(Civil War Forensics) Surgeon: Pneumonia Likely Killed 'Stonewall' Jackson

The Charleston Gazette ^ | May 10, 2013 | The Charleston Gazette

[DogByte6RER]

Painting of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson by Mort Künstler

[DogByte6RER]

This tombstone in Orange County, Va., marks the spot where "Stonewall" Jackson's arm was buried after amputation.

[JRandomFreeper]

"Unfortunately, medicine in the mid-19th century was still in the Dark Ages,"

Like we aren't today. They gutted me like a fish in Dec 2009. I did survive it. It is barbaric.

/johnny

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**”Stonewall” Jackson by Mort Künstler ***

Mort Kunsler was one of the fine artists of the men’s magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. They would do a painting, then do a story around it.

[Inyo-Mono]

Proud to say that my four time great-grandmother from Clarksburg, VA (now W.V) was Stonewall Jackson’s aunt.

[LibWhacker]

Perhaps of medical or strict historical interest. But common sense tells you, he died as a result of his wounds.

[ryan71]

General Robert E Lee was quoted as saying “Jackson has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right”.

[bakeneko]

This appeared in a local major market newspaper.... The point exactly? This article sounds like the kind of thing I wrote in boy scouts to get my journalism merit badge.

Many of these employed as such journalists should consider themselves lucky that they didn’t have to meet THOSE standards.

[pallis]

I’ve always wondered if Jackson would have survived had they gotten him up, walking around in the sun, and getting a little D-3.

[Intolerant in NJ]

A quite elegant death if I remember correctly - supposedly said at the end “let’s cross the river boys, and rest in the shade of the trees”.....

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Gettysburg would have very differently had Jackson been there, he being the most brilliant flanker of the war.

[yarddog]

I have read somewhere that Jackson’s physician was considered perhaps the best Dr. in the country. He was also one of the youngest.

He was later president of the AMA. On the day Jackson died, he seemed to be recovering a bit but Dr. McGuire told Jackson’s family that he would die that day.

[JRandomFreeper]

A quite elegant death if I remember correctly

There are worse things to aspire to.

/johnny

[RedMonqey]

Gettysburg would have very differently had Jackson been there

Jackson had the "gravitas"(sp)that the other generals lacked to challenge Lee's fateful decision to charge the well fortified positions the Union established.

Victory on the Gettysburg battlefield was at long odds prospect even if with faithful Jackson at Lee's call and an withdrawal from the would have only prolonged the war.

Given the might of the industrialized north, the South's only hope of ending the war rested upon the political defeat of Lincoln in the upcoming election.



Lee took the gamble, lost and thus the war was essentially over...

Just my humble opinion.

[pepsionice]

It’s hard to admit it....that one simple bad decision, which amounted to a twenty-minute effort, triggered the end of the war.

Everyone, at some point in their life, needs to make a trip to Gettysburg...spend an entire day there....and get the layout of the land and the battle.

[Shadowstrike]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as Southern as you can be, but doesn’t it bother anyone that they WASTED a ton of money on something like this?

The man has been dead for 150 YEARS! Who CARES what killed him? It was how he lived that was important.

[Secret Agent Man]

blood loss, opportunistic infection, sepsis and/or pneumonia, possible blood clots complicting things, shock.

[Democrat_media]

I wish we in the South would have won

[0.E.O]

I thought that the fact that Jackson died of pneumonia was established long ago.

[0.E.O]

Jackson had the "gravitas"(sp)that the other generals lacked to challenge Lee's fateful decision to charge the well fortified positions the Union established.

Would he have challenged it though? He never argued with Lee on any other orders.