... graduate seventeenth of his class at West Point Academy. Immidiately following his graduation from West Point, he served in the Mexican War, carrying two brevets and rank of major. After his time in the Mexican war, Jackson accepted a professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. At the institute he taught cadets in astronomy, optics, mechanics ... his life returned to some degree of normalcy. The devastating events in his past would prepare him for what he was about to face in the war to come. Jackson would again enter the miltary in April of 1861. He was then given a brigade under t...

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