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"Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead," wrote R. E. Lee to Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824-1863) after learning that Jackson had been wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. A native of Clarksburg (now West Virginia), Jackson earned his nickname "Stonewall" at the first battle of Manassas.

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