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Show "Stonewall" Jackson. The recent statement of General Beauregard Beaure-gard to a Now Orleans paper in reference to the origin of tho title "Stonewall" ns applied to General Jackson, settles a question which ban been long in dispute. During tho battle of Manassas, about 11 o'clock, a. m., when that gallant and meritorious officor. Brig. Gun. Barnard E. Boo, was endoavor-ing endoavor-ing to rally his troops in tho small valley in tho rear of the Robinson homo, ho noticed Jackson's brigade, which had Just arrived and tukou position a littlo in rear of him, in a copse of small pines bordering tho edga of tho plateau whoro was about to bo fought tho first groat battlo of tho war. Bco, finding that his appeals wore unheeded by his bravo but disorganized dis-organized troops, then said to thum, "Rally, men, rally I Heo Jackson's brigade standing thero liko a stone wall." Thoao words gavo tho appellation appella-tion to that brigade and thenco to its, horoio commander. |