Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Accession number: 1946.41

"Could I have directed events, I should have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead," wrote Robert E. Lee to Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863) after learning that Jackson had been wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville. A native of Clarksburg (now West Virginia), Jackson earned his nickname "Stonewall" at the first battle of Manassas.

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