“Reflected Glory: Letters to Anna.”

The North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial

“Unsurpassed Valor, Courage, and Devotion to Liberty”

“Reflected Glory: Letters to Anna.”  Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, portrayed by Kelly Hinson.

Date:  Sunday, 14 July -- 2:30PM at the North Carolina Forestry Museum, corner of Madison & Columbus Streets, Whiteville, NC.  Light refreshments served after the performance.

Mrs. “Stonewall” Jackson, nee Mary Anna Morrison Jackson was born and reared in Lincoln County, North Carolina and is ably portrayed by Kelly Hinson of Pinehurst.  Kelly has “researched, written and performed in first person & full mourning, the story of our beloved General’s wife, Anna.  Taken entirely from her own factual accounts, as written in her book, “The Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson,” I recount his views on secession, slavery, and the Confederacy.”

The play features selected readings of letters written by Gen. Jackson to his “esposita” during the War, adding Anna’s own thoughts to the events he describes therein.  Ending with his untimely death, after his wounding a week before by friendly fire.  The hour-long play is performed with oil lamp light, enhancing the audience’s feeling of stepping back in time to 1863.

Anna’s story is a love story, but also a tragedy in that she is widowed and remains in mourning for the rest of her life.  She and General Jackson both believed in  “Divine Providence” and that God brought him to the Virginia Military Institute before the War, and that God protected him on the battlefield. He wrote in one of his letters that he believed that “. . .God will, in His own good time and way, give us the victory.”

The presentation is sponsored by the Columbus County Volunteers, Camp 794, North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

For more information please contact Adjutant William Thompson at 910.654.5139, or WAT@ec.rr.com