Stonewall Jackson
Lieutenant general Thomas Jonathan Jackson | |
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![]() General Jackson photographed at Winchester, Virginie 1862 | |
Birth name | Thomas Jonathan Jackson[1] |
Elk-name | "Stonewall" (Inglis: Stanewaw), "Old Jack" (Inglis: Auld Jack), "Old Blue Light" (Inglis: Auld Blue Licht, "Tom Fool" |
Born | 21 Januar 1824[2] Clarksburg, Virginie, U.S. (nou Clarksburg, Wast Virginie) |
Dee'd | 10 Mey 1863 Guinea Station, Virginie | (aged 39)
Buried at | Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery Lexington, Virginie, U.S. |
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (Januar 21, 1824 – Mey 10, 1863) wis a Confederate general during the American Ceevil War, an the best-kent Confederate commander efter General Robert E. Lee.[3]
References
- ↑ Farwell, p. xi, states that the owerwhelmingly common uisage o the middle name Jonathan wis never documentit an that Jackson did nae acknawledge it, instead uisin the signatur form "T. J. Jackson." Robertson, p. 19, states that a coonty document on Februar 28, 1841, was the first recorded instance o Jackson uisin a middle initial, althou "whether it stood for his faither Jonathan's name is nae kent." Aw of the ither references tae this airticle cite his full name as Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
- ↑ Eicher, High Commands, p. 316; Robertson, p. 7. The physician, Dr. James McCally, recalls deliverin baby Thomas juist afore midnixht on Januar 20, but the faimily has insistit syne then that he wis born in the first minutes o Januar 21. The later date is the ane generally acknowledged in biographies.
- ↑ Jackson biography at Civil War Home Archived 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine.