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The cemetery was renamed in 1949 as the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery after the Confederate general, who was buried here in 1863. The current name dates to September 3, 2020. [ 1 ] Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia , and Margaret Junkin Preston , the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".
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.
A portrait of Stonewall Jackson (1864, J. W. King) in the National Portrait Gallery. The following is a list of memorials to and things named in honor of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1824–1863), who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried. The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a ...
Jackson was sedated with chloroform, and the arm was cut off near the shoulder. [3] A modern view of the granite marker. While helping prepare the wounded Jackson to be moved from the battlefield for his safety, chaplain Beverly Tucker Lacy noticed Jackson's arm, wrapped up and intended to be buried in a ditch with other amputated limbs. [4]
Stonewall Jackson (November 6, 1932 – December 4, 2021) was an American country music singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Stonewall Confederate Cemetery is a subsection of Mount Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia, established in 1866 for 2,575 Confederate soldiers who died in battle or in the hospitals in and around the Winchester area. A monument over the mass grave of more than 800 unknown Confederate soldiers is at the center of the cemetery, and there is ...
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