HENDERSON, G.F.R. [Captain Robert E. Lee].
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.
New York: Longmans, Green and Company , 1898.
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First Edition of Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War; From the library of Captain Robert E. Lee
First edition of "the standard biography of the Confederate commander...sweeping narrative of Jackson’s background, character and pivotal role in the first two years of war, the work contains an abundance of intelligent writing and careful reviews of Jackson’s performance on the battlefield” (Eicher 250). Octavo, 2 volumes, with two portrait plates and numerous folding maps, and the large color folding map at the rear of volume one. This copy belonged to General Lee’s son, Captain Robert E. Lee, with his name on the verso of the front free endpaper in each volume, along with the name of his Virginia home “Romancoke." In very good condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
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.
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.
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