The Historian, September 22nd, 2005
IN 1996, the Civil War novel Gods and Generals was a bestseller. The book portrayed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson as a man full of peculiarities, from his plain uniform to his alleged penchant for habitually sucking on lemons in the midst of battle. The image of Jackson and the lemon has long endured, and pilgrims to Jackson's grave today sometimes still leave behind lemons. Author Jeff Shaara, who attempted in his novel to be true to historical sources, did not invent the story of Jackson's odd fondness for the fruit: he appropriated a well-known feature of the general exhibited in nu...
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