The Historian


An American historian has taken issue with recently published biographies of 
Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Jackson and the famous American political 
figure, Aaron Burr.

One writer claimed that at one time Jackson had ground light-refracting optical 
devices. The other stated that in his youth, Burr had made wire enclosures for 
birds.

Not so, cried the critic. . . . "Stonewalls do not a prism make, nor Aaron 
Burrs a cage! 



(By Dave Shallenberger)