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A 3 page paper which looks at the life and work of Stonewall Jackson. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in the war. His life was seemingly filled with tragedy and yet he rose above all of that to become one of the most famous figures in American history. The
following paper examines his life. Stonewall Jackson Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in what is now known as West Virginia on January 21, 1824 (Virginia Military Institute). When
he was born all of that particular territory was considered to be simply Virginia and it was not until 1863 that West Virginia became a separate state (Virginia Military Institute).
His parents were Jonathan Jackson and Julia Neale (Virginia Military Institute). In 1826 Thomas father and sister, Elisabeth, died from the typhoid fever and his mother gave birth to another
child, a daughter named Laura, only one day after the death of her husband (Virginia Military Institute). She remarried a few years later but it seems as though the stepfather
was a man who did not like the children and they faced financial difficulties (Virginia Military Institute). In 1831 his mother died from complications of childbirth and Thomas and his
siblings spent the rest of their childhood with relatives (Virginia Military Institute). Thomas career in the military began in 1842 when he entered the United States Military Academy at
West Point (Virginia Military Institute). And in 1842 "began his U.S. Army career as a 2nd Lt., First Artillery Regiment" (Virginia Military Institute). He later served in the Mexican War
and then in 1851 he accepted a position as a teacher at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, at which point he essentially resigned from the army (Virginia Military
Institute). His life for the next few years involved a great deal of personal joy and struggle. He married Elinor Junkin in 1853 and she died one year later in
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