Rebel yell the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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 figure...
| Main Author: | Gwynne, S. C. 1953- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Legends of spring
- pt. 1. The unimagined war. Away to Richmond
- The imperfect logic of war
- Fate intervenes
- Discipline and other novel ideas
- A brilliant retreat
- Maneuvers, large and small
- All green alike
- The bullet's song
- Scream of the furies
- pt. 2. The man within the man. Glory and darkness
- A very small, very bitter fight
- A highly unusual man
- The embattled professor
- Deliberately and ingeniously cloaked
- An upright citizen
- pt. 3. Valley of the shadow of death. Where is the thunder of war?
- A preternatural calm
- A season of storms
- A looming peril
- The realm of the possible
- A jagged line of blood
- The shooting war
- A fool's paradise
- Hazards of command
- Hunter as prey
- The professor's time/speed/distance equation
- A lethal footrace
- The taking of Winchester
- Lincoln's perfect trap
- A strange fondness for traps
- Slaughter in a small place
- pt. 4. Stirrings of a legend. Acclaim, and a new mission
- The hilljack and the society boy
- The defense of Richmond
- Victory by any other name
- In which everything changes
- No backing out this day
- The hum of a beehive
- At bay on his baptismal soil
- The mongrel, barefooted crew
- The blood-washed ground
- Stonewall Jackson's way
- pt. 5. All that is ever given to a man. Winter of dreams
- Cometh the hour, cometh the man
- "An iron sabre vowed to an iron lord"
- Immortality
- Appendix: Other lives, other destinies.