my's battery, till shot down, he served it with the greatest coolness and most undaunted courage.

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Resolved, That, while deploring his untimely end, and feeling that his loss to his country is great, and to his family and friends irreparable, still death so

glorious can but tend to lighten the burden of grief to all.

Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the officers of the army stationed at this post wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

"Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be furnished to his "J. DIMICK, Colonel U. S. A."

family.

CYTTLOBHIV

THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON.

HOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON, familiarly known as "Stonewall" Jackson, was born in Clarksburgh, Harrison County, Va., January twentyfirst, 1824. His great-grandfather was an Englishman by birth, and emigrated to the western portion of Virginia. Edward Jackson, grandfather of "Stonewall," was surveyor of and represented Lewis County for a time in the Virginia Legislature. Jonathan Jackson, father of the General, practised law at Clarksburgh, where he married a daughter of Thomas Neal. He became pecuniarily involved, and when he died in 1827 left his children-four in number, two sons and two daughters-penniless. Thomas was at that time but three years of age, and the youngest. He was soon after taken to the house of an uncle in Lewis County, where he remained until the age of seventeen. He labored pon the farm in summer and attended school in the winter; there acquiring the rudiments of an English education. His orphan condition excited the sympathy of the neighborhood, and every assistance was rendered him to carve out his own pathway in life. As a proof of this sympathy he was elected constable of the county of Lewis at the early age of sixteen. At the age of seventeen he set out for Washington on foot to obtain an appointment as cadet in the United States Military Academy at West-Point, in which he succeeded through the influence of some political friends. He entered the Academy in 1842, and in July, 1846, at the age of twenty-two, he graduated with distinction, was appointed brevet second lieutenant and immediately ordered to report for duty in Mexico under General Taylor. In August, 1847, he was made First Lieutenant of Artillery; breveted captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco," August, 1848, and breveted Major "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec," March, 1849. His health became so impaired by the climate that he was unable to discharge his duties, and, on the conclusion of peace, resigned his commission February twenty-ninth, 1852. Upon his return to Virginia, he obtained a professorship in the Virginia Military Institute, and continued in that position until the breaking out of the rebellion. Soon after entering upon his professorship he married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Junkin, Principal of Washington College. This lady and her children died, and he subsequently married Miss Morrison, of NorthCarolina, by whom he had one daughter, an infant at the time of his death. Upon the secession of Virginia he was commissioned Colonel, and proceeded to

Harper's Ferry, there taking command of the small "army of observation" on the third of May, 1861. Upon the approach of his troops Lieutenant Jones, commanding the National forces, evacuated the place, which was immediately occupied by the Virginia troops. He remained in this position until May twentythird, when General Joseph E. Johnston arrived and took command. He was subsequently made Brigadier-General, and upon Johnston's retreat from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, induced by the advance under General Patterson, acted as General Johnston's rear-guard, and fought his first battle of the war at Falling Waters in June. It was while in command in the Valley, under Johnston, that he organized the First brigade, which at the battle of Manassas or Bull Run, gained the sobriquet, from its leader, of "the stonewall brigade." It consisted of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Twenty-seventh, and Thirty-third Virginia regiments, was two thousand six hundred and eleven strong, and comprised the flower of the young men in the valley of the Shenandoah. Jackson's was the brigade in advance of Johnston's reënforcements to Beauregard prior to the battle of Manassas, and participated in the engagement of July twenty-first, 1861, first on the left, and, near the close of the conflict, in the centre. It is claimed that the charge of this brigade pierced the Union centre at two o'clock in the afternoon, and was the initial cause of the subsequent rout of the National forces, thus forming the turning-point of the contest. General Bee, another brigade commander, at the critical moment when the fortunes of the day seemed wavering, and it was feared that all would be lost by reason of the overpowering reënforcements which were being sent forward by the Nationals, met General Jackson, and said bitterly: "General, they are beating us back." General Jackson replied, after a moment's pause: "Sir, we will give them the bayonet." Bee galloped back to his command, and called out to his men, pointing to Jackson: "There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here and we will conquer! Follow me!" The charge was made, and, being supported by reënforcements under Kirby Smith, was successful. During this engagement General Jackson was wounded'in the hand. It was this remark of General Bee which gave to the brigade and to its commander the distinctive appellation of "Stonewall," which it and he ever after bore.

After the battle of Manassas, General Jackson remained with his brigade near Centreville until the early part of October. In September he was advanced to the grade of Major-General, and assigned to the command of the troops in and around Winchester, Va. On the fourth of October General Jackson took leave of his old brigade, concluding his address with the following language: "In the army of the Shenandoah you were the First brigade! In the army of the Potomac you were the First brigade! In the Second corps of the army you are the First brigade. You are the First brigade in the affections of your General; and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down to posterity as the