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This full 360° panoramic photograph was taken from a few feet away from the final resting place of one of the Confederacy’s greatest heroes, Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Prior to the Civil War, Jackson, a graduate of West Point, was a Lexington resident and faculty member of The Virginia Military Institute. During the war, Jackson rose quickly in The Army of Northern Virginia as Robert E. Lee’s most gifted field commander. In 1863, Jackson was wounded by friendly fire on the evening of his most famous action, the rout of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville. He died a few days later and his body was returned to Lexington and buried in the family plot. In 1891 the monument seen in the center of the panorama was dedicated and Jackson’s remains were reinterred at its base.
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