RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Who was Stonewall Jackson?
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The Confederate General who lost the Civil War and surrendered at Appomattox
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A Southern hero at Fredericksburg who lost his arm and then his life
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The Union General who won at Gettysburg
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the 18th President of the US
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-63) was one of the South’s most successful generals during the American Civil War (1861-65). After a difficult childhood, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in time to fight in the Mexican War (1846-48).
Detailed explanation-2: -One of Lee’s ablest commanders, Jackson earned his famous nickname during the First Battle of Manassas in 1861 when a fellow general is said to have cried out, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!
Detailed explanation-3: -Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own troops, his left arm was amputated and buried. But when the general died days later, he was not reunited with his lost limb.
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