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Mary Anna Jackson

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (July 21, 1831 – March 24, 1915) was the second wife, and
subsequently widow, of Confederate Army general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. She was
widely known as the "Widow of the Confederacy" for the next 50 years.

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Biography

Mary Anna Morrison – popularly known by

friends and family as "Anna" – was born at
Cottage Home, the family plantation near
Lincolnton, North Carolina.[1][2] Her
father, Robert Hall Morrison, was a
Presbyterian preacher and the first
president of Davidson College, and her
mother, Mary Graham, was the sister of
William Alexander Graham, a Senator and
later Governor of North Carolina, as well
as a Senator in the Confederate Congress
Born Mary Anna Morrison
during the Civil War. Anna received her
July 21, 1831
formal education at Salem Academy (now
Lincoln County,
Salem Academy and College) from 1847
North Carolina, U.S.
to 1849.[3]
Died March 24, 1915
Anna was introduced to Thomas Jackson (aged 83)
by her sister Isabella, the wife of Daniel Charlotte, North
Harvey Hill, a professor at Washington Carolina, U.S.

College (now Washington and Lee Resting place Stonewall Jackson

University) in Lexington, Virginia; Jackson Memorial Cemetery,
had recently accepted a teaching position Lexington, Virginia
at the nearby Virginia Military Institute. In
Residence Lexington, Virginia
1853, Jackson married Elinor Junkin, the
daughter of Washington College's Other names Esposita
president, Dr. George Junkin; she died in
Known for "Widow of the
childbirth the following October. Around
Confederacy"
Christmas 1856, Jackson called on Anna
in North Carolina while on furlough from Spouse(s) Thomas J.
"Stonewall" Jackson
VMI. They married in the front parlor of
(1857–1863; his
Cottage Home on July 16, 1857.[3] They
death)
purchased a brick house on East
Washington Street in Lexington, where Children 2
they lived from 1858 to the outbreak of
the Civil War in 1861. Their first daughter, Mary Graham Jackson, died in infancy in 1858;
their second, Julia Laura, was born in Charlotte on November 23, 1862, just before the
Battle of Fredericksburg.

Anna lived with relatives in Charlotte during the war, while several members of her family -
including her husband, her brother-in-law D.H. Hill, and her younger brother Joseph
Graham Morrison, who served as Jackson's aide-de-camp[4] - served in the Confederate
Army. She visited her husband at his headquarters house in Winchester during the winter
of 1861-62, at his winter headquarters at Moss Neck Manor in the spring of 1863, and
again at Guinea Station after he was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. She was at
Jackson's bedside when he died on May 10, 1863.

After Stonewall Jackson's death

Anna never remarried after her husband's death; she moved back into Cottage Home with
her father after the war, until moving to Charlotte in 1873 while Julia completed her
education. After Julia married William Christian in 1885, Anna lived with her in Richmond,
then briefly in San Diego, California, before returning to North Carolina. Julia had two
children of her own before she died in 1889, at the age of twenty-six.[5] Anna frequently
attended Confederate veterans' reunions and wrote two books on her husband, a memoir
and a collection of their letters.[6][7]

Anna Jackson died in Charlotte on March 24, 1915, at the age of eighty-three. She was
buried with full military honors next to her husband and daughters at the Stonewall Jackson
Memorial Cemetery in Lexington.[8]

In popular culture

Anna Jackson appears in the novel Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara. In the film
adaptation, she is portrayed by Kali Rocha.

Mrs. Jackson is the subject of the Harnett Kane 1957 novel, The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall,
based on the Jacksons' early years together.[9]

References

f. ^ First president of Davidson College owned Lincoln County plantation |

news@norman

i. ^ Marker: O-44

k. ^ a b Widow of the Confederacy, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, had deep roots in
Lincoln County | news@norman

m. ^ Capt Joseph Graham Morrison (1842 - 1906) - Find A Grave Memorial

n. ^ Stonewall Jackson House - Frequently Asked Questions Archived 2013-12-16 at

the Wayback Machine

p. ^ Jackson, Mary Anna (1895). Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow .

Louisville, KY: The Prentice Press.

r. ^ "Life and letters of General Thomas J. Jackson" .

s. ^ Mary Anna Jackson at Find a Grave

t. ^ "Hartnett T. Kane (1910-1984)" . librarything.com. Retrieved August 2, 2014.

External links

Works by or about Mary Anna Jackson at Internet Archive

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