. The great American book of biography . 368 THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON, THE CONFEDERATE ANY remarkable characters were developed on bothsides in the great civil war of 1861. The warbrought out in men qualities and powers which hadnever before been known or suspected. One of themost strikinof of such characters was the brave andable but eccentric man known as Stonewall Jackson,who fell in the battle of Chancellorsville, in May,1863. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in Clarks-burg, Virginia, January 21, 1824. At the age ofeighteen he was appointed to the West Point Mili-tary Acade
. The great American book of biography . 368 THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON, THE CONFEDERATE ANY remarkable characters were developed on bothsides in the great civil war of 1861. The warbrought out in men qualities and powers which hadnever before been known or suspected. One of themost strikinof of such characters was the brave andable but eccentric man known as Stonewall Jackson,who fell in the battle of Chancellorsville, in May,1863. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in Clarks-burg, Virginia, January 21, 1824. At the age ofeighteen he was appointed to the West Point Mili-tary Academy. Owing to the fact that he was poorlyprepared to enter that institution, he never took ahiffh standingf in his classes. He was graduated in1847 and ordered to Mexico. He took part in Scotts campaign from VeraCruz to the city of Mexico, and was twice brevetted for gallant conduct, atChurubusco and Chapultepec, finally attaining the rank of first lieutenant ofartillery. After the Mexican war he was on duty at Fort Hamilton, New Yorkharbor, and subsequently at Fort Meade, Fla., but in 1851 ill hea
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