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Stonewall Jackson

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Thomas J. Jackson, one of the Confederate generals in the American war. The name arose thus: General Bee, of South Caroliʹna, observing his men waver, exclaimed, “Look at Jackson’s men; they stand like a stone wall!” (1826–1863.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Stone Dead
Stone Jug
Stone Soup or St. Bernard’s Soup
Stone Still
Stone of the Broken Treaty
Stone of Stumbling
Stone of Tongues
Stones
Stonebrash
Stonehenge
Stonewall Jackson
Stony Arabia
Stool of Repentance
Stops
Store
Stork
Storks Law or Lex Ciconaria
Storm in a Teapot
Storms
Stormy Petrel (A)
Stornello Verses