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U.S. Generals Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/12/2013
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Series of famous generals that helped shape our country and fought for our freedom. These locations will require great stealth just like the troops that fought for these generals on the battlefield. Good Luck and Happy Caching.



Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate Army

So much has been said about “Stonewall” Jackson’s masterful maneuvering in the Shenandoah Valley that it almost seems redundant to mention it here. What I will say is that had Jackson not been killed, and had Lee had him at Gettysburg, the war might indeed have had a different outcome.

Whenever I think of Jackson, I think of the Battle of Chancellorsville where Jackson’s Confederates appeared out of nowhere, smashing into the Union Army’s right flank and literally rolling up the encamped Federal force. Sadly, that night Jackson was mortally wounded – his left arm shattered –in a friendly fire incident during a leaders-recon mission. Following the amputation of Jackson’s arm, Gen. Robert E. Lee remarked, “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm.” Worse for Lee, Jackson would develop pneumonia and die within eight days.

http://www.humanevents.com/2010/11/16/the-big-10-americas-greatest-generals/

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