Rebel Yell
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Rebel Yell

The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

  1. 637 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rebel Yell

The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

About this book

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling Civil War biography of Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who became a great and tragic national hero.

Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jackson’s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future.

In his “magnificent Rebel Yell…S.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life” (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s private life and traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the American Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.

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Information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2014
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781451673302

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Map of Jackson’s Theater of Operations: April 21, 1861–May 10, 1863
  5. Prologue: Legends of Spring
  6. Part One: The Unimagined War
  7. Part Two: The Man Within the Man
  8. Part Three: Valley of the Shadow of Death
  9. Part Four: Stirrings of a Legend
  10. Part Five: All That Is Ever Given to a Man
  11. Photographs
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. ‘His Majesty's Airship’ Teaser
  14. About S. C. Gwynne
  15. Appendix: Other Lives, Other Destinies
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Photograph Credits
  19. Index
  20. Copyright

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