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STONEWALL JACKSON
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• STONEWALL JACKSON (noun)
The noun STONEWALL JACKSON has 1 sense:
1. 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)
Familiarity information: STONEWALL JACKSON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Thomas J. Jackson; Thomas Jackson; Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Context examples
From farther out on the Island came the Cheadles and the O. R. P. Schraeders and the Stonewall Jackson Abrams of Georgia and the Fishguards and the Ripley Snells.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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