Stonewall Jackson: Hero of the Confederacy

by J. Tracy Power

Thomas Jonathan Jackson was a hero from humble beginnings. Orphaned at a young age and raised by various relatives, Jackson worked tirelessly to earn an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. So began his military career. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Jackson defended his home state of Virginia, joining the Confederate army and rising in its ranks until he was mortally wounded by friendly fire in 1863.

112 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

J. Tracy Power (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) is an associate professor of History and college archivist at Newberry College, Newberry, S.C. Power, a historian in the State Historic Preservation Office at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History 1986-2013, is the author of the award-winning Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (U. of N.C. Press, 1998). He is also the author of I Will Not Be Silent And I Will Be Heard: Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Penn Center, 1964-1967 (S.C. Department of Archives & History, 1993) and the children's biography Stonewall Jackson: Hero of the Confederacy (The Rosen Publishing Group’s PowerPlus Books, 2005), and the co-editor of The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family 1851-1868 (U. of S.C. Press, 2000).