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

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It was not an established goal of the battle to exploit a victory and then capture Washington. It was not even considered prior to the fight. The people on both sides were rank amateurs with the exception of those who had fought in the Mexican War.

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And that was the main downfall of the Confederate high command in the early days of the war. Jackson's entire experence in war up until that point had been in the Mexican-American war during the seige of Vera Cruz and the subsiquint march on Mexico City, which was entirely offesive in nature. His highest success came when he took out a whole line of Mexican artilery with esencially one artilery piece of his own, to keep the Americans moving forward to Mexico City. So the objective of Stonewall Jackson's entire military career up until the First Battle of Manassus was moving forward even if he had always been an artillary officer and not a calvary man.