Stonewall Jackson I chose Stonewall Jackson as my topic. He is a well-known figure from the Civil War. I chose him because I wanted to research someone on the confederate point of view, opposed to the Union. I wanted to learn more about that side of the war, living in the north I feel I know more about the Union’s role. Stonewall Jackson was born in 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), with the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson. He went through an inadequate country school as a child there. In 1842, he managed to secure a place for himself at the U.S. Military Academy. While there he w....

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