federals who had never heard of thomas j. jackson in march or april, but who soon would be encouraged to buy soap because he liked it. they also feared him mightily by june. they really did. a new york lieutenant who had been up and down the valley, he wrote hope and said this jackson is a man of decided genius.e an is a man of decided genius.me an is a mande

federals who had never heard of thomas j. jackson in march or april, but who soon would be encouraged to buy soap because he liked it. they also feared him mightily by june. they really did. a new york lieutenant who had been up and down the valley, he wrote hope and said this jackson is a man of decided genius.e an is a man of decided genius.me an is a man of decided genius. and no one in our army is fit to compete with him. now, whether that was true or not, whether the lieutenant from new york had appraised jackson's merits properly, is a pretty subjective thing to judge. but that he thought that and that his comrades thought that was incredibly useful in the form of a self-fulfilling prophecy. they were expecting to be beaten by this fellow the next time. in june down here near richmond when they came down here, of course, a federal who was captured asked who someone riding by was. they said that's stonewall jackson. he said is that devil here? betraying the attitude. an indiana soldier, a hoosier, referred to stonewall jackson a

thomas j. stone wall jackson style barrier of european woes that could not be overcome.going battle of the wilderness. bears came out of woodwork to explain that everything that looked boss po was negative and negatives were catastrophic. we get an amazing day like this one. you remember why we liked that market so much in the first place is the ral efor real? or the market simply become more volatile? tonight, off to the charts to cut thoort of the question, by looking at the cboe volatility index. it's known as the fear index, the perceived level of volatility and uncertainty. s & p 500, we like certainty. a fantastic technician and chief operating officer of optionpit.com. last time, everything was smooth sailing and the fear index much lower. but the vix, it's back. moved higher, spiked to 22.40, before closing at 19.45. uncertainty is back and on the rise. for the vix to go down and stay down, could that happen? a period of decreased volatility, a period when the market could steadily chug higher. and we are finally in one those glorious periods. sebastian says the