Jackson brought his fresh troops into line just behind the crest. General Barnard Bee of South Carolina, trying to rally his broken brigade, pointed to Jackson’s men and shouted something like: “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!” But at least one observer placed a different construction on Bee’s remark, claiming that the South Carolinian gestured angrily at Jackson’s troops standing immobile behind the crest, and said: “Look at Jackson standing there like a damned stone wall!”
