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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 ...
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 ...
Jackson County, West Virginia GAR Monument, in front of Jackson County Courthouse, Ripley. The Mountaineer Monument (1912), placed as a response to the 1910 Stonewall Jackson at the Capitol in downtown Charleston which burned in 1921. Moved to the new Capitol Complex, Charleston, Kanawha County
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.
Stonewall Jackson Elementary School -now Hidden Oaks Elementary School. Orlando: Robert E. Lee Middle School, renamed College Park Middle School in 2017. [223] Stonewall Jackson Middle School was renamed Roberto Clemente Middle School in 2020, as was the road in front of the school. Pensacola: Escambia High School's Rebel mascot riots, 1972–1977.
Lt. Gen. T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson. General Jackson commanded what became the Second Corps from the end of the Seven Days Campaign on July 13, 1862, until his death after the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. Jackson's official promotion to lieutenant general was made on October 10, 1862, and "Jackson's Corps" began going by the title ...
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 ...
Jackson reached Bristoe Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad during the afternoon of the 26th, where his troops proceeded to wreck two trains and tear up several miles of tracks. When he learned that there was a Union supply depot at Manassas Junction several miles to the northeast, Jackson detached the brigade of Isaac R. Trimble ...