A biography of the Confederate general who gained the nickname Stonewall for his stand at the first battle of Bull Run during the Civil War.
In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.
Profiles the West Point graduate who became a soldier during the Mexican War in 1846, and describes how his actions as a Confederate general during the Civil War led others to call him "Stonewall."
In the first quarter of the century, on the hills which stand above the Ohio River, but in different States of the Union, were born two children, destined, to all appearance, to lives of narrow interests and thankless toil.
From Guinea Station, where Jackson crosses the river to rest under the shade of the trees, the story follows Jackson’s funeral and burial, the strange story of his amputated arm, and the creation and restoration of the building where he ...
On the night of june 24., a courier brought jackson a copy of Lee's battle plan. He was to continue advancing toward Richmond. As agreed earlier, on june 26 he should have his army moving out by three a.m. , heading for Pole Green ...
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
In SEARCHING FOR STONEWALL JACKSON, historian Ben Cleary examines not only Jackson's life, but his own, contemplating what it means to be a white Southerner in the 21st century.
According to the author, this award-winning bestseller "is not a biography of a great general; it is the life of an extraordinary man who became a great general".
Reproduction of the original: Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G.F.R. Henderson