[Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall"]: [Letcher, John]:

$750 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

T.J. JACKSON. SOLD BY AUTHORITY OF THE JACKSON MONUMENT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF GENL. THOMAS J. JACKSON, AT THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE LEXINGTON, VA ... An elephant folio engraved portrait of General Thomas J. "Stonewall Jackson," produced by the Jackson Monument Association to raise money for a monument at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. The image is rendered "after a photo from life," specifically the famous "Winchester photograph" taken by Nathaniel Routzahn in 1862. Below the portrait are facsimile signatures of Jackson, former Confederate governor of Virginia, John Letcher, and Col. S. Bassett French. The Jackson Monument Association was started in 1869 with ex-Governor John Letcher as its chairman. Letcher embarked on a wide-ranging speaking tour for the cause, and these prints were sold for the benefit of the Association at the events. Letcher had actually attempted to erect a monument during his tenure as governor, but the project was cut short by the end of the war and fall of the Confederacy. The proposed memorial would finally manifest in 1896 as the VMI's Jackson Memorial Hall, though this was torn down to erect additional dormitories in 1915. By that time, the Institute had received a statue of Jackson from alumnus Moses Ezekiel which stood not far from the original building from 1912 until 2020, when it was relocated to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and New Market Battlefield State Historical

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