Rebel Yell
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas aStonewalla Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheonaeven Robert E. Leeahe embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our countryas greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jacksonas strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future. In his amagnificent Rebel YellabS.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to lifea (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jacksonas private life and traces Jacksonas brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.Walker, a highly ranked student, had challenged Jackson in trigonometry class over an answer to a problem that Walker had written on the blackboard, insisting that he was right and telling Jackson that he had not made himself clear. Jackson anbsp;...
| Title | : | Rebel Yell |
| Author | : | S. C. Gwynne |
| Publisher | : | Simon and Schuster - 2014-09-30 |
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