Semi-Creative Outlet

This a a book report on “The life of General Stonewall Jackson” by M.L. Williamson

The book started out in Jackson’s childhood at about the age of five, he then lived with various relatives till he was of age to join West Point Military Academy.

At the Academy he was always behind the most of the class because he would not move to the next lesson until he had mastered the previous one.

He graduated seventeenth in his class, at the age of twenty-two he was given the rank of second lieutenant of artillery in the U.S. Army.

He then fought in the Spanish-American war, and was promoted to the rank of Major

then the Civil War broke out and he was given command of a group of men later to be known as “the Stonewall Regiment”

Before the end of the war a Confederate patrol thinking that he and his staff were Federals, opened fire and fatally wounded him, a week or so later he died at the rank of Lieutenant-General.

This book walks you through General Jackson Life in an informative and sometimes humorous way, but describes well his life and his great deeds.