Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War - Couverture souple

Henderson, G. F. R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306803186 ISBN 13 : 9780306803185

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 1988

Synopsis

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War 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 R Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the great constellation of Confederate heroes, no star shone brighter than General Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson, the subject of G. F. R. Henderson's epic biography Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. For the South, Jackson was the greatest military icon of the early Civil War years and a larger-than-life legend. From 1861 to 1863, Jackson, in his determination and daring, seemed to personify the cause for which Southerners believed they were fighting, just as his death seemed to foreshadow the war's ultimate outcome.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0306803186
• ISBN 13: 9780306803185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 768