John Esten Cooke

The Life Of Stonewall Jackson (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From Bull Run (Manassas), where Thomas Jackson earned his famous nickname, to tragedy at Chancellorsville, The Life of Stonewall Jackson is the story of how the unassuming Virginian became General Robert E. Lee's right arm and most trusted Confederate commander.

The Life of Stonewall Jackson relates key events in the life of the Civil-War hero from his impoverished childhood, to his education at West Point, auspicious debut in the Mexican-American war, and later professorship at the Virginia Military Institute. The biography also provides a detailed look at the events and battles that allowed the "great faculties of his soul" to bloom before his tragic death on the field of battle in 1863.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443428927
• Artikelnr.: 41262318

Autorenporträt

John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, poet and Civil-War veteran best-known for his writings about his home state of Virginia. Although trained as a lawyer, Cooke was able to support himself with his writing from the very beginning of his career, and eventually produced more than 200 published works, including the novels The Virginia Comedians and The Wearing of the Gray, and biographies about General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Although Cooke served under General J. E. B. Stuart during the American Civil War, he was not suited to military life and returned to his writing at the war's end. Cooke died 1886 and is commemorated in the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, awarded annually by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.