Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain

This title won the 1990 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award from the Atlanta Civil War Roundtable. It also won the 1991 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award.

At Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, Stonewall Jackson exercised independent command of a campaign for the last time. From diaries, reminiscences, letters and newspaper articles, Robert Krick reconstructs a detailed account of the confrontation at Cedar Mountain and Jackson's victory there.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.