Lee-Jackson Day 2024

[Viper21]

It's that time of year again...!! The annual Lee-Jackson Day events will kick off soon. The Stonewall Brigade SCV Camp will mark this years event as our 25th annual celebration in Lexington. This will surely be a great event this year. I personally hope to, & look forward to, seeing some of y'all...! If you've never been, or experienced this event, you should at least once.

Friday's symposium will feature CWT member, Phil Leigh, Chris Mackowski, & Bill Potter. There will be refreshments, & vendors on display from Noon to 5pm. On Saturday we will gather at Jackson's gravesite for our annual service, followed by the parade through downtown Lexington. Our keynote speaker on Saturday is Ann McLean, followed by a catered luncheon.

Follwing the luncheon on Saturday, there will be a brick laying ceremony at Lee Jackson Park. For those of you that were at the park dedication in May, we've been busy as you'll see in a few weeks Saturday evening, there will be a Gala celebrating Jackson's 200th birthday. This will commence with a presentation by Ron Kennedy, a wonderful catered supper, & then a ball.

There will be some special guests present from Elm Springs all weekend. If you ever wanted to experience this event, THIS is the year (in my humble opinion). See you soon..!

You can see the entire event schedule here: https://leejacksonpark.com/event-schedule

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

@Stone in the wall if the weather is good for that weekend, I might just come down.

 

[Viper21]

@Stone in the wall if the weather is good for that weekend, I might just come down.

That would be great..! There will be several CWT members in attendance.

 

[TallTallMan]

I'd love to be there, but can't. Would've loved to have seen Phil Leigh in person.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

That would be great..! There will be several CWT members in attendance.

If the weather stays open I'll drive down from the polar north but I'll have to have tonic and a bubbla to drink from!

 

[John Winn]

I really wish I could attend but, alas, I'm just too far away. I've visited Lexington and think it's a great town. I also have a relative buried not far from Stonewall who would have known him and his wife (she and husband attended the same church and husband was one of the town founders and a very close friend of the commandant of the academy). I left a small token at his grave in 2016.

I wish all well who are involved in making this happen and hope it's a wonderful event.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

This will commence with a presentation by Ron Kennedy

The guy who coauthored The South Was Right?

 

[Viper21]

The guy who coauthored The South Was Right?

I can ask him to autograph a copy for you.

 

[Cavalier]

I can't get to that, but as a great admirer of Lee I intend to celebrate Lee - Jackson day even if they were on the other side. I seem to remember Lee saying he swore off whiskey because the thought he would be too fond of it. If that's the case we have something in common, I just didn't do the swear off part.

John

 

[Stone in the wall]

@Stone in the wall if the weather is good for that weekend, I might just come down.

Good idea, you wouldn't want to miss Ol' Jacks 200th birthday, now would you?

 

[Philip Leigh]

The Stonewall Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans does a superb job on their Lee-Jackson Day commemoration. Considering that both Lee and Jackson are buried in the town, you may want to put it on your bucket list. The commemoration gets better year by year.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

I can ask him to autograph a copy for you.

Maybe next year you can get Thomas DiLorenzo as keynote speaker to really hammer your points home?

 

[Viper21]

Maybe next year you can get Thomas DiLorenzo as keynote speaker to really hammer your points home?

Perhaps we could book you..? Id personally love to hear you lecture in person about Lee, Jackson, & my ancestors.

How many books have you authored/sold...?

 

[Viper21]

I really wish I could attend but, alas, I'm just too far away. I've visited Lexington and think it's a great town. I also have a relative buried not far from Stonewall who would have known him and his wife (she and husband attended the same church and husband was one of the town founders and a very close friend of the commandant of the academy). I left a small token at his grave in 2016.

I wish all well who are involved in making this happen and hope it's a wonderful event.

We'll once again live stream the event/s for those that can't attend in person. It will be viewable on The Stonewall Brigade's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheStonewallBrigade

The feedback we've received from the previous live streams, has been good.

That's a pretty cool connection to Lexington, John..!

 

[John Winn]

We'll once again live stream the event/s for those that can't attend in person. It will be viewable on The Stonewall Brigade's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheStonewallBrigade

The feedback we've received from the previous live streams, has been good.

That's a pretty cool connection to Lexington, John..!

Thanks for the link.

Yeah, the Lexington connection is a good one. Their house still stands (as do a number of buildings he - Col. John Jordan - built). My relative's brother - my GGG grandfather - was a neighbor and good friend of Thomas Jefferson and his sister met her husband when Col. Jordan came up to do the brick work on Jefferson's Monticello. He stayed around a while to build my GGG grandfather's house (where my avatar guy was born; still stands in Charlottesville). I'm a Virginia blueblood on several fronts although I've never lived there. But I'm not a snob and don't feel that any of those people reflect on me; just a genetic chance event that I didn't even know about until maybe ten years ago. Fun to research, though, and I've stood at my GGG grandfather's house, been to Monticello, and seen all the buildings in Lexington Mr. Jordan built (as well as their graves which aren't very far from Jackson's).

 

[gentlemanrob]

I would love to attend this event someday maybe in a few years I will be able to right now I am working on my own camp and will be the new camp commander.

 

[John Winn]

I would love to attend this event someday maybe in a few years I will be able to right now I am working on my own camp and will be the new camp commander.

Where would your camp be ? I have an Anderson CW connection.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Where would your camp be ? I have an Anderson CW connection.

Camp 36 Greenville SC

 

[John Winn]

Camp 36 Greenville SC

Congrats. I have some good connections to Greenville, too, (e.g. my father grew up there) but they aren't CW. Popular place these days I hear.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

How many books have you authored/sold...?

If that's your metric then Myron Jack Smith is the greatest Civil War historian of all time by a landslide.

As long as you keep "honoring Lee and Jackson" synonymous with "celebrating the Confederacy and secession" you cost yourself the support of those who, like Grant, could admire the men despite seeing the bankruptcy of their cause.