Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. JacksonThe charismatic Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, who began his military career in the Mexican War, earned his great fame in the Civil War in a series of brilliantly fought battles. He was given the name Stonewall at the First Battle of Bull Run, when his brigade faced overwhelming odds but held the line. Byron Farwell's engrossing narrative reveals Stonewall Jackson both as a military genius and as a quirky, dark personality radically different from the storybook version that grew up after Jackson's untimely death at Chancellorsville in 1863. |
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Contents
Birth and Boyhood | 3 |
Plebe Year | 15 |
Climbing Upward | 26 |
The War in Mexico | 40 |
At Peace in Mexico | 58 |
Garrison Duty | 68 |
The VMI Professor | 86 |
Religion and Marriage | 102 |
Retreat up the Valley | 298 |
Cross Keys and Port Republic | 314 |
From the Valley to the Swamps | 333 |
Jackson at Mechanicsville and Gainess Mill | 344 |
White Oak Swamp and Malvern Hill | 356 |
Cedar Mountain | 372 |
The Second Manassas Campaign | 392 |
The Invasion of Maryland | 415 |
Europe and Remarriage | 119 |
War | 136 |
Harpers Ferry and Falling Waters | 154 |
The Battle of First Manassas | 172 |
Dam No 5 and Bath | 197 |
Romney and Resignation | 214 |
The Battle of Kernstown | 224 |
Retreat and Reorganization | 240 |
The Battle of McDowell | 253 |
Front Royal | 270 |
Winchester | 284 |
Antietam | 437 |
Respite | 454 |
Fredericksburg | 466 |
Moss Neck | 479 |
Chancellorsville | 492 |
Last Days | 515 |
Epilogue | 527 |
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