Stonewall Jackson deserves to be commemorated by the National Park Service
Reason #1: Battlefield Accomplishments
In early August, the National Park Service (NPS) placed a sign inside the Stonewall Jackson Death Site. The Death Site (formerly the Jackson Shrine), a plantation office building where Stonewall Jackson died after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, is part of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (FSNMP).
The sign, written with dry erase marker on a small whiteboard (similar to the white board Karl Rove used to describe the Florida hanging chad clusterfark on Election Night 2000), said this: “‘Stonewall’ Jackson led an army that fought against the United States with keeping slavery as one of their goals. Why then did this place become a United States National Park Site?”
I can’t read the Park Service’s mind. But, to me, this sign, and others like it that FSNMP also placed in the Death Site, seem to indicate that at least some of the folks in the NPS question whether the United States National Park Service should…