May 1863: Stonewall Jackson’s Death and the Making of the Lee–Jackson Legend
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A search of the annals of the Civil War reveals that the rise of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as legendary figures in the Confederacy begins its ascent in 1861 with Jackson’s leadership at First Manassas and gathers momentum in 1862, when Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia and blunted the advance of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, saving the Confederate capital at Richmond. Here is how their legend took shape.
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