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Where did the term stonewalling come from?

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From Confederate soldiers hailing General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson who rallied his men during the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) by standing 'like a stone wall' to fend off Union troops. In time, this became shorthand to describe someone who put up obstinate resistance.

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