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The contract to build Stonewall Jackson was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 21 July 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 4 July 1962.. She was launched on 30 November 1963, sponsored by Miss Julia Christian McAfee, great-granddaughter of General Jackson, [1] [2] and commissioned on 26 August 1964, with Commander John H. Nicholson in command of the Blue Crew ...
Chamberlain and the defeated Union soldiers depart Fredericksburg. Jackson and Lee return to the city, and Lee is confronted by an angry citizen whose house has been destroyed by Union artillery. Jackson spends the rest of the winter at a local plantation, Moss Neck Manor, where he develops a friendship with Jane Corbin, a young girl who lives ...
USS Semmes (DD-189) (destroyer) 21 February 1920: 2 June 1946: USS Semmes (DDG-18) (guided-missile destroyer) 30 November 1962: 14 April 1991: Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general) USS Stonewall (1863) (tender, blockade runner) February 1863: May 1865: Captured, former confederate name retained. [8] USS Stonewall (IX-185) (tanker) 18 ...
USS Stonewall is a name used more than once by the United States Navy: USS Stonewall (1863) , a schooner captured by the Union Navy and placed in service as a ship's tender. USS Stonewall (IX-185) , a tanker built in 1921 at Alameda, California , by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Stonewall Jackson was selected in January 1862, by Capt. James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet at New Orleans. On 25 January Montgomery began to convert her into a cottonclad ram by placing a 4-inch (100 mm) oak sheath ...
The poem honors the famed Confederate Army officer Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, and was written by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906), who stated that he had written the ballad on September 16, 1862; [1] however, Miller & Beacham, who published the song in 1862, stated that the song was found on the body of a Confederate ...
Stonewall Jackson: The Good Soldier is a biography about Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. It was written by Allen Tate and published by Minton, Balch & Co. in 1928. The book takes a partisan stance for the Confederate States of America. The subtitle references the novel The Good Soldier by Ford ...
To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson is an American silent film produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott with Gene Gauntier in the leading role. The action takes place during the Civil War .