Painting of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson by Mort Künstler Painting of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson by Mort Künstler
This tombstone in Orange County, Va., marks the spot where "Stonewall" Jackson's arm was buried after amputation.Like we aren't today. They gutted me like a fish in Dec 2009. I did survive it. It is barbaric.
/johnny
**”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.
Proud to say that my four time great-grandmother from Clarksburg, VA (now W.V) was Stonewall Jackson’s aunt.
Perhaps of medical or strict historical interest. But common sense tells you, he died as a result of his wounds.
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.
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”.....
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.
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.
blood loss, opportunistic infection, sepsis and/or pneumonia, possible blood clots complicting things, shock.
I wish we in the South would have won
I thought that the fact that Jackson died of pneumonia was established long ago.
Longstreet and Jackson were “modern” generals that believed in maneuver warfare, using terrain to you advantage, surprise and deception. To a lesser extent Grant was like that too.
He was more than a hero. He was the Stone wall