Jackson was then removed to Guiney Station to convalesce. What happened to the Washington Street house after Jackson died? Mary Anna then rented the house out for a period before selling it to a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 20th century.
For nearly fifty years, the house—with many additions—served as the only hospital for Rockbridge County. When the hospital moved to its current location, the house was operated as a shrine to Jackson. In , the house was restored to its appearance during the period of Jackson occupancy and reopened to the public.
Ellwood was located about one mile from the field hospital where Jackson was treated. The arm was buried in the family cemetery. The site is currently operated by the National Park Service. Mary Anna Jackson never remarried. Mary Anna and Julia then moved to Charlotte for six years and subsequently spent two years in Baltimore while Julia attended school. After Julia completed her formal education, the two women generally spent winters in Richmond and summers visiting Lexington, though they never stayed in the Washington Street house.
Julia married William Christian in Before her death in at the age of twenty-six, the couple had two children, Julia Jackson Christian and Thomas Jackson Christian. How did Jackson feel about slavery? We do know that he participated in the slave economy.
Jackson owned six individuals while he lived in the Washington Street House. Albert had requested that Jackson purchase him and was hired out a local hotel, Rockbridge Alum Springs, and Virginia Military Institute as a waiter. Amy, who served as a cook, had requested that Jackson purchase her at a public auction.
These I would have been only too glad to give her or they could have been obtained from books of Confederate history. The two last peculiar habits which she airs in such excessive detail were unknown to me, but I can tell a story of that old gray cap, around which a halo of sanctity will linger and which perhaps Miss Johnston has never heard. During the last Winter of his life Gen. Jackson was in Winter quarters at Moss Neck, the home of a Mr.
The host and hostess insisted on giving him quarters in their residence, but he was afraid his military family might be too much of an encumbrance, so he accepted an office in the yard.
In the family was a lovely little girl named Jane, who became a special pet with the General. He loved to hold her upon his knee, and sometimes he played and romped with her, his hearty laughter mingling with that of the child.
He always had some treat in store for her as she came each day—an apple, candy, or cake, but the supply of such things in his scanty quarters become exhausted one afternoon he had nothing to offer her. Glancing around the room his eye fell upon a new gray cap which he had just received from his wife, and which was ornamented with a simple band of gild braid—the most modest mark that a field officer could wear.
The little girl died just a few weeks before Gen. Jackson himself was translated, so their happy spirits were soon reunited in the land of the living. Jackson realized as few men did the desperateness of the cause the South had undertaken, but like Gen. Lee he could not draw his sword against his native State, and he believed that it was absolutely necessary for every man to throw himself heart and soul into the struggle, recking not of self or anything else save the best service he could render his country.
Hence his mind was so wholly occupied with his arduous duties that he found no time to array himself in fine clothes—even forgetting that he was making himself conspicuous in paying so little attention to his dress. In times of peace and when at home no man could have been more particular and immaculate in his dress than Gen. Jackson was no lover of war, declaring emphatically how he deprecated it, and only the sternest sense of duty drove him into it; but having been educated as a soldier, he felt impelled to discharge every rule according to military regulations, and hence he was often misjudged as harsh and unjust by those who had less knowledge of military law, though his heart was really as tender as that of a woman.
I remember in one of my visits to Lexington, Va. Jackson, if all of our officers and men had done their duty as your husband did, the result of the war would have been very different! After graduation he fought in Mexico where he earned the rank of major. Back in the states, he served at various forts before becoming accepting a position in as professor of artillery tactics and natural philosophy at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
He resigned from the army on February 29, Two years later, in , his first wife, Eleanor Junkin, died. Hill of the faculty of Washington College, also in Lexington, Virginia.
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