biography
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Bee, Barnard (Elliott)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1824–61)
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| biography:
| Confederate soldier, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. He trained at West Point (1845), became a Mexican War hero, and left his frontier post (1861) to fight for the Confederacy. At the First Battle of Bull Run he inadvertently originated the nickname ‘Stonewall’ for General T J Jackson and his brigade when he exhorted his inexperienced troops to rally by crying ‘Look at Jackson's brigade - it stands like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians’. Mortally wounded, Bee survived the battle by one day. |
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