Frank E. Vandiver

Chapter 1 “You may be whatever you resolve to be.”—Jackson
p. 1 He became one of Great Captains, famed not only in his own embattled Confederacy but also in the land of his enemies and far beyond foreign seas. He came to epitomize the good and the virtue of what was finally a lost cause, . . .
Stonewall Jackson rose from uncomfortable obscurity to be a people’s hero, a nation’s shining hope. He proved a hero who never failed. As he led “that incomparable infantry” through victory after victory, Jackson’s fame increased. His nobility of character, his unaffected piety, his strange personal habits—all these things became the treasured possessions of the Southern people. Finally they would become the heritage of America and the world.

Chapter 19 “Duty is ours, consequences are God’s”—Jackson
Excerpt on Chancellorsville, p. 474:
Everything had been done to put more men on the Yankee flank than the enemy had in position. Everything had been done to ensure secrecy, and although it seemed that Hooker ought to have some advance notice, secrecy appeared to have been preserved. Everything had been done to make the attack of the Second Corps decisive. Reaching into his pocket beneath his coat, Old Jack took out his watch and gazed at it intently, lips pressed tight together. It was, he saw, 5:15 p.m.
“Are you ready, General Rodes?”
“Yes, sir,” came the determined response.
“You can go forward then,” Stonewall said, quietly and without visible excitement. . . .