Stonewall Jackson, History of a hero

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Jackson was born in what is now West Virginia in 1824, was orphaned as a child and was appointed by his uncle. Although his education was scarce, he received an appointment to West Point, but due to his rudimentary education, he noted that it is powerful for its stock prices. Here he gained a reputation as a quiet, almost withdrawn, young, making him a deep commitment to something of themselves.

Jackson was commissioned as an office Artillery and soon found himself in a war. The United States has been involved in a war with Mexico, where many important civil officers were told to fight in first person. Jackson, certainly not. In several important jobs in and around Mexico City, the young officer distinguished himself as a competent and courageous his guns used against the enemy. General Winfield Scott, the commanding general himself, said Jackson 's performance.

> Jackson remained in Mexico for a little 'and the army in various places, including Florida, served, where his high sense of duty and strict adherence to regulations and ordinances brought the wrath of his commanding post apathetic. This experience Jackson angry with the army in peacetime, and took a job as a professor of natural philosophy (physics), and artillery tactics at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Lexington was a small city clean at the end the Shenandoah Valley.

As an instructor, Jackson has earned the respect of the cadets, over time, but his methods and his personality was difficult to adjust. Every evening after dinner, Jackson would be painfully memorized his lecture the next day. In class he would repeat the lesson, literally. When interrupted by the application of a cadet, would simply word for word, he repeated the last section had just spoken. Needless to say he was a legend. Cadets called him "Tom Fool"> Jackson.

He was also a hypochondriac, always present, a certain imbalance in his body. As a result, they ate only milk and cereal or bread to aid digestion and sit on the chair as a sculpture of an Egyptian pharaoh, was his internal organs to ensure proper alignment. He was also deeply religious, according to the rules of the Bible, as if they were a series of military regulations. He founded a school for slave children Sunday in the city.

Marriedtwice, his first wife died in childbirth - is not a rare event in the nineteenth century in America. He had remarried and bought a house in Lexington and was very satisfied with his situation. Jackson and the VMI Corps provided a military presence for the execution of John Brown. John Brown is not the end but just the beginning of the section would fight the war. When war came, Jackson, like so many others live a quiet life happy, and color as his househas been threatened. Under a Department of Cadets to Richmond to help with drilling new recruits, Jackson was sent to Harper's Ferry, to train new soldiers there.

Jackson had no time for the relaxing atmosphere of the soldiers themselves. He drilled the men hard and established the discipline of the company. Jackson had a full beard and piercing blue eyes. It 'was in his awkward way, careless in dress, wearing a military jacket he wore in Mexico and wearing a cap brokendeeply moved his eyes. He had no interest in the pomp and circumstance of the parade or privileges of rank, that some official research. Quiet, serious, seemingly autonomous, Jackson always his duty as a soldier first to hear anything and was upset when others do not do the same.

Even if completely despised by his new apprentice, is not supported Jackson in the least. The war was serious and called for strict measures. He would follow his ordersand to do his duty. Jackson has done his job well. The device itself, trained in Harpers Ferry, led on the battlefield at Manassas, the first major action of the war. The brigade was ordered to be as calm in the midst of confusion and horror of war - a direct result of strict discipline and demanding Jackson. "As a reward for his outstanding performance in battle of Manassas, Jackson was in command of a small army of 4200 men with the aim of defendingShenandoah Valley.