| Summary: | (Photograph indicates rank of brigadier general.) Thomas Jackson "Stonewall" Jackson graduated from West Point in 1842; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and taught at the Virginia Military Institute for the next ten years. Appointed brigadier general in the Confederate Army in June 1861. Promoted to major general in October 1861 and lieutenant general in October 1862. Major campaigns and battles include First Manassas, the Shenandoah Valley campaign, the Peninsular campaign, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Jackson died as a result of wounds received at Chancellorsville in May 1863; he is buried in Lexington, Virginia. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 3. National Historical Society, 1991.
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