General "Stonewall" Jackson, born in 1824 and dead in 1863, received his famous sobriquet at the first Battle of Manassas when Gen. Barnard E. Bee, a Texan, saw Jackson rallying his men for a charge as other units retreated and cried, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer." In the Battles of Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill, Hood's Texas Brigade fought under Jackson's command, and after Gaines Mill, when Jackson saw the strong Union fortified position the Texans had overrun, he said, "The men that took this position were soldiers indeed." During the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Texas made an all-out effort for the Confederacy after a 3 to 1 popular vote for secession. Ninety thousand troops, famed for mobility and daring, fought on every battlefront, while a 2,000-mile frontier and coast were successfully defended from Union troop invasion and savage Indians. Texas served as the storehouse of the western Confederacy, with wagon trains laden with cotton, the lifeblood of the South, crossing the state to Mexico to trade for medical supplies, clothing, and military supplies. State and private industry produced guns, ammunition, wagons, pots, kettles, leather goods, salt, and hospital supplies, while wives, sons, daughters, and slaves provided corn, cotton, cloth, cattle, hogs, and cured meats to the army, giving much and keeping little for themselves.