PRAISE FOR LEE AND JACKSON January 16, 2009 January is often
referred to as "Generals Month" since no less than four famous
Confederate Generals claimed January as their birth month: James
Longstreet (Jan. 8, 1821), Robert E. Lee (Jan. 19, 1807), Thomas
Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (Jan. 21, 1824), and George Pickett
(Jan. 28, 1825). Two of these men, Lee and Jackson, are
particularly noteworthy. Without question, Robert E. Lee and
"Stonewall" Jackson were two of the greatest military leaders of
all time. Even more, many military historians regard the Lee and
Jackson tandem as perhaps the greatest battlefield duo in the
history of warfare. If Jackson had survived the battle of
Chancellorsville, it is very possible that the South would have
prevailed at Gettysburg and perhaps would even have won the War
Between the States. In fact, it was Lord Roberts, commander-in-
chief of the British armies in the early twentieth century, who
said, "In my opinion, Stonewall Jackson was one of the greatest
natural military ge