BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Lexington -- Stonewall Jackson Cemetery

VA -- Lexington -- Stonewall Jackson Cemetery:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LEXCEM_050916_18.JPG: Samuel Zenas Ammen. This guy's father had been a sailor in the Confederate navy. He himself was a founder of the Kappa Alpha Order.
2. LEXCEM_050916_29.JPG: This was the original burial plot for Stonewall Jackson's family. Right to left is (1) Preston (probably Margaret Junkin Preston, the sister of Jackson's first wife) , (2) his granddaughter Julia Jackson Christian, (3) Thomas Jackson himself, and (4) the daughter Mary Graham who died shortly after her birth in 1856. Jackson's first wife died during childbirth and the son was stillborn. Jackson married again in 1857, this time to Mary Anna Morrison (1831-1915). Mary Anna gave birth to a daughter, Mary Graham, on April 30, 1858; the baby died less than a month later. In November 1862, Mary Anna again bore a daughter, Julia Laura, the only Jackson child to survive into adulthood. She married William E. Christian in 1885 and she died of typhoid fever in 1889, at age 26. Her children were Julia Jackson Christian (1887-1991), who married Edmund R. Preston; and Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian (1888-1952), who married three times. The grandkids had numerous children and the Jackson lineage lives on. All of their remains were moved under the statue of Stonewall in the center of the cemetery. The person who helped make that possible requested that he be buried in Jackson's place so it's now a different person.
3. LEXCEM_050916_57.JPG: (In the middle) Gen. Francis H. Smith (1812-1890), superintendent of VMI for its first fifty years.
4. LEXCEM_050916_60.JPG: General E.F. Paxton (1826-63), Confederate general killed at Chancellorsville.
5. LEXCEM_050916_64.JPG: Preston family plot. Includes John T. L. (1811-90), founder and professor at VMI.
6. LEXCEM_050916_66.JPG: John Letcher (1818-84), Civil War governor of Virginia
7. LEXCEM_050918_016.JPG: William Nelson Pendleton. He went to West Point, graduating in 1830. He resigned to go into teaching and was ordained as an Episcopal minister in 1838. In 1853, he became minister at Grace Church in Lexington. When the Civil War broke out, he was elected captain of the Rockbridge Artillery, naming his four cannon Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He was promoted to chief of artillery under Joseph Johnston. In March 1862, he was elevated to brigadier general and served with the Army of Northern Virginia for the rest of the war. As a general, he wasn't considered that good but he was one of Lee's commissioners at the surrender at Appomattox. He returned to his church in Lexington after the war and died in 1883.
8. LEXCEM_050918_019.JPG: Alexander Swift Pendleton. Raised in Maryland, his dad William accepted a job as the head of the parish in Lexington. He went to Washington College and, upon graduation, taught there for two years. When the war broke out, he reported to Thomas Jackson in Harpers Ferry and served as his staff officer. After his commission expired, he got an appointment from Jackson and gradually moved up in the ranks. He fought during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Jackson relied on him to do his staff reports after First Bull Run. When Jackson was killed, it was Pendleton who dressed his body for burial. After Jackson's death, he was assigned to Richard Ewell and continued to rise in rank. Jubal Early requested him in for his own Valley campaigns. Pendleton was fatally wounded at the battle of Fisher's Hill on September 22, 1864. His grave marker says he "fell in defense of his country".
9. LEXCEM_050918_031.JPG: Elisha Franklin Paxton. Graduating from Washington College and Yale University, he studied law at the University of Virginia. He settled in Lexington in 1854 to do his law practice but resigned five years later because of failing eyesight. When Virginia seceded, he joined the Rockbridge Rifles as a lieutenant. His men served with Jackson during First Bull Run and became the Stonewall Brigade. He was elected major in October 1861 but didn't get along well with his men and was voted out the following year, at which point Jackson appointed him to his staff as assistant adjutant general with the rank of major. In November 1862, Jackson made "Bull" Paxton a brigadier general in command of the Stonewall Brigade, despite protests from the brigade itself. At the battle of Chancellorsville, he was killed by a minie ball..
10. LEXCEM_050918_050.JPG: John Letcher. He was born and died in Lexington. He graduated from Washington College in 1833 and was eventually admitted to the bar in Virginia. He was editor of the "Valley Star" 1839-50, advocating states rights. At the state constitutional convention on 1850-51, he was instrumental in granting white male suffrage in the state. The slaveowner was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1851-59), advocating compromise. He was elected governor in 1859 over the Whig candidate who was labeling him an abolitionist. He was inaugurated in 1860 and tried to dissuade secessionists but also increased the state militia. He helped organize the Washington Peace Conference, trying to prevent Civil War. Once Virginia seceded, however, he cooperated fully with the Confederate government. He appointed both Lee and Jackson and then relinquished the state forces to Confederate authority. A bit too detail oriented, he spent much of his time as governor dealing with minutia and causing some resource allocation problems for the state. When his term expired in 1864, he retired to Lexington, having failed to win a seat in the Confederate House. Financially devastated by the war, his home in Lexington was burned by David Hunter's troops in 1864. He was imprisoned for six weeks after the surrender but was released. He resumed his law practice and briefly served on the state house in 1875-77. He died in 1884.
11. LEXCEM_050918_058.JPG: Jackson's first wife
12. LEXCEM_050918_088.JPG: William Bumpus. I just liked the name!
13. LEXCEM_050918_091.JPG: Sam Houston, the Texan revolutionary, was born near Lexington, Virginia in 1793. The secession from Mexico was largely inspired by Mexico's banning of slavery in the Texan state (yep, the revolution for independence was actually an assertion of the right to oppress fellow human beings). Sam Houston became governor of Texas in 1827, one year before Sam Houston Letcher was born and named in his honor.
14. LEXCEM_050918_115.JPG: Several people are buried here including Thomas (Stonewall) and his second wife Mary Anna (who died in 1915). His first wife is buried in her family's plot. Also here are several grandchildren -- Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian (Brig. Gen. U.S. Army). Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr. (Col. U.S. Army Air Corps) was killed in action in France and his body was not recovered but he has a marker here. The lemons are because of Jackson's presumed fondness for the citrus.
15. LEXCEM_050918_182.JPG: This marker is to David McKinley, who died in 1854. The marker was erected by his slave, Peter Fleming. Southern apologists love to point out these cases of blacks supporting whites to "prove" that slavery wasn't as bad as northerners say it was.
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