Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory

by Wallace Hettle

Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807137812
• ISBN13: 9780807137819
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"