General Stonewall Jackson

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slaves to provide him with pine knots in exchange for reading lessons. This was in violation of a Virginian law at the time that forbade teaching a slave to read or write. Jackson taught the slave as promised and the slave wrote himself a traveling pass and escaped to freedom in the north. Jackson attended school whenever possible. In 1837 he attended classes in the community of Westfield for only 39 days. Two years later he attended a school in the assembly room of the first Lewis County courthouse in Weston. Thomas lived at his uncle's house until the summer of 1842 when he was appointed to the United States Military Academy at Westpoint. Jackson graduated in June 1846 standing 17th out of 59 graduates. ( VMI- Internet)

While at Jackson Mill, Thomas served as a schoolteacher for four months during the winter of 1840- 1841 then he was elected a Lewis County constable. He was only seventeen at the time, a year to young of the legal age of 18 necessary to hold the position. It ...

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