Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 560 pages
The 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
533
INDEX
541
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About the author (1993)

Byron Farwell's (1921-1999) other books, also published by Norton, include "Eminent Victorian Soldiers," "Armies of the Raj," & "Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson."

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