The Man Who Stood His Ground

Thomas Jackson went to serve in a Mexican war with Jackson’s success he resigned from the military to teach at the Confederate army in 1861. Jackson got his nickname in the first Manassas.

In Jackson’s first year his battlefield was affective. But later in that year in the second Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg the southern had success.

Thomas Jackson was important to the civil war because he stood his ground for the South and he was one of the most dependent general for the South.

Jackson said in his exact words that "the battle was touched and goes depending on how fast reinforcements reached either side."

General Barnard E. Bee saw Jackson standing straight and tall and preparing to fight and said, "Look there's Jackson standing like a stonewall." From that, he got his nickname stonewall.