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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War.He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the eastern theater of the war until his death.
Stonewall is not a nickname; he was named after Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. [1] Some publicity claimed he was a descendant of the general, but that is unlikely .) When Stonewall was two, his father died after which his mother moved the family to Worth County in South Georgia , [ 1 ] where he grew up working on his uncle's farm.
Stonewall Jackson (1910), West Virginia State Capitol, Charleston, West Virginia. [42] A 1912 replica at the VMI in Lexington, Virginia (moved in 2020) Southern, at the Confederate Cemetery on Johnson's Island, Ohio, a 1910 commission from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. [43] [44] John Warwick Daniel, (c. 1913), Lynchburg, Virginia.
Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd was born on May 9, 1844, in Martinsburg, Virginia (now part of West Virginia). [10] She was the eldest child of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd. [11]
The Jackson family included several notable military patriots. Genealogical records show that Colonel Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, who famously led the Confederate victory at Harper’s Ferry, Maryland, in 1862, was the nephew of David Edward Jackson, founder of Jackson Hole. Despite their shared last name, however, they were not related ...
Tom Dula was born to a poor Appalachian hill-country family in Wilkes County, North Carolina, [6] most likely the youngest of three brothers, with one younger sister, Eliza. [7] Dula grew up, attended school, and "probably played with the female Fosters" – Anne and her cousins Laura and Pauline.
Ewell was born in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. He was raised in Prince William County, Virginia, from the age of 3, at an estate near Manassas known as "Stony Lonesome." [1] He was the third son of Dr. Thomas and Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell; the grandson of Benjamin Stoddert, the first United States Secretary of the Navy; the grandson of Revolutionary War Colonel Jesse Ewell; and the brother of ...
Although Jackson rarely deviated from protocol for promotions, his justification for selecting Paxton was that none of the subordinate commanders in the Stonewall Brigade was the "best qualified" for the position because "I did not regard any of them as competent as another." [11] Paxton assumed command of the brigade on November 15. [1]