Bøger af Wallace Hettle

Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson.

Provides a sample of the enormous documentary record on the domestic population of the Confederate states, offering a glimpse of what it was like to live through a brutal war fought almost entirely on southern soil.

A study of politics in the 19th-century American South. It seeks to illuminate the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals.