Rebel yell : the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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- ISBN: 1451673299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781451673296 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781451673302 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1451673280 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781451673289 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xi, 672 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-634) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Legends of spring -- pt. 1. The unimagined war. Away to Richmond -- The imperfect logic of war -- Fate intervenes -- Discipline and other novel ideas -- A brilliant retreat -- Maneuvers, large and small -- All green alike -- The bullet's song -- Scream of the furies -- pt. 2. The man within the man. Glory and darkness -- A very small, very bitter fight -- A highly unusual man -- The embattled professor -- Deliberately and ingeniously cloaked -- An upright citizen -- pt. 3. Valley of the shadow of death. Where is the thunder of war? -- A preternatural calm -- A season of storms -- A looming peril -- The realm of the possible -- A jagged line of blood -- The shooting war -- A fool's paradise -- Hazards of command -- Hunter as prey -- The professor's time/speed/distance equation -- A lethal footrace -- The taking of Winchester -- Lincoln's perfect trap -- A strange fondness for traps -- Slaughter in a small place -- pt. 4. Stirrings of a legend. Acclaim, and a new mission -- The hilljack and the society boy -- The defense of Richmond -- Victory by any other name -- In which everything changes -- No backing out this day -- The hum of a beehive -- At bay on his baptismal soil -- The mongrel, barefooted crew -- The blood-washed ground -- Stonewall Jackson's way -- pt. 5. All that is ever given to a man. Winter of dreams -- Cometh the hour, cometh the man -- "An iron sabre vowed to an iron lord" -- Immortality -- Appendix: Other lives, other destinies. |
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Rebel Yell : The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
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Rebel Yell : The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S.C. Gwynne is a journalist who worked for Time and Texas Monthly. He has written several books including Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History and Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson. (Bowker Author Biography)