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The Christmas display at the Stonewall Kitchen in York, Maine was so pretty this year. I didn't plan it but conveniently arrived at the right time. The light at this time of day was perfect for capturing the trees and their lights.
ANSH101: 16. Lights
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
It is difficult to believe that “Stonewall” Jackson only participated in just over half of the Civil War before he was killed. His fame has been so touted that you would think that he had taken part in the whole war. If he had, the war may have turned out differently.
Thomas Jackson was born in 1824 and grew up in what is now West Virginia. When he was two years old, typhoid fever swept through the area killing his father and sister. His mother gave birth to a brother the day after his father died. Afterwards, she moved the family to a one room house to save money. For the next four years, she took in sewing and taught school to support her three remaining children.
Remarried in 1830, she died the following year of complications with childbirth. After being passed around to various family members, he ended up at his uncle’s house. Jackson lived there until accepted to West Point, at the age of 18.
With little formal education, his first years at the Academy where difficult. He was at the bottom of his class academically and struggled to move up. With the determination to succeed, he was able to gradually advance in his class ranking. Jackson graduated 17th of 59 in 1846. His classmates said that if he had another year he would have been first.
Upon graduation he was sent immediately to participate in the Mexican-American war. Over the next few years he was promoted to the rank of Major (brevet) and met both Winfield Scott and Robert E. Lee. At the end of the war he was recognized for having been promoted more often than any other officer during the conflict. He stayed in the army until 1851, when he took a position as a professor at Virginia Military Institute, teaching experimental philosophy and Artillery.
At the start of the Civil War, the Virginia Governor ordered Jackson to take command of several regiments that would later be known as the “Stonewall Brigade”. By June, he had been promoted to Brigadier General and a month later entered the battle that would give him his moniker. The First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) started poorly for the Confederates. With the Union army overwhelming the Confederate positions, General Bee searched for anything to inspire his men. In the distance he saw Jackson with his well-disciplined men. Seeing them he shouted, "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. Rally behind the Virginians!” This helped to turn the tide. But alas, General Bee was killed within minutes of uttering these words. He never knew how his declaration would affect the battle or Jackson.
Promoted to Major General, Jackson would be known from then on as “Stonewall”. Were others gingerly approached the early battles, Jackson took advantage and boldly attacked larger forces and won. When combined with Robert E. Lee’s strategy, the two became a nearly unstoppable duo. Participating in numerous battles, including First and Second Bull Run (First and Second Manassas), Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Jackson repeatedly proved his ability to out maneuver his opponent on the field.
Returning to camp at the end of the day's fighting, his staff was mistaken for Union cavalry and fired upon. Jackson was shot three times but survived. Several of his staff and many of the horses lay dead on the field. Quickly evacuated from the front lines, it was several hours before he received any medical attention. When he did finally get treatment, his left arm was beyond saving and was amputated.
Thought to be on his way to recovery, Jackson remained off the field, convalescing. However, he soon contracted pneumonia. Eight days later Dr. McGuire wrote this about Jackson’s final hours:
A few moments before he died he cried out in his delirium, "Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly! Tell Major Hawks"—then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished. Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."
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Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson has been deemed by many as one of our nation's greatest generals.
His death during the Civil War was a devastating blow to the Confederate Army. This is his grave located in Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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.
This is The abandoned Caney Fork River Bridge, also known as Old Stonewall Bridge in Smith County, TN.
in 1901, the landowners on either side petitioned the county court to build a bridge here across the Caney Fork River near Trousdale's Ferry. The sold stock in the new Caney Fork Bridge Company to finance the bridge. The court gave them permission to build this bridge, to collect tolls equal to the ferry rate, and then give the county the right to purchase the bridge within 30 years at market price. At a cost of $12,000 the Chicago Bridge Company built the bridge in 1907-08. Then in 1927, it was sold to the county. It was in use along the Lebanon-Cookeville road until 1973 when the state built a new bridge for TN264 (From where this photo was taken).
The side of the bridge on the right is upon a bluff and the left side gradually slopes down to ground level. The bridge is a total of 703 feet long with the main 200 foot Camelback through truss seen here. The rest of the bridge to the left is a collection of Pratt truss segments along with Steel I beams forming a 90 degree curve. Following that is another 200 foot segment masonry fill approach. Unfortunately, all of that is on private property and this is about the only view you can get.
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The Stonewall Building is a 12-story, 84,000 square-foot office building on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and 4th Avenue North.
It was completed, as the Martin Office Building, in April, 1925, just in time to house the Birmingham City Commission and other departments after the destruction of the former Birmingham City Hall by fire. The architectural firm of Turner & McPherson had offices on the 12th floor.
The property was sold in 1946. In March 1947 the FBI Birmingham Division moved into the Martin Building, where it remained until moving to the 2121 Building in December 1962.
Today, the building sits unoccupied. (Source: Bhamwiki.com)
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn and a melee ensued in which 13 people were arrested. Word of the raid and the resistance to it soon spread, and the next day hundreds gathered to protest the crackdown and advocate the legalization of gay bars. Further protests erupted in early July, and on July 27, a group of activists organized the first gay and lesbian march, from Washington Square to Stonewall. The events of that summer and their aftermath are often credited as the flashpoint for the gay rights movement in the United States.
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.
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
as First Lieutenant of Artillery / photograph of an 1885 engraving - taken from an ambrotype taken August 20, 1847
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.
This is one of my favorite pieces of art currently on display at the Crocker Art Museum. It depicts a raid/riot on Stonewall Inn in 1969. It's unbelievable that we're still fighting for Gay Rights over 30 years later.
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
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.
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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
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.