Death of Stonewall Jackson,
May 1863
Resources from the VMI Archives

• VMI General Orders
  Announcement of Jackson's death
  
  
• Soldiers' & Newspaper Accounts
  • George W. Koontz letter, Danville Artillery
  • John Garibaldi letter, 27th Virginia Infantry
  • Private Henry Dedrick letter, 52nd Virginia Infantry.
  • Derastus E. W. Myers letter, 33rd Virginia Infantry
  • Col. Abram Fulkerson letter.
    An officer, and Jackson's former student, reacts to the news of Jackson's death.
  • Cadet Charles T. Haigh diary.
    Cadet reaction to Jackson's death
  • Cadet Samuel B. Hannah letter
    Jackson's body is returned to Lexington
  • Funeral of Stonewall Jackson
    Newspaper account
  • Rebecca McDowell letter
    The mother of a VMI Cadet, and a cousin of Mrs. Jackson, expresses grief.
    Mrs. McDowell's son, William, would be killed at the Battle of New Market in May 1864.
  • John T. Norton letter. A Union soldier from New York comments on Jackson's death.

Secondary Sources

• "The Last Illness & Death of General Stonewall Jackson."
  In this full-text article (published 1975), a modern physician analyzes Jackson's symptoms and treatment.

• Other sources for this topic
  • Krick, Robert K. "The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy." An essay published in the book Chancellorsville, the Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. (The University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Krick includes an excellent bibliography.
  • Rozear, Marvin P. and Greenfield, Joseph C., Jr. "Let Us Cross Over The River": The Final Illness Of Stonewall Jackson.Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 1995, vol. 103(no. 1): pp. 29-46.
  • Information about Jackson's death at Chancellorsville is also found in many of the books listed in our Jackson bibliography.

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