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Historical person
1824–1863
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was a Confederate general and one of Robert E. Lee’s most effective subordinates. He gained fame at First Manassas, conducted the Shenandoah Valley campaign and helped win at Chancellorsville, where he was accidentally shot by his own troops and died.
Jackson's reputation grew rapidly during the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, where speed, secrecy and repeated marches allowed a relatively small force to distract much larger Union armies. He later commanded a corps under Robert E. Lee and played major roles at Second Manassas and Fredericksburg. At Chancellorsville in May 1863 he was accidentally shot by Confederate troops after a night reconnaissance and died from complications several days later.
Hourly History’s First Battle of Bull Run shows the battlefield episode that gave Thomas J. Jackson the name “Stonewall” and established his public reputation. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows him from an obscure VMI professor into one of the Confederacy’s most effective commanders, while Bernard Cornwell’s Battle Flag places Jackson’s manoeuvring and pressure on Union forces around the fictional Starbuck Legion. Hourly History’s Stonewall Jackson traces his full military career, command style and death after being wounded by his own men. Griff Hosker’s The Road to Gettysburg takes its scouts through Chancellorsville and the campaign that follows, placing Jackson’s final battle immediately before the Confederacy advances towards Gettysburg without him.
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The Starbuck Chronicles follow Nathaniel Starbuck, the son of a prominent Boston abolitionist preacher, after chance and personal loyalty draw him into Confederate service at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Serving first in the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must prove himself among soldiers who distrust his Northern…
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Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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The Last Cavaliers follows Yancey and Clay Tremayne through the opening and later campaigns of the American Civil War. Military education, cavalry service and loyalties to commanders such as Stonewall Jackson, J. E. B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee place the brothers within the Confederacy’s rise and defeat.…
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