Friday was the annual observance of Lee-Jackson Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a holiday that has been celebrated since 1904 to commemorate the birthdays of Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807) and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824).
I admire the military careers of both these men greatly, and wish I had a better tie-in to California than the fact that both served in the Mexican War. which resulted in the territory that became California being added to the United States in 1848
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