Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia, now West Virginia, and became one of the best known Confederate generals in the Civil War, after general Robert E. Lee.

Stonewall Jackson, a ... At the Battle of Chancellorsville in May of 1863, Jackson struck General Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac from ... born Thomas Jonathan Jackson on January 21, 1824, ...

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