Price: $22.95
Type: Hardcover, 223 pages, 6" x 9", 12 maps, 50 illustrations.
ISBN: 0-938289-40-3

This book is a vivid description of one of the Civil War's most strategically important campaigns, skillfully balancing the colorful personalities and the military grand tactics involved.

It is supplemented by sidebars on famous units, weapons, incidents; it includes in-depth personality profiles of Jackson and his opponents.

The volume contains complete orders of battle and specially commissioned maps that clearly illustrate Jackson's operational doctrine.

Also included are unique charts of the daily march distances of Jackson's "foot cavalry," available nowhere else.

In a few short months in the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson rewrote military history. Accompanied by a staff of able subordinates, the Bible-quoting general used his own unique view of past military doctrine to defeat a series of converging enemy armies. American military history has not been the same since.

In this long-awaited revision of his out-of-print classic, the author describes Jackson's war of maneuver and the tactical ideas it represented, without losing sight of the individuals and units on both sides who tested military theory with their lives. John C. Fremont, "Napoleon" Banks, the Louisiana Tigers, Blenker's German Division, and the Stonewall Brigade - they all live again in this colorful but thoroughly written account.

David G. Martin has a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and currently teaches in New Jersey. He is the author of The Great Chancellorsville Campaign and The Vicksburg Campaign in the Great Campaigns series and the monumental Gettysburg July 1 which will be released later in 1995.

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