Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

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by S. C. Gwynne


  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 559–60

  Wight, Charles Copland, 28, 84–85

  Wilbourn, Richard Eggleston, 540, 541

  Wilderness, Battle of the, 570–71, 572

  Wilderness of Spotsylvania, 523, 531, 533, 536

  Williams, Alpheus, 211, 271, 292, 294, 297, 455

  Williamsburg, Battle of, 277, 340

  Willis, Edward, 568

  Wilson’s Creek, Battle of, 168

  Winchester, Battle of, 291–98

  casualties in, 292, 297, 298

  Jackson’s heroic status following, 301–2, 331

  Lincoln’s reaction to, 299, 300

  rumors prior to, 288

  Union retreat from, 295–97, 332, 394

  Winchester, Second Battle of, 570

  Winchester, Third Battle of, 567

  Winchester, Va.:

  Anna’s time in, 180, 184, 189, 197, 198, 200

  Army of the Valley’s first occupation of, 175, 176, 179, 180, 193–94, 195, 196

  Army of the Valley’s reoccupation of, 295–96, 298, 301, 302, 303, 304, 306, 307

  Army of the Valley’s retreat from, 196, 200–201, 202, 203

  Civil War’s toll on, 202, 482, 492, 575

  Confederate July 1861 retreat to, 52, 56, 62, 63

  Jackson’s fall 1861 arrival at, 175

  Jackson’s liberation of, 295–96

  Jackson’s love of, 63, 176

  Jackson’s March 1862 approach of, 215–16

  Jackson’s May 1862 march on, 275, 277, 282–87

  Jackson’s post-Antietam camp near, 482, 492

  Jackson’s proposed attack on, 245

  Jackson’s winter 1861 quarters in, 184, 189, 195, 196, 197

  strategic importance of, 176

  Union army’s departure from, 205

  Union army’s occupation of, 195, 200, 206, 209, 211, 212, 213, 219, 228, 236, 237, 239

  Union hospitals in, 236, 298

  Winchester and Potomac Railroad, 303

  Winder, Charles S., 259, 278, 293, 302, 303, 307, 308, 309, 310, 323, 324, 325, 401, 402, 406, 407, 409, 473

  Winder, John H., 555

  Wise, Henry A., 23

  Wolfe, James, 145

  Wolseley, Garnet, 482–83

  Woodson, Blake, 137

  Woodson, William Wirt, 137

  Worcester Spy, 25

  Worsham, John, 183, 225, 233, 403

  Worth, William J., 107, 108, 109

  Yorktown, Battle of, 277

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  Rebel yell : the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson / S. C. Gwynne. —First Scribner hardcover edition.

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  Includes bibliographical references.

  1. Jackson, Stonewall, 1824–1863. 2. Generals—Confederate States of America—Biography. 3. Jackson, Stonewall, 1824–1863—Military leadership. 4. Virginia—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Campaigns. 5. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Campaigns. 6. Confederate States of America. Army—Biography. I. Title.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  S. C. Gwynne is the author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in Time, for which he worked as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor from 1988 to 2000, and in Texas Monthly, where he was executive editor. His work has also appeared in Outside magazine, the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Harper’s, and California magazine. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the artist Katie Maratta, and daughter, Maisie.

 

 

 


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