Originally published in two volumes, 1898. Includes bibliographical references (pages 799-833, 865) and index.
Contents:
West Point -- Mexico -- Lexington, 1851-1861 -- Secession, 1860-61 -- Harper's Ferry -- The First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run -- Romney -- Kernstown -- M'Dowell -- Winchester -- Cross Keys and Port Republic -- Review of the Valley Campaign -- The Seven Days. Gaines' Mill -- The Seven Days. Frayser's Farm and Malvern Hill -- Cedar Run -- Groveton and the Second Manassas -- The Second Manassas (continued) -- Harper's Ferry -- Sharpsburg -- Fredericksburg -- The Army of Northern Virginia -- Winter quarters -- Chancellorsville -- Chancellorsville (continued) -- The soldier and the man.
Summary:
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, commander of Confederate troops in the Civil War, was known for his battlefield skill--his intransigence at Bull Run (which earned him the name "Stonewall"), his knack for knowing when to attack and retreat, which he showed throughout the Shenandoah campaign, his tactical brilliance at Chancellorsville. He was stern, a strict Calvinist, a single-minded officer for whom religion and the army were everything. Yet he had the undivided loyalty of the men he commanded. This biography, first published in 1898, is a study of Jackson's military campaigns from the Mexican War where he served under Winfield Scott to his death in 1863 at Chancellorsville.
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