Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
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Title
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Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
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Description
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General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (b. 1824 d. 1863) was a Civil War general in the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee. He started his career as a professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA where he married Eleanor Junkin the daughter of Washington College (now Washington & Lee University) president Dr. George Junkin. After the death of his first wife he married Mary Anna Morrison, the daughter of Davidson’s first president Rev. Robert Hall Morrison in July 1857. In addition he was also the brother-in-law to Major D.H Hill, a Davidson professor and head of the Mathematics department at the time.
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birthday
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1824
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Death Date
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1863
