United States Army Major Thomas J. Jackson of Lewis County, Virginia (Later West Virginia)
Date:
1851
Description:
Jackson resigned his U.S. Army commission in 1851 and accepted a teaching position at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. He would earn the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army and the sobriquet, "Stonewall".
Upper left one of a series of C.S.A. cards sold in the North. Showing a fraudulent 'collar'. Center is a sample of the Brady print showing same fraudulent uniform. Brady probably never saw Jackson, but sold thousands of these pictures, which is an 1851 portrait.
