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Stonewall Bump!
To: stainlessbanner
VMI Cadets at Stonewall Jackson's grave, ca. 1868. From the VMI Archives photograph collection.
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for posting this.
BTW, this article was in our local paper yesterday.
CD
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks for the ping! Dixie Bump!!
17 posted on
11/11/2002 7:42:35 AM PST by
TomServo
To: stainlessbanner
Jackson's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley in the summer of 1862 are one of the highest examples of the military art known. By rapid and daring maneuver, and skilled use of deception, he repeatedly kept a much larger enemy in the dark as to his whereabouts, and showed up with overwhelming force where least expected. On occasion, he even removed his entire army from the valley to assist Lee closer to Richmond, without the federals being aware he was gone. Had this simple modest man been at Gettysburg, history would likely have been quite different. All honor to Jackson!
To: stainlessbanner
Stonewall Bump indeed!
32 posted on
11/11/2002 9:07:18 AM PST by
wardaddy
To: stainlessbanner
No one has mentioned so far that the South was winning until Jackson was shot.
33 posted on
11/11/2002 9:07:50 AM PST by
Chemnitz
To: stainlessbanner
Salute to the man who kicked "Fighting Joe" Hooker's ass at Chancellorsville! A gallant soldier and superb tactician. The Yankees couldn't field a General who was his equal.
79 posted on
11/15/2002 7:44:35 PM PST by
Colt .45
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