Jackson's survival would have changed history because, well, Jackson would have been alive. Ewell and Hill would have been commanding their divisions.
It's just my opinion, but I don't think you can just stick Jackson into the those three days and think they would have played out the same.
I'll be happy to discuss the Seven Days Campaign and the toll the Valley campaign played on Jackson's health and energy. I will be happy to discuss too complicated plans, brigade leaders disobeying orders, poor staff work at Lee's headquarters, poor maps, the the extreme emergency Lee found himself under when he took command from Johnston.
I don't know when the other times would be when Jackson failed, but let me know, and I'll be happy to discuss it with you too.
I think our discussion would degenerate rather quickly, carton253. Unlike many, I view Jackson’s oh so highly touted ‘Valley Campaign’ to be more a commentary about the state of the Union’s leadership at that time more than any ‘skill’ on old Blue Light as a General officer.
I think Grant summed it up best after the war when he noted ‘Jackson died too early, before he could be tested by Sheridan, or Sherman, or Meade, or Hancock’.