LEXINGTON — When visitors to the Stonewall Jackson House asked about the Confederate general’s six slaves, site director Grace Abele didn’t have much to tell them. The lives of Thomas ...

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“Stonewall” Jackson carried the hopes of a nation on ... “Some 25,000 people passed his coffin in the House chamber in Richmond,” Robertson said. “It was as if the world had come to ...