Statue of Thomas J Jackson, detail
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general
during the American Civil War, and
one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E.
Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and
his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia
under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the
Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863. The general survived with
the loss of an arm to amputation, but died of complications from
pneumonia eight days later.
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