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Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our countrys greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and threatened the ultimate success of the Union armies. Jacksons strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future.
In April 1862 Jackson was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what...
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(1) Jacksons boyhood home: Orphaned at the age of seven, Jackson was sent to live with six bachelor uncles, a step-grandmother, and two aunts at prosperous Jacksons Mill in mountainous western Virginia (now West Virginia). The main residence (left) was one of the finest houses in the region.
(2) Jacksons sister, Laura Jackson Arnold: They were orphans and extremely close friends growing up. After the war started Laura became an ardent supporter of the Union cause and cut all ties to her brother. They never reconciled.
(1) Jacksons boyhood home: Orphaned at the age of seven, Jackson was sent to live with six bachelor uncles, a step-grandmother, and two aunts at prosperous Jacksons Mill in mountainous western Virginia (now West Virginia). The main residence (left) was one of the finest houses in the region.
(2) Jacksons sister, Laura Jackson Arnold: They were orphans and extremely close friends growing up. After the war started Laura became an ardent supporter of the Union cause and cut all ties to her brother. They never reconciled.
(3) Jackson in the Mexican-American War, 1847: Just out of West Point, the shy young man traveled south to fight in Mexico, where he showed almost reckless bravery in the battles that led to the fall of Mexico City. He was rapidly promoted.
(4) The Virginia Military Institute as it looked on the eve of the Civil War, in mountain-ringed Lexington, Virginia. The castellated barracks on the right contained Jacksons classroom and also his bachelor quarters. On April 21, 1861, Jackson and 176 young cadets marched from those barracks for Richmond to join the Confederate army. Many of them, including Jackson, would never see Lexington or VMI again.
(5) Main Street in Lexington as it looked in the Civil War era. A block away, Jackson founded and ran a successful Sunday school for slaves. Here he made his life before the war as a college professor, investor, farmer, homeowner, husband, and church deacon.
(6) Jacksons home in Lexington: Behind its doors he was a complex, passionate, highly sensitive man who loved deeply and had a nineteenth-century romantics view of beauty and nature. He loved Shakespeare, European architecture, and gardening. He taught himself to be fluent in Spanish.
(7) Jacksons first wife, Ellie: The vibrant and irreverent daughter of a college president was his first love. She died tragically while giving birth to their stillborn son. Jackson was so grief-stricken that friends began to worry that he was losing his mind.
(8) The woman he loved but could not marry: Maggie Junkin was the brilliant, engaging sister of Jacksons first wife, Ellie, destined to become a famous poet. Though they clearly loved each other, rules of the Presbyterian Church forbid a marriage.
(9) Jackson as college professor in 1857: He was the most peculiar of teachers: a humorless, puritanical, gimlet-eyed stickler for detail. He taught the toughest course at the Virginia Military Institute.
(10) Second wife, Anna, and daughter, Julia: Married in 1857, Thomas and Anna were blissfully happy in Lexington, where they bought a house and a farm and owned six slaves. This photo, taken three to four years after his death, shows his daughter, Julia, whom he knew only briefly.
(11) Confederate president Jefferson Davis: He disliked and distrusted Jackson at the start of the war. His political meddling in Jacksons command led to Jacksons controversial resignation in 1862.
(12) Henry Kyd Douglas: The handsome young Douglas was a member of Jacksons staff and one of the generals favorites. His memoir is one of the most important records of Jacksons wartime career.
(13) Wartime Harpers Ferry: This is what the town and its approaches looked like when Jackson seized it in September 1862. His victory resulted in the largest surrender of Federal troops in the war, larger in numbers than the surrender of Generals Cornwallis or Burgoyne in the Revolutionary War.
(14) Robert E. Lee: He and Jackson formed an extraordinary partnership that changed the course of the war. In their stunning victories at Second Manassas and Chancellorsville they demonstrated a high-command teamwork not previously witnessed on either side.
(15) Confederate general Richard S. Ewell: Old Baldy was one of Jacksons toughest and most reliable generals. But it took him a while to get over his conviction that Jackson was crazy as a March hare.
(16) Confederate general Daniel Harvey D. H. Hill: He was Jacksons brother-in-law and one of the Confederacys leading generals. Of the Battle of Malvern Hill, where he fought alongside Jackson, he said, It was not war, it was murder.
(17) Ambrose Powell A. P. Hill: Jacksons great weakness was his inability to get along with his fellow generals, especially the hard-nosed Little Powell Hill. Jackson put him in arrest after Cedar Mountain, and the two feuded continuously after that.
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