Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (Now known as West Virginia). His education was at the U.S. Military Academy where he learned most of his knowledge he used in the Civil War. After his graduation, which was in 1846 from West Point he was drafted in the Mexican War, until he was allowed to leave in 1848. After he was in the Mexican War, he was an instructor at the Virginia Military …
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…have a place to call "home." They obviously named his daughter Julia after her late grandmother. The Jackson family tried to live as normal as a life as possible. It was very hard for them although. They lived a hard life because many people knew who he was even when he dressed in incognito. He was also gone for a lot of Julia's child hood life, and she was raised mostly by his wife, Anna.