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or the occasional visit from the native game bird

No one know what lay ahead

The Professor from Virginia river the anticipated loss of menThomas J."Stonewall Jackson was a professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA when the war began. A member of the West Point class of 1846, he had served in the Mexican War and emerged from that conflict with the brevet rank of major. In 1851, at the age of twenty seven, Jackson left the army for the classroom. After his death, the VMIs Superintendent, Francis H. Smith appropriately noted, "As a Professor of Natural and Experimental