Wednesday, May 02, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own soldiers. His flanking march against General Hooker's much more numerous federal troops at Chancellorsville had taken a long time and although the battle was won by early afternoon, the fighting continued into the early evening when it was difficult to distinguish grey from blue. Jackson lost an arm and was recovering when he developed pneumonia which killed him nearly a month later. The general was so revered that there is a marker on the spot where they buried his arm.
Labels: Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
