Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague

A Confederate artillery officer, William Thomas Poague fought in General "Stonewall" Jackson's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and at Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and elsewhere. After Jackson's death, Poague remained in the Army of Northern Virginia. Gunner with Stonewall sheds light on a neglected aspect of the Civil War, the role of the artillery in combat.

The notebooks containing these memoirs were edited by Monroe F. Cockrell, an expert on the Confederacy and gradua...