Alternate title: | Stonewall Jackson monument, Lexington, Virginia |
Summary: | Tomb of Stonewall Jackson, Lexington, Virginia, circa 1931-1944. Caption reads: "Stonewall Jackson was born in 1824. He was one of the first professors in the Virginia Military Institute, located at Lexington, Va., founded in 1839. Jackson later became the military genius of the Southern armies during the war between the states. He was killed in 1863, being shot from his horse by one of the men under his command failing to recognize him, thinking he was from the Union forces." Postcard number E-7824, L-22. |
Provider: | Asheville Post Card Co. |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | North Carolina |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Asheville |
Temporal subject: |
1931-1940
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1941-1950
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Lexington |
Topical subjects: |
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863
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Tombs & sepulchral monuments |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology postcard collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
Copyright holder: | Public Domain |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/queries.html. |