and his mother’s...

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