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978-0-89587-244-9
0-89587-244-7
$15.95 paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
186 pages
40 black-and-white photographs
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Loved by his men, feared by
his enemies, understood by perhaps no one, Thomas J.
"Stonewall" Jackson was one of the finest strategists and most
psychologically complex military leaders in history.
This book seeks not to
explain the man but to define him by the places he knew. It visits sites
from Jackson’s orphan days, those of his military education and early
postings, those of his major and minor battles, and those of his
wounding, death, and burial.
Jackson fans will certainly
want to see Manassas, the Shenandoah Valley, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg,
the Seven Days’ sites, and Chancellorsville. But they will be just as
interested in lesser-known places like the church in New York City where
Jackson was baptized, the fort-turned-playground in Florida where he
quit the United States Army, the museum that holds the stuffed hide of
Little Sorrel, his war horse, and the graves of the man who gave up his
West Point slot for Jackson and the Confederate officer who ordered the
volley that fatally wounded the general.
about the author
Clint Johnson is a Civil War reenactor and the
author of In the Footsteps of
Robert E. Lee, Civil War
Blunders, Touring the
Carolinas' Civil War Sites, and Touring
Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites. He lives in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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