BY REV. J. W. JONES, D. D. Personal Reminiscences and Anecdotes Proceedings attending the Unveiling of the Bronze Statue of Jack- son-the Gift of England to Virginia-at Richmond, October 26, 1875. STONEWALL JACKSON. PART I. FROM HIS CHILDHOOD TO THE FIRST BATTLE OF MANASSAS CHAPTER I. COUNTRY BOY AND CONSTABLE. THE Jackson family came from England to Virginia in the last century. John Jackson, the first of whom we have mention, settled near Weston, in Lewis County, beyond the Alleghanies, and his son Edward became county surveyor, and served in the Legislature. Jonathan, the son of Edward Jackson, settled in the town of Clarksburg in Harrison County, where he commenced the practise of the law, and married Miss Neal of Wood County. Of his four children by this marriage, two sons and two daughters, THOMAS JONATHAN, born at Clarksburg, January 21, 1824, was the youngest. The events of Jackson's life up to the commencement of the late war are not sufficiently interesting to justify very extended notice, but some particulars deserve to be recorded. The Jacksons did not belong to the class of planters, living in luxury and elegance on the seaboard, but to that energetic, intelligent, and thrifty population which settled in Western Virginia. In the |