Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Introduction (Learn about this great and brave man)
Let’s learn about this great and brave man! Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia. He was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and the best known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. He was orphaned at an early age and raised by his relatives. Thomas had little education until he entered U.S. Military academy at West Point in 1842. After graduating from West Point in 1846, he fought in the Mexican war until 1848.
Body Paragraph 1 (when he was in the army)
Thomas’s first battle was the Mexican war. After the Mexican war, he soon became a professor in artillery and natural philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, and stayed there for 10 years. Jackson joined the Confederate army. When the Civil War started, out of loyalty for his home state Virginia. He earned his nickname of “Stonewall” at Bull Run, in Manassas, Virginia, in July 1861, the first major battle of the war. A fellow officer by the name of General Bernard Bee rallied his troops by pointing out the conduct of Jackson and his brigade who stood firm in the face of a Union attack. “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!!” said General Bee. In October 1861, Jackson was promoted to Major General.…show more content… He married Elinor Junkin who died in childbirth. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison and had a daughter named Julia who was his only surviving child. One of his eccentricities was that he thought he was heavier on one side of his body so he often walked or rode with one of his arms up to keep his
