The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy's Greatest Icon

An exhaustive look at the final hours of the Confederacy's most audacious general.

May 1863. The Civil War was in its third spring, and Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson stood at the peak of his fame. He had risen from obscurity to become "Old Stonewall," adored across the South and feared and respected throughout the North. On the night of May 2, however, just hours after Jackson executed the most audacious maneuver of his career and delivered a crushing blow against an unsusp...