Table of Contents
Map of Jackson's Theater of Operations: April 21, 1861-May 10, 1863 xii
Prologue: Legends of Spring 1
Part 1 The Unimagined War
1 Away to Richmond 13
2 The Imperfect Logic of War 20
3 Fate Intervenes 32
4 Discipline and Other Novel Ideas 37
5 A Brilliant Retreat 47
6 Maneuvers, Large and Small 52
7 All Green Alike 65
Map of First Manassas: July 21, 1862 70
8 The Bullet's Song 73
9 Scream of the Furies 84
Part 2 The Man Within the Man
10 Glory and Darkness 97
11 A Very Small, Very Bitter Fight 110
12 A Highly Unusual Man 119
13 The Embattled Professor 127
14 Deliberately and Ingeniously Cloaked 135
15 An Upright Citizen 151
Part 3 Valley of the Shadow of Death
16 Where Is the Thunder of War? 161
17 A Preternatural Calm 170
18 A Season of Storms 176
19 A Looming Peril 193
20 The Realm of the Possible 204
Maps of Jackson's Valley Campaign 208
21 A Jagged Line of Blood 212
Map of the Battle of Kernstown: March 23, 1862 214
22 The Shooting War 229
23 A Fool's Paradise 234
24 Hazards of Command 257
25 Hunter as Prey 266
26 The Professor's Time/Speed/Distance Equation 274
Map of the Battles of Front Royal and Winchester: May 23-25, 1862 276
27 A Lethal Footrace 282
28 The Taking of Winchester 291
29 Lincoln's Perfect Trap 299
30 A Strange Fondness for Traps 312
Map of Port Republic: June 9, 1862 314
31 Slaughter in a Small Place 322
Part 4 Stirrings of a Legend
32 Acclaim, and a New Mission 331
33 'The Hilljack and the Society Boy 340
34 The Defense of Richmond 348
Map of the Seven Days Campaign: June 25-July 1, 1862 350
35 Victor)-by Any Other Name 363
36 In Which Everything Changes 383
37 No Backing Out This Day 394
38 The Hum of a Beehive 408
Map of Second Manassas: Jackson's Flank March: August 24-27, 1862 412
39 At Bay on His Baptismal Soil 423
Map of Second Manassas: August 28, 1862 425
Map of Second Manassas: August 29-30, 1862 426
40 The Mongrel, Barefooted Crew 447
41 The Blood-Washed Ground 461
Map of Antietam: September 17, 1862 463
42 Stonewall Jackson's Way 482
Map of Fredericksburg: December 11-15, 1862 495
Part 5 All That Is Ever Given to a Man
43 Winter of Dreams 507
44 Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man 519
Map of Chancellorsville: May 1-3, 1863 524
45 "An Iron Sabre Vowed to an Iron Lord" 539
46 Immortality 552
Acknowledgments 563
Appendix: Other Lives, Other Destinies 565
Notes 577
Bibliography 623
Insert Photograph Credits 635
Index 637