re: 158 years ago this evening, Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men...

I have always enjoyed the civil war what if games.

Imagine if Jackson's reconnoiter expedition to the United States Ford was uninterrupted and that he was not shot.

Jackson could have possibly blocked the United States Ford and that would have left the Army of the Potomac in the Wilderness.

That would leave the Army of the Potomac having to fight it's way out of the Wilderness likely under the Command of Darius Couch.

Who knows how the battle would have turned out and the result would have likely cancelled the invasion of the North by Lee.