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On the heals of the recent other threads about the final days of Stonewall Jackson (and on the 150th anniversary of his death), a doctor from VMI has tried to confirm the theory that Jackson died of pneumonia.
...being dropped during a frantic nighttime rescue may well have contributed to Jackson's death, DuBose found."If he had been dropped and had a pulmonary contusion, or bruise of the lung, it creates an area of the lung that doesn't clear secretions real well, and it can be a focus that pneumonia can start in," DuBose said. "That's probably what happened in this particular instance."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CIVIL_WAR_150_JACKSONS_DEATH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-10-08-40-05The other theory is that he died from infection.
I would guess complications from an infection would be more likely than anything given how soon he died after being wounded. Civil War era military hospitals were anything but clean. The wonder is not that so many people died of wounds, it is that so many survived the treatment they received in such facilities.
