Definition of Thomas J. Jackson

1. Noun. General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas J. Jackson

Thomas Edison
Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Higginson
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Huxley
Thomas J. Hanks
Thomas J. Jackson (current term)
Thomas Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
Thomas Kid
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Malory
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Mann
Thomas Merton
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Moore
Thomas More

Literary usage of Thomas J. Jackson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1893)
"April 27, Urging the appointment of Major Thomas J. Jackson for the chief Richmond , . x, ,,. ". . command in Northwestern Virginia. ..."

2. American History: For Use in Secondary Schools by Roscoe Lewis Ashley (1907)
"Lee turned aside from his march into central Pennsylvania in order to meet Meade marching rapidly from Washington. Thomas J. Jackson ..."

3. Heroes of the Army in America by Charles Morris (1919)
"Thomas J. Jackson, THE STONE WALL OF THE CONFEDERACY THERE was no great amount of piety among the generals of the Civil War. They were engaged in a business ..."

4. Ceremonies Connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the by Lee Memorial Association, William Allan, John Warwick Daniel (1883)
"... and from Manassas to Appomattox, under Joseph E. Johnston, and Thomas J. Jackson, and Robert E. Lee, the boys and the men of Washington College proved ..."

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