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Early Years

Thomas Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West Virginia), the son of Jonathan Jackson, an attorney, and Julia Beckwith Neale.

The future Confederate general signed his name “Thomas J. Jackson” and tradition asserts that his middle name was Jonathan, in honor of his father. The paternal side of Jackson’s family was Scots-Irish, the maternal side Irish.

When Jackson was two years old his father and an older sister died, and his mother gave birth to a daughter, Laura. The widow Julia Jackson’s struggle to support her family was heroic but unsuccessful, and after various trial arrangements Thomas was raised by his uncle Cummins E.

Jackson. His mother, who had remarried, died in 1831.

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As a child Thomas Jackson was self-reliant but shy. As an adult he lacked social graces but impressed people with his sincerity. Jackson was devoted to his sister Laura, but they were later estranged when she did not support the Confede