Stonewall_Jackson

Stonewall Jackson If you ask the average American student “who was Stonewall Jackson' The vast majority would answer “a famous Civil War solider.” Thomas Jackson is famous in the South for being one of the most famous and influential leaders of the Southern Confederate Army during The War Between the States. Thomas Jackson was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on January 21, 1824. His father, Johnathon ,was a very distinguished lawyer. He was the third to be born of four children. His youngest sister, Elizabeth, was born in 1819, Warren, 1821, and Laura Ann, 1826. Of these family members, one could assume that the deaths of his sister, at age six, followed by his father, at thirty-six, were psychologically significant in his life, and perhaps they contributed greatly to his overwhelmingly precautious decisions and “odd” behavior throughout his life. This is more clearly suggested by witnesses and friends who labeled him as a hypochondriac because of his unusual posture. His posture was, at least, described by him as unnatural and he would always sit up straight because he didn’t want to bend his internal organs or “innards” as he would call them. When he first enrolled at West jackson, stonewall, army, battle, one, union, hill, general, troops, rear, through, flank, city, war, side, northern, jackson’s, fredericksburg, famous, confederacy, command, bridge, being, battles, attack, virginia, very, took, successful, run, retreat, military, flanks, divisions, confederate, civil