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Military career of Stonewall Jackson information


Jackson and Sorrel, painting by David Bendann.

Stonewall Jackson’s military career consists of a combination of various brevet, temporary, and permanent appointments in no less than five different military organizations.

Stonewall Jackson was also a civilian military instructor (while still granted military status as an officer) and when the Civil War began Jackson became an officer in the state forces of Virginia. He was later appointed in the Provisional Army of the Confederates States (PACS) while also holding a permanent rank as a major in the Confederate States Army.

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Military career of Stonewall Jackson

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Virginia Military Institute

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Thomas Davis Ranson

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Northern Virginia campaign

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Charles Seaforth Stewart

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Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn

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Armistead Lindsay Long

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Jedediah Hotchkiss

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Bibliography of American Civil War military leaders

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and the Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. Arnold, Thomas J. Early Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson. New York:...

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Jubal Early

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Confederate monuments and memorials

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4th Virginia Infantry Regiment

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the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. Though it suffered heavy losses, two surviving officers resumed political careers after...

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Belle Boyd

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List of Confederate monuments and memorials in South Carolina

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