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!” Whatever Bee said—he could not settle the question by his own testimony, for a bullet killed him soon afterward—Jackson’s brigade stopped the Union assault and suffered more casualties than any other southern brigade this day. Ever after, Jackson was known as “Stonewall” and his men who had stood fast at Manassas became the Stonewall Brigade.1
