Jackson I actually have a strange kind of (limited) respect for. On one hand, absolutely, he was a traitor serving one of the most abominable causes known to man. On the other hand, of all the traitors, him and Longstreet are the only ones with any sort of competence or humanity in them.

Jackson was a religious fanatic, but to the point of breaking law and custom to teach slaves how to read, and was never a major supporter of slavery himself. He also was a legitimately daring cavalry commander. Ignore this, I made a dumb mistake.

Tear his statues down, certainly. No traitor nor supporter of that abominable cause ought to be honored. But I’ll freely admit he’s not as bad as his fellow traitors.