THEY CALLED HIM STONEWALL

by Burke Davis ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

..... but before he proved himself, they called him ""Tom Fool"" and the ""Lemon Squeezer""- and Burke Davis' biography points out both the genius of the general and the eccentricities of the man-the former which is so overwhelmingly to outweigh the latter. The narrative opens with Jackson presiding over the execution of John Brown after Harper's Ferry. It skips ahead to the Valley campaign where Jackson first showed his abilities, then retreats to his early life- and finally transcribes the events between his transfer to Richmond until his death at Chancellorville, a death which literally left the South with bowed heads and tear-filled eyes. As definitive a picture- of Jackson, the officer, and of his generalship, as anyone can hope to read emerges. A man of war and a man of God, he prayed for help before each battle, wreaked the devil's vengeance during it, and gave thanks on its conclusion.... Burke Davis has done a really bang-up job with his book. There doesn't seem to be a minute of the Civil War in which he does not know what Jackson was doing. There are very few minutes in which he doesn't know what Jackson was saying. And there is hardly an inch of ground which Jackson's troops covered with which he is not familiar. All this knowledge forms a base for a completely fascinating and stirring record.

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Publisher: Rinehart

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: NONFICTION