At the First Battle of Manassas, Brig. Gen. Bee said of Jackson, "Look at Jackson there -- Standing like a stone wall." Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Lt. General, C.S.A., was born in Clarksburg on January 21, 1824, and died on May 10, 1863, from wounds received near Chancellorsville, Virginia, while fighting for a cause he believed to be just. He was a world renowned soldier and military strategist who walked humbly with his God.