United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)
- Identifier:
- 001125
- Collection Number:
- 1561, Roy Bird Cook Collection
- Title:
- United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)
- Date:
- 1851
- Description:
- Jackson resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and accepted a teaching position at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He would earn the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and the sobriquet, "Stonewall".
- Acquisition Source:
- Cook, Roy Bird
- Acquisition Method:
- Acquired
- Medium:
- print
- Projects:
- West Virginia History OnView
