Lexington - Jackson Memorial Hall

Jackson Memorial Hall, built in 1915, is dedicated to the memory of Stonewall Jackson. It features an immense oil painting, the work of Benjamin West Clinedinst - a graduate of the Class of 1880, and depicts the charge of the Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market in 1864. Portraits of distinguished men who have been associated with the Institute and the flags of the 26 states of the union at the time of VMI's founding in 1839 are hung on the walls.