If Stonewall had not been literally “wasted” by his own men accidentally, perhaps some crucial battles may have ended up differently.
I took a tour/course of the major battlefields of the war, and our professor, who also happened to be a very successful pastor, speculated that since God willed for the Union to win—Stonewall Jackson had to die. Jackson really wasn’t even hurt that bad (compared to many) though he lost his leg...and probably an infection killed him (in this era before antiseptics...), as he died a couple weeks after the friendly fire incident.
I recall standing in the little 2 room house where Jackson died...it has a strange peaceful aura about it still, in my opinion.
Ten-four. Actually after I posted that reply I remembered another “favorite” Confederate general; Nathan Bedford Forrest. He is reputed to have started the KKK. I have heard denials of that, stating that he started an organization that got out of his control and morphed INTO the KKK.
The reason I like him is because of what happened to him AFTER the war. Through circumstances only God could have engineered, Forrest came to Christ, even preached the Gospel a little, adopted a black child, and if memory serves, even started one or more charitable organizations.
I once had a biography which told the whole story; the only bio about Forrest which TELLS these things about his later life. I loaned it to someone and never got it back. Might have to scour around and FIND another copy.