Description
The first edition of Life And Campaigns Of Lieut. – Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, by Professor Robert L. Dabney, D.D.
Octavo, x, [2], 742pp, [2]. Publisher’s three quarter leather, marbled boards, title in gilt over black morocco label, marbled leafends. Complete with steel engraved frontispiece portrait, and eleven illustrations (fold-out map and battle plans). Text block with light foxing throughout, notable foxing to fold-out map of Chancellorsville and other plates. Rubbing to lower edge of boards, notable shelf wear to side panels.
(Sabin 18255) (Nevins II, 50) (Howes, D2)
Confederate commander Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863) graduated from West Point in 1846 and fought in the Mexican War from 1846-1848. In 1851, he resigned from the military and accepted a teaching position at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. At the start of the Civil War, Jackson was appointed a colonel in the Confederate Army. In July 1861, he fought in the First Battle of Bull Run where he earned his nickname, “Stonewall.” Jackson participated in many of the military engagements in the Eastern Theater of the war, including the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run, and the Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. He received several promotions, becoming a lieutenant general in 1862. On May 2, 1863, Stonewall Jackson was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville when he was mistakenly fired on by one of his own men. He was transferred to a nearby plantation where he died a few days later on May 10.
