Gen. Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson
(1824-1863)

Confederate General from Virginia. Next to Robert E. Lee, Jackson is the most revered of all Confederate soldiers. A graduate of West Point, he served in the Mexican War.  He commanded the Army of the Shenandoah, the Army of the Potomac, and the Army of Northern Virginia.  In 1851, Jackson became professor of artillery tactics and natural philosophy at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.

He assumed his nickname during the Battle of Bull Run. Amidst the tumult of battle, Brigadeer-General Barnard E. Bee stated, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall."  He distinguished himself in the Valley campaign of early 1862, the Battle of second Manassas in August 1862, and the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862.

On May 2, 1863, in his last march of the Civil War, Jackson was wounded by friendly fire. He died of pneumonia on May 10 at Guiney's Station, Virginia. His body was carried to Richmond and then to Lexington where it was buried. It is said that The Army of Northern Virginia never fully recovered from the loss of Stonewall Jackson -- General Robert E. Lee believed Jackson was irreplacable.   His family home on Nelson Street is now a museum (it was used as Lexington's hospital into the 1950's).