He performed well in subsequent battles like Fredericksburg and Antietam. He lost his left arm, but it was thought that Jackson would recover. However he died of complications eight days later. There was great wailing and gnashing of teeth in the South when Jackson died. Lee never did get over the shock and one can only wonder, when Gettysburg was fought two months later, if the outcome of the war might have been much different with Jackson on the field.
Some scholars say no.
Some say the South would have won in Pennsylvania. But, again, that s just one more paradox surrounding the South s oddest general. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson behaved so oddly that some doubted his sanity. Yet, as you will see in this biography, Jackson was one of the most respected of Southern commanders. Inc. PageWise makes no representations about the content published on this site.