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Stonewall Jackson : the man, the soldier, the legend / James I. Robertson, Jr.

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A biography focusing on Jackson as an individual as well as a military strategist and general, by one of the country's leading Civil War historians. The passage of 130 years has only deepened the fascination and reverence for Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. He...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Robertson, James I.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Macmillan Pub. USA ; Prentice Hall International, ©1997.
Subjects:
Jackson, Stonewall, > 1824-1863.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Biography.
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Confederate States of America. > Army.
Generals.
United States > Confederate States of America.
Biographies.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Struggles of an orphan
  • Coming of age at west point
  • Mexico and a hero's mantle
  • Health, baptism, and controversy
  • Establishing roots in lexington
  • God and "Dearest Ellie"
  • Search for oneself
  • Home life gives way to war
  • Virginia drillmaster
  • Emergence of "Stonewall"
  • Stormy road to a resignation
  • The lessons of Kernstown
  • "A crazy fool"
  • Encouraging hope
  • Victory in the valley
  • Fatigue
  • Duty
  • Recovery at Cedar Mountain
  • Stonewall at Manassas, part 2-- Death around a Dunker church
  • Leading a corps
  • Problems and pleasures of winter
  • The greatest march
  • Crossing the river
  • Epilogue.

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