Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — STONEWALL JACKSON’S HOME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STONEWALL JACKSON’S HOME.

Lexington House to Be Turned Into a Confederate Soldiers’ Hospital. The old home- of Stonewall Jackson at Lexington, Va., is to be turned into! a hospital for Confederate soldiers and in this form will stand as a memorial to the famous warrior of the South. Mary Custis Lee Chapter, of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, lias bought the property. Mrs. Jackson was the sole owner. For several years the house had been used as a student’s boarding place and was fast going to decay. Mrs. Jacksop was ill and could not look after it, and* upon her request, the Daughters of thje Confederacy un-

dertook its care. The- disposition they have decided to make of it is an admirable one. Stonewall Jackson purchased the house shortly after he became professor In the Virginia Military Institute. It was altogether too big f<sr his little family, but was the only available house In town at the timtf and he took it, with the Idea that it would be of temporary service. This was jn 1858. Before he could build one better suited to the needs of himself and wife, the war came on and the soldier-teacher went forth to death and immortal fame. The house is on East Washington street In Lexington, Va. It Is built of stone and brick. With the exception of the main entrance It maintains pretty much the same- appearance as It did when the Confederate leader livdd there. Owing to some Improvements which are being made in the street the porch In .front was dispensed with, and what used to be the yay to the basement bow goes straight into the house proper, t f _ / .> > ■ ; {

WHERE STONEWALL JACKSON LIVED.