JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN

born Jan. 21, 1824, Clarksburg, Va. [now in W.Va.], U.S. died May 10, 1863, Guinea Station [now Guinea], Va. byname Stonewall Jackson 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. Additional reading Douglas S. Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, 4 vol. (194246), makes exhaustive use of all available sources. F.E. Vandiver, The Mighty Stonewall (1957), offers an objective and penetrating analysis of Jackson the man, with less detail of military activities. G.F.R. Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, 2 vol. (1898; reprinted in 1 vol., 1937), was the classic life of Jackson and story of the war in Virginia until Freeman's work appeared.