Description
First edition of Stonewall Jackson: The Life and Military Career of Thomas Jonathan Jackson by Markinfield Addey.
Octavo, 240pp. In the original blue cloth binding, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, worn corners, rubbing to spine. Occasional toning to leaves, a very good copy. Includes a frontispiece portrait protected with tissue guard. (Nevins II, 2815)
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863) graduated from West Point in 1846 and fought in the Mexican War from 1846-1848. In 1851, he resigned from the military and accepted a teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. At the start of the Civil War, Jackson was appointed a colonel in the Confederate Army. In July 1861, he fought in the First Battle of Bull Run where he earned his nickname of “Stonewall.” Jackson participated in many of the military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war, including the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. He received several promotions, becoming a lieutenant general in 1862. On May 2, 1863, Stonewall Jackson was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville when he was mistakenly fired on by one of his own men. He was transferred to a nearby plantation where he died a few days later on May 10.
