Sketch of Stonewall Jackson just before Chancellorsville by Lieutenant Fred Fousse of the 22nd Infantry, Confederate States Army. Liet. Fred Fousse was a Frenchman by birth, enlisted in W. Va. was captured at the Battle of Chancellorsville and imprisoned at Fort Delaware to the end of the war. He there finishes a number of excellent sketches which he sent to his friends to provide funds.
'Photograph of a painting of Jackson hanging in the Murphy Hotel, Richmond, painted by William Washington. Photo by H.P. Cook, 1937, 'The painting has been restored and is fine condition. It shows Jackson on horse, a dying soldier lifts his hand to Jackson. Washington is said to have been a skilled painter whose work was done just before and during the Civil War. He had studied at Duseldorf and lived in the valled of Virginia near Lexington. He was lame and very tempermental. He carried the Burial of Latane to Europe at the end of the war, got into financial difficulties and sacrificed it.' H.P.C. to R.B.C. October 21, 1937.
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".
