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Tom's real name is Thomas Jonathan Jackson he was born in Clarksburg Virgina, he was the third child of Jonathan Jackson and Neale Jackson.
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Tom received his appointment from President Tyler's short- tempered Secretary of War, John C. Spencer. Tom got into West Point
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He was the seventeenth in his class at graduation. The class of 1846 was to leave the academy directly for fighting in foreign land.
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Jackson was a widower of thirty, then he married Mary Anna
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