The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia

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No military unit in all of the annals of American history exceeds in reputation Robert E. Lee’s illustrious Army of Northern Virginia. In ten chapters in keeping with exhaustive research, esteemed Civil War scholar Robert K. Krick gives eloquent examination to aspects of the army ranging from biographical sketches and the most efficient and worst books at the subject, to Confederate troop strengths and locating soldier records. He begins with two key events: Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson’s mortal wounding at Chancellorsville; and Jackson’s most famous quarrel with a subordinate, which resulted within the unsuccessful court martial of General Richard B. Garnett. Krick continues with chapters on James Longstreet’s failure at Knoxville and the prickly relationship between Jubal A. Early and the undisciplined Valley Cavalry. His piece on Robert E. Rodes is the first complete portrait of Lee’s best division commander, whose wife methodically burned all of his letters sent home, without end preventing a full-scale biography. Krick, on the other hand, has uncovered a wide selection of unpublished material on Rodes to sketch him in fresh standpoint. Any other essay considers the life and career of Colonel R. Welby Carter – a rogue

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