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Manassas National Battlefield Park
I have mixed feelings about monuments that glorify Confederate military leaders as the cause of Confederacy was controversial and outdated at best, if not severely flawed or mistaken. I do think preserving them at historical battlefields serve a purpose of helping to scrutinize history. The statue of “Stonewall” Jackson at Manassas was certainly impressive. And I hope we use that to reflect the sorrow and pity of misplaced and wasted valor and heroism.
This house was built about 1830 by Bennett Bunn. It is the best Antebellum house left in Nash County.
Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School was established by an act of the state legislature in 1907 and opened in 1909 as the first juvenile detention facility in North Carolina. The school was named for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The institution is located three miles from Concord. Originally encompassing 290 acres, the campus is 88 acres. Walter Thompson was the first principal
Established to provide a place for troubled youths separate from adult prisoners, this was considered a progressive institution. Its founding was the result of twenty years of organizing by white women's groups in North Carolina. They lobbied for construction of a reformatory for white boys as part of prison reform.
Particularly influential were the King's Daughters (North Carolina) from 1902 on, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs (NCFWC) and the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) also participated in campaigning strongly to raise funds and influence the legislature. When the King's Daughters promised to name the school after General Stonewall Jackson, many Confederate veterans in the legislature finally approved the project, which was authorized in 1907. As a sign of their influence, four women were named to the board of the school.[2]
Boys were generally incarcerated for relatively minor scrapes with the law, including school truancy.
"At the school, the young men lived in a series of dormitory style buildings, and received an academic education as well as learning a trade. Students worked in industries including shoemaking, printing, barbering, textiles, and a machine shop. Many of the young men worked on the school’s farm, learning modern agricultural techniques, and maintaining the fields and cattle herds that supported the school. The print shop produced a small newspaper called The Uplift."
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Both white and African-American women's groups pressed the legislature for similar facilities for white girls, and for African American boys and girls. Such facilities were not constructed for several years: the first, for white girls, was built in 1918 in Moore County and called Samarcand.[4]
Post-World War II
In 1948 as part of continuing statewide efforts to limit "feeblemindedness" and improve the population, the Stonewall Jackson Training School was the site of sterilization by vasectomy of six teenage white males, in operations authorized by the state Eugenics Board. Most sterilizations were performed on girls and women rather than boys or men. North Carolina was one of the last states that continued to perform sterilizations on people under state care.[5]
During the decades of its existence, the School was criticized for abuses common in many detention facilities, such as overcrowding and prisoner violence. At its peak the facility held about 500 youths. At times there were inhumane conditions in which youths were attacked and raped by other inmates. Prison activist Russell Smith stated he suffered such attacks there when imprisoned in the 1960s from age 13-15. As an adult (and after time in state and federal prisons), Smith became an activist against prison violence, founding both the "National Gay Prisoner Coalition" (NGPC) and in 1980 People Organized to Stop Rape of Imprisoned Persons (POSRIP).
In the 1970s, ideas about treating youths changed, and they were seldom incarcerated for offenses as minor as delinquency. The state reduced the population at the facility. The size of the campus had been reduced earlier when the extensive agricultural program was dropped. Now called the Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Facility, it is used for serious offenders involved in drug abuse and weapons-related charges. About 150 young men are generally held here. Sixty acres of the facility are enclosed by a 15-foot-high fence.[6]
Since 1992 the center has had a Pet Therapy Program, in which youth learn to care for dogs. Animals are sometimes made available for adoption outside the center.[7]
as First Lieutenant of Artillery / photograph of an 1885 engraving - taken from an ambrotype taken August 20, 1847
NEW YORK - JUNE 26: People celebrate outside the Stonewall Inn after the U.S. Supreme court same-sex marriage ruling in New York, U.S., on Friday, June 26, 2015
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial near the front entrance of the Manatee County Courthouse in downtown Bradenton.
Taken from Wikipedia: Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School was established by an act of the state legislature in 1907 and opened in 1909 as the first juvenile detention facility in North Carolina. Due to the school's pioneering status and the quality of several of its early buildings, the Stonewall Jackson Training School Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Established to provide a place for troubled youths separate from adult prisoners, it was considered a progressive institution in its day. Its founding was the result of twenty years of organizing by women's groups in North Carolina, lobbying for construction of a reformatory for boys as part of prison reform. Boys were generally incarcerated for relatively minor scrapes with the law, including school truancy.
In 1948 as part of continuing statewide efforts to limit "feeblemindedness" and improve the population, the Stonewall Jackson Training School was the site of sterilization by vasectomy of six teenage white males, in operations authorized by the state Eugenics Board (a shameful and often hidden part of American history).
At its peak the facility held about 500 youths. At times there were inhumane conditions in which youths were attacked and raped by other inmates. Prison activist Russell Smith stated he suffered such attacks there when imprisoned in the 1960s from age 13-15. As an adult (and after time in state and federal prisons), Smith became an activist against prison violence, founding both the "National Gay Prisoner Coalition" (NGPC) and in 1980 People Organized to Stop Rape of Imprisoned Persons (POSRIP).
In the 1970s, ideas about treating youths changed, and they were seldom incarcerated for offenses as minor as delinquency. The state reduced the population at the facility. Now called the Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Facility, it is used for serious offenders involved in drug abuse and weapons-related charges. About 150 young men are generally held here. Sixty acres of the facility are enclosed by a 15-foot-high fence.
In 1999, a fifteen-year battle between the school’s administrators and history buffs over several of the institution’s buildings ended. School administrators agreed to help preserve some of the oldest campus buildings if allowed to demolish other derelict buildings on the property.
This picture shows the Daughters Dorm awaiting funds for restoration. A creepy place.
Director Jarvis, Secretary Jewell, NPCA President and CEO Theresa Pierno, and NPCA Northeast Director Cortney Worrall in front of Stonewall Inn.
Photo Credit: NPCA
New York, N.Y. – After more than two years of building strong public support in the community, across the nation and in Congress, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) celebrates President Obama’s historic designation of Stonewall National Monument, the first national park site dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history. To coincide with national LGBT Pride Month, and just a few days before the 47th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, President Obama today officially designated the area surrounding Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village as our 412th national park site.
The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from 1858 to 1861.
The house is a two-story, four bay, brick dwelling with a large, stone rear addition. It has a side-gable roof and interior end chimneys.
The house was constructed in 1800, by Cornelius Dorman. r. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000. It is the only house Jackson ever owned. He lived in the brick and stone house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.
It housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1907 until 1954; when it was converted to a museum. In 1979 the house was carefully restored to its appearance at the time of the Jacksons' occupancy. The house and garden are owned and operated as a museum by the Virginia Military Institute from April through December. Guided tours are given daily, every half hour, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 P.M.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_House
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Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson's full name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Jackson was given the nickname for bravery at the first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), "standing like a stone wall." General Jackson was instrumental in the Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Antietem, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson died at age 39, as a result of "friendly fire" at Chancellorsville in 1863, after some of his own men mistook him in the darkness and shot him. His monument was unveiled on Oct. 11, 1919 sitting at the corner of Monument Avenue and the Boulevard. His statue faces North with Jackson sitting on his horse holding his reigns in his left hand and his hat in his right
A statue of a member of Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson's II Corps stands at the top of the Monument to the Unknown and Unrecorded Dead. The statue, made of Italian marble, is atop a base of Richmond granite. The 49-foot-high monument stands on a mound over the common grave of 829 Confederate soldiers. The monument was designed by sculptor Thomas Delahunty of Philadelphia. Dedicated in October 1866, Stonewall Cemetery holds the remains of the 2,494 Confederate soldiers brought together from battlefields in the Shenandoah Valley. (See account of 1879 dedication ceremony for the monument here: bit.ly/SxlMbJ)
I joined them for my first Pride 21 years ago, and it was great to see so many young people marching with Stonewall this year too.
Stonewall Jackson Training School in Concord NC is a sad place. A place where young boys were mistreated. A place that is abandoned and falling apart. Yet a place that is full of questions and intrigue and amazing photo opportunities. You never know what is lurking in the shadows, behind the doors or in the reflections in the window panes.
The site where Lt. General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall) died on May 10, 1863. With his death Stonewall would be transformed from a Confederate hero into an American icon.
Stonewall was mortally wounded from shots fired by his own troops.
The American Civil War was the deadliest war in American History, it killed an estimated 360,222 union and over 258,000 confederate soldiers. That's almost 620.000 people that died.
Monument Avenue is one of the main thoroughfares in Richmond, Virginia. I got this shot while enroute
to Richmond's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with my flickr contact John H. Bowman on April 21, 2012. This monument to the Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is one of several along the avenue that honors people prominent in Virginia history.
Considered the most talented Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee, Jackson (Jan. 21, 1824 - May 10, 1863) was wounded by friendly fire in the battle of Chancellorsville and died eight days later of pneumonia at Guinea Station, south of Fredericksburg.
********IN AN EFFORT TO SANITIZE HISTORY, THIS AND THE OTHER STATUES ALONG MONUMENT AVENUE HAVE BEEN REMOVED*********
Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson's full name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Jackson was given the nickname for bravery at the first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), "standing like a stone wall." General Jackson was instrumental in the Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Antietem, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson died at age 39, as a result of "friendly fire" at Chancellorsville in 1863, after some of his own men mistook him in the darkness and shot him. His monument was unveiled on Oct. 11, 1919 sitting at the corner of Monument Avenue and the Boulevard. His statue faces North with Jackson sitting on his horse holding his reigns in his left hand and his hat in his right.
********IN AN EFFORT TO SANITIZE HISTORY, THIS AND THE OTHER STATUES ALONG MONUMENT AVENUE HAVE BEEN REMOVED*********
Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson's full name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Jackson was given the nickname for bravery at the first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), "standing like a stone wall." General Jackson was instrumental in the Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Antietem, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson died at age 39, as a result of "friendly fire" at Chancellorsville in 1863, after some of his own men mistook him in the darkness and shot him. His monument was unveiled on Oct. 11, 1919 sitting at the corner of Monument Avenue and the Boulevard. His statue faces North with Jackson sitting on his horse holding his reigns in his left hand and his hat in his right
********IN AN EFFORT TO SANITIZE HISTORY, THIS AND THE OTHER STATUES ALONG MONUMENT AVENUE HAVE BEEN REMOVED*********
Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson's full name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Jackson was given the nickname for bravery at the first Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), "standing like a stone wall." General Jackson was instrumental in the Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Antietem, and the Battle of Chancellorsville. Jackson died at age 39, as a result of "friendly fire" at Chancellorsville in 1863, after some of his own men mistook him in the darkness and shot him. His monument was unveiled on Oct. 11, 1919 sitting at the corner of Monument Avenue and the Boulevard. His statue faces North with Jackson sitting on his horse holding his reigns in his left hand and his hat in his right