"Happy Birthday Stonewall Jackson"

January 21, 1824-May 10, 1863

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was born in Clarksburg (then Virginia), West Virginia, on January 21, 1824. A skilled military tactician, he served as a Confederate general under Robert E. Lee in the War Between the States (Civil War), leading troops at Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg. Jackson lost an arm and died after he was accidentally shot by Confederate troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville.