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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.
The U.S. government survey of the Trace was a geopolitical use case for the Pythagorean theorem; for the 30 years after the Louisiana Purchase, American politics were largely consumed with acquiring the remainder of the land between the Atlantic and the Mississippi River ("United States main post roads c. 1804," mapped by Charles O. Paullin, 1932)
Jackson owned three plantations in total, one of which was Hermitage labor camp, which had an enslaved population of 150 people at the time of Jackson's death. [7] When General Lafayette made his tour of the United States in 1824–25, he visited the Hermitage and his secretary recorded in his diary, "General Jackson successively showed us his garden and farm, which appeared to be well cultivated.
In 1907, Hunter Holmes McGuire, physician of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, published in a book papers sponsored by the Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Virginia, supporting the Lost Cause tenets that "slavery [was] not the cause of the war" and that "the North [was] the aggressor in bringing on the war". The book quickly sold out ...
A college professor and his students counted words in secession documents to determine what really caused the Civil War.
Stonewall Jackson on his deathbed. After winning the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Army of Northern Virginia lost Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson to pneumonia following a friendly fire accident. His death was a blow to the morale of the Confederate army, as he was one of its most popular and successful commanders.
In Virginia, though, the political valence of the act is especially sharp. Stonewall Jackson High School opened in 1959 as a White-only school, in defiance of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board ...
Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign is a 2008 book written by Peter Cozzens and published by the University of North Carolina Press. The book studies Jackson's Valley campaign , an 1862 operation during the American Civil War .