Best rated stonewall jackson biography

A magisterial new biography of Stonewall Jackson presents all sides of a complex, often inscrutable man.

By Richard F. Welch

At the time of his death in May 1863, Lieutenant General Thomas J.

“Stonewall” Jackson was the best-known Civil War commander.

If you are looking for something more accessible I would suggest Mighty Stonewall by Frank Vandiver (1988) or They Called Him Stonewall by Burke.

Written in 1997, this biography remains the definitive word on Jackson.

The highly recommended biography Robertson, James I.

Both have released new Jackson biographies this fall: Gwynne's Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner) and Alexander'.

Byron Farwell's engrossing narrative reveals Stonewall Jackson both as a military genius and as a quirky, dark personality radically different from the.

Revered in the South and feared in the North, Jackson so personified the Confederacy’s military prowess that his portrait was featured on the highest-denomination bill issued by the Richmond government. The ink was barely dry on the surrender papers at Appomattox when a legion of historians, biographers and memorialists of all stripes began to turn out a small mountain of publications devoted to his life and exploits.

Now, with his new book, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend (MacMillan, New York, 1997, $40), James I. Robertson crowns a distinguished career devoted to the study of the Civil War with a rich, in-depth presentation of Jackson in all his complexity, tragedy and glory.

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