" This film chronicles three major battles that took place during the Civil War, but more importantly, it portrayed Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's life and his endeavors throughout the Confederates' battles during the Civil War. The movie begins with a brief glimpse into Jackson's life, pre-Civil War, which portrays a simple, outright Christian, military husband who teaches at the Virginia Military Institute, and ends with a legendary figure dying of a rather simplistic case of pneumonia. ... The films clear purpose was to depict the original story as factually as p...

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