On this episode of Our American Stories, he was one of the Civil War’s most gifted commanders—and one of its most enigmatic. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson moved through history like a myth in motion: calm in combat, withdrawn in peace, and utterly sure of his faith. Yet behind the reputation was a man wrestling with illness, loneliness, and an almost obsessive sense of duty. This episode revisits Jackson’s life through the eyes of those who knew him, the soldiers who followed him, and the historians who have spent decades trying to understand him. His story, like the war itself, refuses to rest easily.

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