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Rebel yell and over one million other books are available. He spent most of his career as a journalist, including stints with time as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor, and with texas monthly as executive editor. Presents a narrative profile of the legendary civil war general that shares insights into his military achievements, his role in confederate identity, and his universally mourned death. The scholarship is exemplary, the narrative riveting and richly textured. Born to parents who died early, jackson and his sister had. As much as any person in the confederate pantheoneven robert e. There is some material from before the civil war but the book has the title rebel yell. Rebel yell book tulsa citycounty library bibliocommons. Read rebel yell the violence, passion, and redemption of stonewall jackson by s.
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