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===Commemorations=== {{main|List of memorials to Stonewall Jackson}} As an important element of the ideology of the "[[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|Lost Cause]]", Jackson has been commemorated in numerous ways, including with statues, currency, and postage.<ref name="Wallace Hettle 2011" /> A poem penned during the war soon became a popular song, "[[Stonewall Jackson's Way]]". The [[Stonewall Brigade Band]] is still active today. [[West Virginia]]'s Stonewall Jackson State Park is named in his honor. Nearby, at Stonewall Jackson's historical childhood home, his uncle's grist mill is the centerpiece of a historical site at the [[Jackson's Mill State 4-H Camp Historic District|Jackson's Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp]]. The facility, located near [[Weston, West Virginia|Weston]], serves as a special campus for [[West Virginia University]] and the WVU Extension Service. During a training exercise in Virginia by U.S. Marines in 1921, the Marine commander, General [[Smedley Butler]], was told by a local farmer that Stonewall Jackson's arm was buried nearby under a granite marker, to which Butler replied, "Bosh! I will take a squad of Marines and dig up that spot to prove you wrong!"<ref name="Farwell513">Farwell, 1993, p. 513</ref> Butler found the arm in a box under the marker. He later replaced the wooden box with a metal one, and reburied the arm. He left a plaque on the granite monument marking the burial place of Jackson's arm; the plaque is no longer on the marker but can be viewed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center.<ref name="Farwell513" /><ref name="Horwitz232">Horwitz, 1999, p. 232</ref> Beginning in 1904 the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrated [[Lee–Jackson Day|Jackson's birthday as a state holiday]]; the observance was eliminated, with [[Election Day (United States)|Election Day]] as a replacement holiday, effective July 2020.<ref name="Vozzella 2020">{{Cite news |last=Vozzella |first=Laura |date=January 21, 2020 |title=Virginia Senate votes to eliminate Lee-Jackson Day, create new Election Day holiday |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-senate-votes-to-eliminate-lee-jackson-day-create-new-election-day-holiday/2020/01/21/6eb8fea2-3c73-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html |access-date=January 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>[https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB601 Virginia General Assembly SB 601 Legal holidays; Election Day]</ref> Jackson is featured on the 1925 [[Stone Mountain Memorial half dollar|Stone Mountain Memorial half-dollar]]. A [[Stonewall Jackson Monument]] was unveiled on October 11, 1919,<ref name="SI">{{Cite web |title=General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Equestrian, (sculpture). |url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!14729~!0#focus |access-date=July 1, 2020 |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]}}</ref> in Richmond, Virginia. It was removed on July 1, 2020, during the [[2020–2021 United States racial unrest#Monument removals|2020–2021 United States racial unrest]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times-Dispatch |first=MARK ROBINSON Richmond |date=July 2020 |title=UPDATE: Crews on scene preparing for removal of Jackson statue on Monument Avenue |url=https://www.richmond.com/news/local/update-crews-on-scene-preparing-for-removal-of-jackson-statue-on-monument-avenue/article_4f139f30-c849-54d5-b768-de4ac5a02c22.html |access-date=July 1, 2020 |website=Richmond Times-Dispatch |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2020 |title=Stonewall Jackson removed from Richmond's Monument Avenue |url=https://apnews.com/b27b2bfce3ecefe13c917a69a59cd9da |access-date=August 22, 2020 |website=AP NEWS}}</ref> <gallery widths="200" heights="160"> File:Generals Lee and Jackson-1937 Issue-4c.jpg|Robert E. Lee, Stonewal Jackson and Stratford Hall, [[Army and Navy stamp issues of 1936-1937|Army Issue of 1936]] File:CSA-T64-$500-1864.jpg|Portrait on the 1864 [[Confederate States dollar|Confederate $500 banknote]]; Jackson was the only general featured on Confederate currency<ref>{{Cite news |last=Levin |first=Kevin M. |date=2016-04-21 |title=When Dixie Put Slaves on the Money |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/when-dixie-put-slaves-on-the-money |access-date=2023-08-24}}</ref> File:Stonewall Jackson Brigade sheet music.jpeg|The 1863 [[sheet music]] ''The Stonewall Brigade, Dedicated to the Memory of Stonewall Jackson, the Immortal Southern Hero, and His Brave Veterans'' File:Confederate States of America 1863 - Criswell 122.jpg|Jackson on an 1863 Confederate loan File:Stone mountain closer up.jpg|Davis, Lee, and Jackson on [[Stone Mountain]] File:Stonewall Jackson monument, Charlottesville, VA IMG 4221.JPG|The [[Equestrian statue of Stonewall Jackson (Charlottesville, Virginia)|''Thomas Jonathan Jackson'' sculpture]] in downtown [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] File:SWJCWV.jpg|Statue of Jackson in downtown [[Clarksburg, West Virginia]] File:Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum, Stonewall Jackson bust, Monuments and memorials of the Confederate States of America in Georgia (U.S. state) in 2019, from- 19-13-031-museum (cropped).jpg|Bust of Jackson at the [[Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum]] File:Stonewall-jackson-removal.jpg|The [[Stonewall Jackson Monument]] in Richmond, Virginia being removed in 2020 File:Stonewall Jackson with the flag of the Confederate States in art in a stained glass window of the Washington National Cathedral detail, from- Stonewall Jackson Stain Glass (cropped).JPG|Jackson reading the Bible in a Confederate camp in a stained glass window of the [[Washington National Cathedral]]. The windows were removed in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Boorstein |first=Michelle |date=September 6, 2017 |title=Washington National Cathedral to remove stained glass windows honoring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/06/washington-national-cathedral-to-remove-stained-glass-windows-honoring-robert-e-lee-stonewall-jackson/}}</ref> </gallery>
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