We had na ridden a league, a league, O' leagues but barely three, when we struck a path leading straight through the woods to clarksburg-the first point on the proposed route of the two Marylanders: they meant to feel their way cautiously thence in a northwesterly direction; the elder had one or two acquaintances in the neighborhood of Frederick City that he hoped would assist them.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
January 21, 1824. In the little town of clarksburg, now the county-seat of Harrison, but then no more than a village in the Virginia backwoods, Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on January 21, 1824. His father was a lawyer, clever and popular, who had inherited a comfortable patrimony.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
Nominations to cadetships were made by the Secretary of War, on the recommendation of members of Congress, and in 1842 a vacancy occurred which was to be filled by a youth from the Congressional District in which clarksburg was included.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
