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You could be right Chief. However, it was the troops of his command in The Valley who started calling him "Old Jack". In letters home my great-great uncles referred to him as "Old Jack". Prior to this they called him "Old Blue Light". The VMI boys called him "Tom Fool". How wrong they were!

Len

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