Who was Stonewall Jackson married to?

Answer 1

Jackson's first wife was Elinor "Ellie" Junkin, whose father was the President of Washington College (today Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia. They married in 1853 while Jackson was teaching at the other college in Lexington, the Virginia Military Institute. On October 22, 1854 Ellie gave birth to a stillborn son, and one hour later hemorrhaged and died. In 1857 Jackson married again, to the daughter of a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Charlotte, North Carolina, Mary Anna Morrison (Jackson was an extremely devout member of the Presbyterian Church). Mary Anna's sister Isabella was married to Daniel Harvey Hill, who also became a Confederate three star Lieutenant General. Jackson's wife came and spent the winter of 1863-63 with her husband while the army was in winter quarters, and Jackson had his headquarters in a small shed on the grounds of an estate called Moss Neck, the shed having been the "man cave" of the estate's owner, who was himself in the army. Jackson and his second wife had a daughter, Mary Graham, in April 1858, who died at less than a month. They had another daughter born in 1862, named Julia Laura, named for her father's mother and sister, who was six months old when her father died, after being accidentally shot by his own men 150 years ago today. Julia lived to grow up, and was widely thought of as the daughter of the Confederacy in the south. Julia married William Edmund Christian and had two children, but died of typhoid at age 27, in 1889. Mary Anna Jackson outlived her husband by fifty-two years, and died in 1915 at age 83. She wore mourning clothes the rest of her life, never remarried, and published two books about her husband. In 1907 the state of North Carolina tried to offer her a pension, and though she greatly needed the money, she let it be known that she preferred the money go to needy Confederate veterans.