Stonewall Jackson

1. Stonewall Jackson By: Nicholas Williams

2. Stonewalls Childhood • He was born on January 21 1824 in Clarksburg west Virginia • His mother Julia Beckwith Neale had four children Stonewall was the third one born he had three brothers and sisters but Stonewalls father and his older sister Elizabeth died of typhoid fever before the fourth one was born. • Stonewall graduated from West Point in 1846.

3. Thomas Jonathan Jackson in the Mexican war. • He was a second-lieutenant in the begining of the Mexican war. • He was first ordered to report to the first regular artillery • He fought many battles with general Scott.

4. Jacksons civilian life • When Jackson accepted V.M.I he became a professor for the Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Instructor of Artillery. • Despite his high quality he was not popular when he was a teacher so they would call him Tom Fool. The students would mock him because of his stern religious nature. In 1856 a group of alumni attempted to have him removed.

5. Chancellorsville • At the Battle of Chancellorsville Stonewalls army was returning to camp his army was mistaken for “Yankees” and were shot at Stonewall got hit by not one not two but three bullets two in his left arm one in the right hand. His left arm had to get amputated

6. His last words • Shortly before he died he yelled “Order A.P Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly Tell Major Hawks”-then stopped leaving the sentence unfinished Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face and he said quietly and with an expression as if of relief “Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees”

7. Lees reaction to Stonewalls Death • Before Stonewall died on May 10 1863 he sent a message to him it said “he has lost his left arm but I my right.” The night he heard about Stonewalls Death he told his cook “William I have lost my right arm” and “I’m bleeding at my heart.”

8. Stonewalls memorial • His body was moved to Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginia. However the arm that was amputated on May 2 was buried separately by Jackson’s chaplain at the J. Horace Lacy house, “Ellwood” In the wilderness of Orange County near the field hospital.