Jackson spent 10 years as a professor of artillery tactics and natural philosophy (similar to modern-day physics) at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Jackson continued his military service until he accepted a professorship at the Virginia Military Institute in 1851. He quickly earned a reputation for toughness and bravery, and by the war’s end in 1848 he held the rank of brevet major. Jackson left West Point just as the Mexican War was starting and he was sent to Mexico as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. However, Jackson worked hard and eventually met with academic success, graduating in 1846. Older than many of the other students, he initially struggled with the curriculum and endured frequent ridicule for his modest background and relatively poor education. Jackson lived in the home, which is filled with period furniture and some of his personal possessions, during the decade he taught at the Virginia Military Institute.
The future Civil War general was raised by an uncle in the town of Jackson’s Mill, located in present-day West Virginia.ĭid you know? In 1954, Stonewall Jackson's home in Lexington, Virginia-the only home he ever owned-was turned into a museum and historic site. After Julia Jackson remarried in 1830, to a man who reportedly disliked his stepchildren, Thomas Jackson and his siblings were sent to live with various relatives. His father, Jonathan Jackson (1790-1826), an attorney, perished of the same disease a short time later, leaving his wife, Julia Neale Jackson (1798-1831), with three children and considerable debt. When Jackson was two years old, his six-year-old sister died of typhoid fever. Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia).
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