num_pages: 490
description: The New York Timesbestselling biography of the Souths most brilliant and audacious military commander With the exception of Robert E. Lee no Confederate general was more feared or admired than Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Once derisively known as Tom Fool Jackson was an innovative battlefield strategist who struck terror in the hearts of Union army commanders and inspired Confederate soldiers to victory after victory in the early days of the Civil War. A fanatically religious man Jackson prayed at the start and conclusion of every battleyet showed no mercy when confronting the enemy. Eccentric enigmatic and fiercely intelligent he became the stuff of legend soon after he died from wounds suffered during the Battle of Chancellorsville; his untimely death would help to change the course of the conflict. Based on a wealth of first-person sources including Jacksons private papers and correspondences and the memoirs of family friends and colleagues They Called Him Stonewall is a masterful portrait of the man behind the myth.
language: English
title: They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lieutenant General T. J. Jackson, CSA
publisher: Open Road Media