CDV of Thomas Jonathan Jackson “Stonewall Jackson” in Confederate Uniform

CDV of Thomas Jonathan Jackson “Stonewall Jackson” in Confederate Uniform!
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was a West Point graduate, veteran of the Mexican War (1846–1848), instructor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, and Confederate general under Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War (1861–1865). One of Lee’s ablest commanders, Jackson earned his famous nickname during the First Battle of Manassas in 1861 when a fellow general is said to have cried out, “There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!” A few contemporary accounts suggest that the stone-wall comparison was not intended to be complimentary, but it hardly matters. The real Jackson—peculiarly earnest and single-minded but in many ways not so different from other soldiers of his day—was being transformed into the mythological one, an Old Testament God of wrath contrasting with Lee’s Christ-like figure. When Jackson was accidentally wounded by his own men during the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863), Lee relayed to him a message: “Give General Jackson my affectionate regards, and say to him: he has lost his left arm but I my right.” Jackson died eight days later due to complications from the injury. A martyr to his cause during the war, Jackson has become an iconic figure in Southern culture, second only to Lee in the pantheon of Confederate heroes.