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SUMMARY The Stonewall Brigade was a collection of five Virginia infantry regiments and an artillery battery in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Trained and first led by Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, it was perhaps the most accomplished—and certainly one of the most famous—units of its kind in American military history. The brigade saw action in many of the bloodiest battles of the war, from First Manassas (1861) to Antietam (1862) to Gettysburg (1863) to Spotsylvania Court House (1864), losing only a single engagement under Jacks...

Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye It certainly did not merit the courtroom gymnastics of that fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, and regardless of whatever intoxicant Sherlock Holmes may have consumed that day, the famous detective would not deem to consider it. But in September 1894, the mystery of Nyhart’s oats was just about the most exciting crime on Burlington’s court dockets. The basics of the case were relatively straightforward. A.J. Nyhart farmed in the northern reaches of Des Moines County. That summer he had produced a bumper crop of grain. After an early harvest, he had seven stacks ...

june said, oh, that the union could find someone as dashing and plucky as this stonewall jackson. one of the favorite court-martials i have ever seen among the 88,000 was of a quartermaster named simms in the fall of 1862. simms was court-martialed for treason. what he had said was, stonewall jackson has whipped us every time we fight him. and for saying such an outrageous thing, he was found guilty. a pennsylvanian, june '62, i'm sorry to say i have frequently heard our men talk as though they believe jackson could not be whipped. in fact, he has to become what might be called a bug...