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The violence, passion, and redemption of stonewall jackson, tells jacksons story in an engaging narrative with a pace that never flags. Finalist for the national book critics circle award, the epic new york times bestselling account of how civil war general thomas stonewall jackson became a. Gwynnes followup to his award winning empire of the summer moon and it is a phenomenal book that returns us to a time of conflict and discord that defined and defines the american experiment. Gwynne, a 2011 pulitzer prize finalist for empire of the summer moon, casts jackson as a human. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read rebel yell. Jacksons life and once again raises the question what if jackson had lived how would the war have progressed. Gwynne does just that in rebel yell, which deserves comparisons to shelby footes threevolume the civil war for its depth of knowledge and graceful narrative. Gwynne brings jackson ferociously to life new york newsday in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with. Leehe embodies the romantic southern notion of the virtuous.
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Exhaustive in its scope, the book pays particular attention to thomas jonathon jacksons early years as an instructor at the virginia military institute, before the war. Jackson, west point graduate, hero of the mexican war, and in the interim a quirky eccentric former virginia military institute professor plagued by a host. Gwynne delves deep into jacksons private life and traces jacksons brilliant twentyfourmonth career in the. The result is a narrative vivid with detail and insight. A biography of thomas jonathan stonewall jackson january 21, 1824 may 10, 1863 he. Rebel yell is the best biography of stonewall jackson i have ever read. In this book on stonewall jacksons civil war career, gwynne has. The books title is of course, the name given the actual screech of charging confederate soldiers that sent chills up the spine of yankee soldiers. Stonewall jacksons valley campaign the great tragedy of modern historiography is that more historians dont write like s. The violence, passion, and redemption of stonewall jackson s. The violence, passion, and redemption of stonewall jackson, in which he recounts the life and military career of confederate general thomas.
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