This monument to Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) Jackson, the sculpture for
which is the work of F. William Sievers, shows him mounted on “Sorrel,”
facing north, because he so resolutely opposed the Northern army.
Jackson, whose brilliant strategy is studied today by soldiers the world
over, was a stern, Cromwellian type of commander in strange contrast to
the dashing Stuart. Lee called him his “right arm,” and no one has ever
been able to estimate the severity of the blow his death dealt the
Southern cause. ¶ _Continue westward on Monument to Belmont._