MILITARY PERSONNEL

Stonewall Jackson

1824 - 1863

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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the eastern theater of the war until his death. Military historians regard him as one of the most gifted tactical commanders in U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stonewall Jackson has received more than 7,258,660 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Stonewall Jackson is the 518th most popular military personnel (down from 438th in 2019), the 1,493rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,250th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 60.02

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Stonewall Jackson ranks 518 out of 2,058. Before him are Pierre Cambronne, Sigismund Korybut, Franz Böhme, Gao Shun, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, and Adem Jashari. After him are Bo'orchu, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ernst Lindemann, Dmitry Pozharsky, and Roger of Lauria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Stonewall Jackson ranks 17. Before him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Wilkie Collins, Marie Duplessis, Carl Reinecke, Dayananda Saraswati, and Antoine, Duke of Montpensier. After him are William Huggins, Princess Francisca of Brazil, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, William Walker, Jozef Israëls, and Ludwig Büchner. Among people deceased in 1863, Stonewall Jackson ranks 11. Before him are Sa'id of Egypt, Alfred de Vigny, Horace Vernet, Franz Xaver Gruber, Solomon Northup, and Jakob Steiner. After him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Sam Houston, Natalia Pushkina, Auguste Bravais, and Radama II.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stonewall Jackson ranks 1,493 out of 20,380. Before him are J. J. Cale (1938), Bessie Smith (1894), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Kelly Preston (1962), David McClelland (1917), and Thomas J. Sargent (1943). After him are William Nordhaus (1941), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Herbert Blomstedt (1927), David Graf (1950), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), and Merton Miller (1923).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Stonewall Jackson ranks 18. Before him are Benedict Arnold (1741), Richard Winters (1918), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Charles Sweeney (1919), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), and William Westmoreland (1914). After him are Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Creighton Abrams (1914), Paul Revere (1735), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), and Husband E. Kimmel (1882).

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