In addition to exploring Jackson's life and character, Robertson details 
                      the general's 1862 campaigns outside Richmond and in the Shenandoah 
                      Valley, as well as his burgeoning relationship with Robert E. Lee. No 
                      one can know what might have happened had General Jackson lived, 
                      but Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend may be the 
                      first book to describe what really happened while he was alive. --This 
                      text refers to the hardcover edition of this title  

                      History Editor's Recommended Book  
                      Confederate cavalry commander Stonewall Jackson, writes James 
                      Robertson, was a brilliant strategist who had a well-deserved reputation 
                      for bravery under fire, which earned him the nickname "Stonewall." 
                      Jackson was also a bundle of contradictions, a man who thrilled at the 
                      sound of the Rebel yell, the "sweetest music I ever heard," while 
                      becoming physically ill at the sight of carnage in the aftermath of battle; a 
                      deeply religious man who demanded that his soldiers pray often, while 
                      he swore to kill every Union soldier he encountered. Jackson's 
                      contributions to the Confederate military cause were of inestimable 
                      importance, yielding turning-point battles at Antietam, Second Battle of 
                      Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. This heavily annotated 
                      biography tells the tale, and very well indeed. --This text refers to the 
                      hardcover edition of this title  

                      Biographies Editor's Recommended Book  
                      A distinguished Civil War historian unravels the complex character of the 
                      Confederacy's greatest general. Drawing on previously untapped 
                      manuscript sources, the author refutes such long-standing myths as 
                      Stonewall Jackson's obsessive eating of lemons and gives a 
                      three-dimensional account of the profound religious faith frequently 
                      caricatured as grim Calvinism. Though the author capably covers the 
                      battles that made Jackson a legend--Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, 
                      etc.--he emphasizes "the life story of an extraordinary man." The result is 
                      a biography that will fascinate even those allergic to military history. 
                      --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title  

                      The New York Times Book Review, Stephen W. Sears  
                      . . . [T]wo dozen writers have attempted biographies, and there are any 
                      number of special studies, monographs and essays. Now going straight 
                      to the head of the class of Jackson biographers, and likely to remain 
                      there, is James I. Robertson Jr. . . . Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the 
                      Soldier, the Legend gives us far and away the sharpest picture we have 
                      ever had of this enigmatic figure. --This text refers to the hardcover 
                      edition of this title  

                      Synopsis  
                      "Lives of (Thomas) Jackson are plentiful . . . but none, for all its brevity, 
                      surpasses Jean Fritz's . . . She places him firmly within the context of an 
                      extraordinary knotted period of American history. . . . Stonewall gives 
                      us both the strangeness and the greatness."--The New York Times 
                      Book Review.  

                      Card catalog description  
                      A biography of the brilliant southern general who gained the nickname 
                      Stonewall by his stand at Bull Run during the Civil War. --