' From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jac…
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jacks…
"The mortal wounding of the Confederacy's greatest icon" -- cover.
""May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had arisen from obscurity to become ""Old Stonewall, "" adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of Ma…
The Civil War
by Time-Life Books, Bailey, Ronald H., Josephy, Alvin M., Goolrick, William K., Davis, William C., Clark, Champ, Chaitin, Peter, Channing, Steven A., Korn, Jerry, Jaynes, Gregory, Murphy, Richard W., Nevin, David, Lewis, Thomas A., Street, James, Robertson, James I., Jackson, Donald Dale
Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behi…