|Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson| General Jackson's
"Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm
on April 26, 1863, seven days before he was wounded at the
Battle of Chancellorsville. |Nickname||Stonewall, Old Jack, Old
Blue Light, Tom Fool| |Born||)January 21, 1824 Clarksburg,
Virginia (now West Virginia) |Died||May 10, 1863) (aged 39)
|Place of burial||Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery |Years of
service|| Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824
– May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American
Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders
after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the
Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in
the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate
pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville
on May 2, 1863. The general survived with the loss of an arm to
amputation, but died of complications from pneumonia eight days
later. His death was a severe