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Did Jackson really own slaves. I thought he did not.

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson had purchased an elderly slave named Albert, who was then given the run of the town. His niece [Margaret J. Preston] observed that one day while she and her Uncle Thomas were taking a walk through town, that Albert went up to Jackson and carried on a conversation with him. Answering her inquiries, he told her,

I am letting him work out and pay for himself as he makes the money." He further stated that he got plenty of work and good wages. My impression is that he didn't charge him interest, although I am not sure of this, and that the negro was getting along very well in his payments. ... "It was pleasant to walk about the town with him (Jackson) and see the veneration with which the negroes saluted him, and his unfailing courtesy towards them. To the old gray-headed negro who bowed before him he would lift his cap as courteously as to his commander-in-chief."
Thomas Jackson Arnold, Early Life and Letters of Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, New York, NY: Fleming H. Revell Co. (1915), pp. 338-339

To you Jackson's a terrorist?

But WAIT! There's more:

My dear Maggie:
I am much obliged for your kind letter of the 19th, and for the arrangement respecting Amy and Emma (slaves owned by Jackson). Please have the kindness to go to Winny Buck's occasionally and see that Amy is well cared for, and that not only she, but also Emma, is well clothed. I am under special obligations for the religious instruction you have given Amy, and hope that it may be in your power to continue it. Remember me to her very kindly on the first opportunity, and say that I hope she has rich heavenly consolation. This evening I expect our own pastor (Dr. White) and Dr. McFarland, I will send some money by Dr. White for you to use as occasion may require for Amy and Emma, and I will so manage to keep a supply in the Rockbridge Bank, or elsewhere, subject to your order. . . .
Your affectionate friend,
T. J. Jackson.

And again,

My dear Maggie:
More than once your kind and touching letter respecting the sainted Amy brought tears to my eyes. For several months before leaving home I was impressed with her great devotion to the cause of our beloved Redeemer. She was evidently ripening rapidly for a better world, where I hope that we, and the ransomed of the Lord, may be privileged to join her. I am very grateful to you for your Christian kindness to her. If the money I sent by Dr. White is not enough to meet the little demands connected with her funeral, please let me know how much more is required, and I will promptly attend to having it forwarded, I am much gratified to know that you gave her a decent burial, and that so many followed her remains to the grave. Though such numbers cannot affect the dead, yet such demonstrations of regard are gratifying to the living. . . .
Very affectionately yours,
T. J. Jackson
Ibid., pp 337-338.

Oh the humanity </sarcasm>

Did Jackson really own slaves. I thought he did not.

Jackson owned as many as 9 or 10 slaves at a single time. Some became his property through his second marriage to Anna Morrison, some he bought prior to that marriage, and some he bought after he married. One he bought was a four year old orphan, who Jackson thought Anna could train as a ladies maid. Jackson sold two or three to buy a house for his new bride. Heck of a guy.