Mary Anna Jackson


Mary Anna Morrison Jackson was the second wife, and subsequently widow, of Confederate Army general Thomas Stonewall Jackson.

Mary Anna Morrison popularly known by friends and family as Anna was born at Cottage Home, the family plantation near Lincolnton, North Carolina. Her father, Robert Hall Morrison, was a Presbyterian preacher and the first president of Davidson College, and her mother, Mary Graham, was the niece of William Alexander Graham, a Senator and later Governor of North Carolina, as well as a Senator in the Confederate Congress during the Civil War. Anna received her formal education at Salem Academy from 1847 to 1849.

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