Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson. By His Widow Anna Jackson.

JACKSON, Anna. [Stonewall Jackson].

$375.00

Item Number: 132548

Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1985.

Facsimile of this rare memoir by the widow of Stonewall Jackson. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. With a typed letter signed by historian and author Lowell Reidenbaugh to fellow and Civil War historian Gary Gallagher laid in as well as a First Day Cover from 1995 with the 32c Stonewall Jackson stamp postmarked from “Stonewall Jackson House Station” in Lexington. Also laid in is a summary of Stonewall Jackson’s library and an email exchange with R.K. Krick printed out for Gary Gallagher regarding the merits of this edition, “The first Mrs. Jackson might be a good candidate. I have never compared it to the big one. What did she add?” In fine condition.

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.