He excelled as well at the First Battle of Bull Run (where he received his famous nickname "Stonewall"), Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Jackson was not universally successful as a ...

The battle over Confederate school names in Shenandoah County ... reversing a 2020 decision by a previous board to rename ...

A “This Week in West Virginia History,” published Jan. 15, 2025, reported that “West Virginia’s most famous soldier,” Thomas ...

Resurrecting the names has inflamed tensions in a county with deep ties to battles of the Civil War ... Slavery wasn’t because of Stonewall Jackson.” On Thursday night, at the first school ...

In July 2021, Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby Lee Elementary ... Jackson and his troops played an instrumental part in ...