Happy Birthay, Stonewall Jackson!

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussions' started by Ted Heiks, Jan 21, 2017.

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  1. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Stonewall Jackson was born January 21, 1824.
     
  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Oh, I missed wishing Robert E. Lee a happy birthday. Robert E. Lee was born 19 January 1807.
     
  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    At first it seemed it was just U.S. presidents. What are the criteria for your increasingly comprehensive array of birthday greetings to dead historical figures?
     
  4. novadar

    novadar Member

    Steve, as a Virginian I am surprised that you don't recall that Martin Luther King Jr Day was previously celebrated as "Lee Jackson King Day" in Virginia. This was from 1984 - 2000.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Jackson%E2%80%93King_Day
     
  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I do recall that. This is one of the reasons people from my neck of the woods never say they're from "Virginia" without specifying "Northern" in front of it.
     
  6. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Stonewall Jackson University; has there ever been such an entity, real or fake?

    Andrew Jackson University was one of my favorite DEAC schools, especially the innovative tuition remission program they had for awhile, but then they had to go screw it up and re-brand as New Charter University.
     
  7. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I've suspected (but do not know) that one reason for the name change may have been the existence of two other unaccredited Andrew Jackson universities operating around the same time, one by a judge in New Orleans, and one, also from New Orleans, by the splendidly named Jean Maximillien de la Croix de Lafayette. Letters I used to get from readers suggested some confusion among the three.
     
  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Stonewall Jackson and I share a birthday. Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793.
     
  9. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    I couldn't find any in Bears' Guide.
     
  10. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Oh, well that's a birthday worth noting! Happy belated birthday, Ted!
     
  11. novadar

    novadar Member

    There are at least two (2) Stonewall Jackson High Schools in Virginia.

    One is in Quicksburg near where i grew up in the Shenandoah Valley (where Stonewall Jackson still gets mad props).

    The other is in Manassas, which is in "Northern" Virginia as Steve pointed out but Prince William County is probably the most conservative of the NoVa counties/cities. I'm confident there is still much love for General Thomas J. Jackson among the denizens of said county.
     
  12. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Yeah, Prince William County still hasn't been fully colonized yet.

    But seriously, I'd be surprised if there were only two schools named for him in all of Virginia.
     

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