Definition of Thomas Jackson

1. Noun. General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Jackson

Thomas Edward Lawrence
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hastings
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Higginson
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Huxley
Thomas J. Hanks
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas Jackson (current term)
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
Thomas Kid
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Malory
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Mann
Thomas Merton
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Moore
Thomas More
Thomas Nast

Literary usage of Thomas Jackson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1832)
"By Thomas Jackson, Esq. 8vo. pp. 84. London: Longman & Co. 1832. As a matter of curiosity, we should like to know the number of publications of every ..."

2. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
"Proved in Amherst, 5th February, 1781. who, etc., do say that the aforesaid Thomas Jackson was, in his lifetime, and the time of his death, seized, etc., ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"Charles Thomas Jackson, the flrst.state geologist of Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, was born in Plymouth, Mass., June 21st 1805, the son of Charles ..."

4. Publications. by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, British-H (1900)
"Thomas Jackson & Elener Harnage ... mar. 1668, Oct. 12. ... Richard, s. of Elener Jackson, wid., by Thomas Jackson late deceased ... bap. 1677, April 4. ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"Thomas Jackson, MA, is separately noticed. Jackson's stylo as a preacher was simple and ... WBL JACKSON, THOMAS (1812-1886), divine, son of Thomas Jackson ..."

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