How tragic that such a man was blind to the evil he served when he could have done so much good in helping remove that evil. Had he stayed with the Union the Slavers' insurrection could have been ended earlier with the saving of hundreds of thousands of lives.
But Jackson's tragedy, like all tragic heroes, was that he was blind to the realities of the political world. Blindly following the path of destruction as surely as Oedipus did.
If Jackson had lived, you would be reading a much different story.....He would have whupped some major Yankee *ss......