Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain

Neuausgabe 1990
ISBN: 978-0-8078-1887-9
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Civil War America

At Cedar Mountain on August 9,1862, Stonewall Jackson exercised independent command of a campaign for the last time. Robert Krick untangles the myriad original accounts by participants on both sides of the battle to offer an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under the extraordinary pressures of combat. From diaries, reminiscences, letters, and newspaper articles, Krick reconstructs a vivid and detailed account of the confrontation at Cedar Mountain and Jackson's victory there. Robert Krick untangles the myriad accounts by participants who fought the battle on both sides, and he offers an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under the extraordinary pressures of combat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krick, Robert K.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert K. Krick is author of several books, including Lee's Colonels, Conquering the Valley, and, most recently, The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy. He lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.