Portrait of Lt. Gen. Tho. J. Jackson. He made a winter march in January, 1862 and cleared the South Branch Valley. Resigned when political maneuvering ordered evacuation of Romney. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
Portrait of Lt. Gen Tho. J. 'Stonewall ' Jackson. As a colonel commanding a brigade he had his first Civil War action at Falling Waters, Berkeley County. Three weeks later he was 'Stonewall' at the first Battle of Bull Run. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' at Chancellorsville
Date:
undated
Description:
Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. This old photo was presented to Col. S.A. Cunningham, editor of the Confederate Veteran by Mrs. Thomas J. Jackson and reproduced in that publication.
'Photograph of a painting of Jackson hanging in the Murphy Hotel, Richmond, painted by William Washington. Photo by H.P. Cook, 1937, 'The painting has been restored and is fine condition. It shows Jackson on horse, a dying soldier lifts his hand to Jackson. Washington is said to have been a skilled painter whose work was done just before and during the Civil War. He had studied at Duseldorf and lived in the valled of Virginia near Lexington. He was lame and very tempermental. He carried the Burial of Latane to Europe at the end of the war, got into financial difficulties and sacrificed it.' H.P.C. to R.B.C. October 21, 1937.