Plaster model of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson bust which was cast in bronze for the State Capital Building in Charleston, West Virginia and unveiled in Sept 1959. The sculptor of the bust, Bryant Baker, 222 West 50th Street, New York City autographed this photo to Roy Bird Cook in 1959.
a postcard of the Stonewall Jackson Shrine, Guinea, V., a part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, VA. In this house Stonewall Jackson died May 10, 1863. In a visit to this area in 1928 Winston Churchill is reputed to have said, "That little house witnessed the downfall of the Confederacy."
Postcard portrait of General 'Stonewall' Jackson, 1824-1863. 'Jackson, one of the greatest military geniuses this country has ever produced, was born at what is now Clarksburg, West Virginia. As a boy, he lived and worked at Jackson's Mills near Weston-the present site of West Virginia's State 4-H Camp.'
Portrait of Stonewall Jackson found int he back of the Col. Edward Jackson Bible at Jackson's Mill in 1920. Had been mounted on glass, which was badly cracked. A copy of the Brady 'fake uniform' portrait. Copied by J.B. Gissey, Weston.
Statue of Stonewall Jackson. According to the Wheeling Intelligencer, September 11, 1875, the statue was brought over from England on the S.S. Novia Scotia and donated by B. Hope and others.
Sketch of Stonewall Jackson just before Chancellorsville by Lieutenant Fred Fousse of the 22nd Infantry, Confederate States Army. Liet. Fred Fousse was a Frenchman by birth, enlisted in W. Va. was captured at the Battle of Chancellorsville and imprisoned at Fort Delaware to the end of the war. He there finishes a number of excellent sketches which he sent to his friends to provide funds.
'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.
Jackson, General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' at Chancellorsville
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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.
