He graduated on June 30, 1846 when he was 22 years old. He was ranked 17th in his class.
He graduated on June 30, 1846 when he was 22 years old. He was ranked 17th in his class.
He sucked lemons. He was a teacher at west point and he was terrible, so when he joined the cond= Confederacy and was so successful, people were surprised.
Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, was born in Clarksburg, West Virgina. He was brought up in Jackson Mill, West Virginia.
Confederate General Thomas Jonathan Jackson graduated from West point in 1846. Among the 59 graduating cadets, Jackson ranked 17th. Jackson saw victorious action in the Shenandoah Valley and participated in the Battle of Antietam. He and General George B. McClellan both graduated in 1846.
Clarksburg, Virginia, at that time. The town is now in the state of West Virginia.
Stonewall Jackson attended the Lexington Academy in Lexington, Virginia. This school was not a high school in the modern sense but rather a private academy that provided education for students. He later went on to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he received formal military training.
Stonewall Jackson had a difficult childhood. His father died when he was young and his mother died several years later. He lived with his uncle who allowed him to work on the farm and seek education when he had time.
Stonewall Jackson was an American. He was born in western Virginia, a place that later became part of West Virginia. Many scholars like to speculate as to how the Civil War would have been different if Jackson hadn't died early in the conflict.
Jackson was born and raised in Virginia, in a part of the state that became West Virginia in 1863, when the western part of Virginia seceded from Virginia to become West Virginia.
Prior to the US Civil War, generals Stonewall Jackson and George B. McClellan graduated from the USMA, West Point in the same year. They would face each others armies during the early campaigns of the US Civil War.
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Union General Charles Sidney Winder graduated from West point in 1850. He ranked 22nd in his graduating class of 44 cadets. He fought under Stonewall Jackson and was killed in battle at the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862, he was 32 years old.