Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A.
Despite his dismissal from West Point in 1837, Marcellus A. Stovall pursued his childhood ambition for military glory. After attaining the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate army, Stovall led his brigade in battle from 1863 until the Confederate disaster at Nashville, Tennessee, in December 1864. From the ashes of defeat, Stovall rose to postwar prosperity. This book chronicles his life from his birth on the Georgia frontier through the Second Seminole War, the War Between the States, and the Reconstruction period.