Civil War CDV Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson C.S.A. 1860s For Sale

Original 1860s Carte de Visite of Lt. General Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson, C.S.A.

Original Civil War-era CDV portrait of Thomas Jonathan \"Stonewall\" Jackson (1824–1863), with the printed caption \"GEN. THOS. J. JACKSON, C.S.A.\" beneath the image inside a ruled double-line border. Jackson is shown in left-facing profile in a double-breasted Confederate general\'s coat with collar insignia.

Cards like this were produced by photographing an engraved or painted portrait and mounting the prints on card stock. After Jackson\'s death in May 1863, demand for his likeness was enormous in both the North and the South, and portraits like this one were sold to be kept in family albums.

• West Point, Class of 1846. Brevetted for gallantry in the Mexican War, then served as professor of natural philosophy and artillery instructor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
• \"Stonewall.\" At First Manassas (Bull Run), July 21, 1861, Gen. Barnard Bee rallied his men by pointing to Jackson\'s Virginia brigade \"standing like a stone wall.\" The name stayed with Jackson and his brigade for the rest of the war.
• 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. With a much smaller force, Jackson marched his \"foot cavalry\" hundreds of miles and won a string of victories, including Front Royal, First Winchester, Cross Keys and Port Republic. It kept large Union armies away from Richmond and is still studied at military schools.
• With Lee\'s Army of Northern Virginia: the Seven Days, Second Manassas, the capture of the Harpers Ferry garrison in September 1862 (more than 12,000 Union prisoners), Antietam and On May 2, 1863, Jackson led a flank march around the Union right and routed the XI Corps. That night, scouting ahead of his lines, he was shot by his own men. His left arm was amputated. Lee wrote that Jackson had lost his left arm, \"but I have lost my right.\"
• Death. Jackson died of pneumonia on May 10, 1863, at Guinea Station, Virginia. His last words are recorded as \"Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.\" He is buried in Lexington, Virginia.

• Standard CDV mount with clipped top corners, typical of the 1860s.
• Printed caption with ruled double-line border on the mount.
• Reverse is blank, with no photographer\'s or publisher\'s imprint.
• Toning and light surface marks. Dark spots in the left margin, a small dark dot to the right of the collar, and a small edge nick on the right side. See scans; the scans are of the actual item.

Free shipping, packed flat in a sleeve with stiff board support.