| Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War Revised Edition Contributor(s): Henderson, G. F. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306803186 ISBN-13: 9780306803185 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1988 Annotation: Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civil War. Not even Lee or Stuart matched his purely military intelligence--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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - United States - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 88000299 |
| Physical Information: 1.72" H x 6.12" W x 9.1" (2.32 lbs) 772 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civil War. Not even Lee or Stuart matched his purely military intelligence-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 classic biography by the British historian G. F. R. Henderson, first published in 1898, is a meticulous study of Jackson's military campaigns from the Mexican War where he served under Winfield Scott to his death in 1863 at Chancellorsville. A romantic view of a great hero, inflected by the political views of the day, this work has remained a standard account of one of the Civil War's great warriors, here introduced by one of the Civil War's best historians. |
