http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/brig-gen-thomas-j-jackson-on-the-march-to-manassas-the-battle-and-the-aftermath/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/brig-gen-thomas-j-jackson-on-the-march-to-manassas-the-battle-and-the-aftermath/#comment-21353 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:19:15 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10385#comment-21353 I don’t know if Jackson was left-handed. Another possibility is that he could not hold the blowing paper down with his wounded left hand while he wrote with his right.

]]> http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/brig-gen-thomas-j-jackson-on-the-march-to-manassas-the-battle-and-the-aftermath/#comment-21352 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:11:58 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=10385#comment-21352 Just curious, based on this comment from Jackson’s entry, “My finger troubles me considerably, and renders it very difficult for me to write, as the wind blows my paper, and I can only use my right hand” can we assume that he normally wrote left-handed?

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