STONEWALL JACKSON
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) served as a Confederate general (1861–1863) during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war until his death, Jackson lost an arm and died after he was accidentally shot by Confederate troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
The Stonewall Jackson House
The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson from 1858 to 1861.
The house is a two-story, four bay, brick dwelling with a large, stone rear addition. It has a side-gable roof and interior end chimneys. The house was constructed in 1800, by Cornelius Dorman. Dr. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000. It is the only house Jackson ever owned. He lived in the brick and stone house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.
It housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1907 until 1954; when it was converted to a museum. In 1979 the house was carefully restored to its appearance at the time of the Jacksons’ occupancy. The house and garden are owned and operated as a historic house museum by the Virginia Military Institute from April through December. Guided tours are daily, every hour and half hour, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 P.M. Closes at 5 pm.
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JACKSON’S MEMORIAL CEMETRY
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery is located on South Main Street in downtown Lexington, Virginia, less than a mile from the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. The cemetery was named after Stonewall Jackson, who was buried here in 1863. Also buried here are 144 Confederate veterans, two Governors of Virginia, and Margaret Junkin Preston, the “Poet Laureate of the Confederacy”
The cemetery was first known as the Presbyterian Cemetery. After the Lexington Presbyterian Church conveyed the cemetery to the city in 1949, the cemetery was renamed later that year for legendary Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, who was interred here after his death on May 10, 1863. The Lexington City Council unanimously voted to rename the cemetery in 2020 following the George Floyd protests, and the renaming was unanimously approved on September 3, 2020 as The Oak Grove Cemetery.
