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Stonewall Jackson
1824-1863
Who Was Stonewall Jackson?
A skilled military tactician, Stonewall Jackson served as a Confederate general under Robert E.
Lee in the American Civil War, leading troops at Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg. Jackson lost an arm and died after he was accidentally shot by Confederate troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Early Life
Stonewall Jackson was born Thomas Jonathan Jackson on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg (then Virginia), West Virginia.
His father, a lawyer named Jonathan Jackson, and his mother, Julia Beckwith Neale, had four children.
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was the third born.
When Jackson was just 2 years old, his father and his older sister, Elizabeth, were killed by typhoid fever. As a young widow, Jackson’s mother struggled to make ends meet.
In 1830 Julia remarried to Blake Woodson. When the young Jackson and his siblings butted heads with their new stepfather, they were sent to live with relatives in Jackson