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Jackson's brilliant and fearless battlefield maneuvers scored a series of victories over superior Union forces into May 1863, when Jackson met his untimely death from pneumonia.

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'''Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson''' was a United States Army officer who later joined the Confederate States Army and fought in the [[American Civil War]], where during the First Battle of Bull Run he earned his famous nickname '''"Stonewall"'''. His battlefield tactics and maneuvers are still studied as part of military curriculum.

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Jackson was America's finest general in the 19th century, while [[George Patton]] was the finest of the 20th century. Jackson's brilliant and fearless battlefield maneuvers scored a series of victories over superior Union forces into May 1863, when Jackson met his untimely death from pneumonia.

==Early life==

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