Mathew W. Lively - Calamity at Chancellorsville: the Wounding and Death of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

2013 by Mathew W. Lively

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Lively, Mathew W.
Calamity at Chancellorsville : the wounding and death of Confederate General Stonewall
Jackson / Mathew W. Lively.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61121-138-2
EPUB ISBN: 9781611211399
1. Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863Death and burial. 2. GeneralsConfederate States of
AmericaBiography. 3. Confederate States of America. ArmyOfficersBiography. 4.
United StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Biography. 5. Chancellorsville, Battle of,
Chancellorsville, Va., 1863. I. Title.
E467.1.J15L58 2013
355.0092dc23
[B]
2013006687

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Dramatis Personae

THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON

National Archives

Born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) on January 21, 1824. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1846 and served with distinction during the Mexican-American War. Served as an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, prior to the start of the Civil War. At 39, Jackson was a lieutenant general and commander of the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Confederate army.

MARY ANNA MORRISON JACKSON and JULIA LAURA JACKSON

Virginia Military Institute Archives

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 21, 1831. Mary met Thomas J. Jackson while visiting her sister in Lexington, Virginia and married him on July 16, 1857, at the Morrison home in North Carolina. She was 31 years old when she visited Jackson prior to the start of the battle of Chancellorsville.

Julia was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 23, 1862, and named after Jacksons mother (Julia) and his sister (Laura). She was the third and only surviving child of Thomas J. Jackson and was five months old when she accompanied her mother on her visit prior to the battle of Chancellorsville.

DR. HUNTER HOLMES McGUIRE

Authors Collection

Born in Winchester, Virginia on October 11, 1835. Graduated from Winchester Medical College in 1855 and originally enlisted in the Confederate army as a private. He was promoted instead to brigade surgeon under Thomas J. Jackson and then to major and medical director of the Second Corps when Jackson assumed command of the unit. Only 27 years old at the time of the battle of Chancellorsville, he was already a well-respected surgeon in the army.

JAMES POWER SMITH

Authors Collection

Born in New Athens, Ohio on July 4, 1837. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Hampton Sydney, Virginia, in 1861 and enlisted in the artillery service for the Confederate army later that year. He was appointed to the position of aide-de-camp to Jackson in 1862 and was 25 years old during the battle of Chancellorsville.

ALEXANDER SWIFT PENDLETON

Authors Collection

Born in Alexandria, Virginia on September 28, 1840. Graduated from Washington College in Lexington, Virginia in 1857 and left graduate school at the University of Virginia to enlist in the Confederate army in 1861. He was 22 years old and served on Jacksons staff as assistant adjutant general of the Second Corps during the battle of Chancellorsville.

JOSEPH GRAHAM MORRISON

Authors Collection

Born in Lincoln County, North Carolina on June 1, 1842. He was the brother of Mary Anna Jackson and was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, when the Civil War started. He left the Institute in 1862 to enlist in the Confederate army and serve as a volunteer aide-de-camp on Jacksons staff. He was 20 years old at the time of the battle of Chancellorsville.

JEDEDIAH HOTCHKISS

Authors Collection

Born in Windsor, New York on November 30, 1828. Graduated from the Windsor Academy and worked as a schoolteacher and mining geologist prior to the start of the Civil War. He offered his services to the Confederate army as a mapmaker and became the chief topographical engineer for the Second Corps in 1862. He was 34 years old at the time of the battle of Chancellorsville.

BEVERLY TUCKER LACY

Authors Collection

Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia on February 19, 1819. Graduated from Washington College in Lexington, Virginia in 1843, and studied at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. In March 1863, at the age of 44, he was appointed by Jackson to be the unofficial chaplain to the Second Corps.

ROBERT EDWARD LEE

Library of Congress

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on January 19, 1807. Graduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1829. Lee was a career army officer and served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He refused overall command of the Union army in 1861, and instead resigned his commission when Virginia seceded from the Union. At age 56, he held the rank of general in the Confederate army and was commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.