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On this spot, Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson, C.S.A., fell mortally wounded on May 2nd 1863. He was remembered in Bee's words at Manassas as standing like a stone wall. R. E. Lee told him, "Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory, which is due to your skill and energy!" His last words were, "Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."
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Lake Wilderness, Virginia · United States
