General Jackson Accomplishments

The biggest accomplishment someone can make is when they make something out of their lives regardless of their past. Some people have had awful pasts filled with death, pain, and sorrow. When someone’s had a bad past they can choose to either let it get them down and control their life or they can let it fuel their determination and become something more. General Jackson is someone who chose to let it fuel his determination and made something of himself. Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, to Jonathan Jackson and Julia Beckwith Neale. He had 3 siblings. When Jackson was just two years old he lost his father and his oldest sister to typhoid fever. Because of this Jackson’s mother struggled. She finally remarried to Blake Woodson in 1830. Jackson and the rest of his brothers didn’t quite see eye to eye with their mother’s new husband so they moved out. A year later, Jackson’s mother died during childbirth. The infant lived but just 10 years later died of tuberculosis. Jackson could have given up then and

Jackson was a remarkable General during the war. He was loved by all of his soldiers. As everyone knows, Jackson was killed in an accident. One of his soldiers accidently shot Jackson. Jackson didn’t die right after that. It was eight days later when he died because of pneumonia caused by the removal of his arm. During the Civil War, Jackson launched the Valley of Virginia Campaign, helped General James Longsteet launch a missile attack on the Union Army forcing them to retreat, managed to hold his troops in defensive position during the battle of Antietam until Lee ordered his Army of Northern Virginia to withdraw back across the Potomac against all odds, and Jackson also led the corps to a victory at the Battle of Fredericksburg. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Jackson achieved a whole new level of