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  • March 18, 2010 at 7:37 am #2028 Reply
    Phidippides
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    A bit long, but here's an article (actually from 1990) which examines the circumstances surrounding the well-known account of the naming of Stonewall Jackson (“There stands Jackson like a stone wall!”).  How much is fact, how much is fiction?Hennessy on the Naming of ?Stonewall?

    March 18, 2010 at 2:55 pm #19632 Reply
    Wally
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    Like much of history, one can only present both sides and the “evidence” and hope the reader will take the middle ground.

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