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Stonewall Jackson
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Tom Jackson is born
Tom's real name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson he was born in Clarksburg Virgina, he was the third child of Jonathan Jackson and Neale Jackson. -
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in the United States
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Tom caught and sold fish to the local store
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Tom stays true to his word when someone else wanted to buy the fish that he had already sold to the local store.
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Tom moved in with his Uncle Cummins
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The Black Hawk war began on the American frontier. The conflict would mark the only military service of Abraham Lincoln.
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Andrew Jackson took the oath of office as president for the second time.
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Tom managed crews of slaves cutting timber in the great woods of his uncles.
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Samuel Colt patented the revolver.
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Tom and his brother Warren went off on a adventours busniess along the shores of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, they cut and sold logs to the wonderful new wood-burning steamboats.
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John D. Rockefeller, American oil magnate and philanthropist, was born in Richford, New York.
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The Independent Treasury Act is signed into law by President Martin Van Buren. It makes the federal government exclusively responsible for managing its own funds.
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Tom became constable of the Freeman Creek District of Lewis County
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Tom received an appointment for a meeting at West Point.
Tom received his appointment from President Tyler's short- tempered Secretary of War, John C. Spencer. Tom got into West Point -
Tom was teaching a Negro slave how to read and write, by the time he learned how to sign his name he disappeared on the underground railroad.
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Tom graduated from West Point
He was the seventeenth in his class at graduation. The class of 1846 was to leave the academy directly for fighting in foreign land. -
James Marshall discovers gold near Sutter's Fort, California. News of the find begins the California Gold Rush of 1849.
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The United States census of 1850 counts 23,191,876 population, a 35.9% increase from a decade before. Over three million people now live in its most populous state, New York.
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Stonewalls wounds were finaly healing.
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The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company is established and would become the largest producer in the world of wagons.
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The first elevator is installed by Elisha Otis on Broadway in New York City
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Jackson got remarried
Jackson was a widower of thirty, then he married Mary Anna -
The Civil War started Stonewall was sent off to war.
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Stonewall marched his men westward in an apparent pursuit of Fremont.
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Stonewall and Lee had a long talk about a plan to beat the North.
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Anna Jackson came to Rishmond with their baby daughter, Julia.
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Stonewall rode straight to the smoke and the sound of cannon booming along the Rappahannock Valley. The battle of Chancellorsvillehad begun.
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Stonewalls doctor thought that the best medicine that he could get is sleep.
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Stonewall dies at the age of 39 from pneumonia.
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The Civil War ended