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Brigadier General Barnard Bee, commanding the Third Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah: it is impossible to determine Bee’s words exactly, but here are two widely-reported versions of what he told his troops during the Battle of First Manassas, not too long before he was killed:
“Look, men, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer! Follow me!”-- From a correspondent’s report in the Charleston Mercury eight days after the battle, quoted in James I. Robertson’s Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend, page 264
“There stands Jackson like a stone wall--rally behind the Virginians.” -- From reminiscences of Jackson’s surgeon, Dr. Hunter McGuire, in “General Thomas J. Jackson,” Southern Historical Society Papers, volume 19 (1891) 307-308
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