Reviews for The Stonewall Brigade

The average rating for The Stonewall Brigade based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-12 00:00:00 John Smith The story of a Confederate combat unit originally trained by Stonewall Jackson that distinguished itself in the first Bull Run and then campaigned mostly in Virginia for nearly the rest of the war. You'll feel the towns along I-81 in Virginia (Staunton, Winchester, New Market...) come alive as the men of that region band together to defend their homes. You're given a sense of what it was like to be a common soldier - the impossible physical demands and being totally clueless what was going on - easy to imagine why men put their faiths so strongly in leaders like Jackson and Lee You need SOMETHING to believe it to cope w/the stress. This book was written in 1963 and is the seminal work of one of the preeminent scholars on the Confederacy and a lifelong Virginian. Still highly readable, probably even more than if the topic was covered today. Classic historians accepted that we're all products of our time so don't waste cycles trying to project today's values on those who came from 150+ years before.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-26 00:00:00 Gabriel Engle James I. Robertson Jr. provided an excellent read. This book was one of the best I have read and the personal accounts referenced in the book are on point. The Stonewall Brigade clearly had a storied history in the profession of arms and I hope that people read this and understand that they may have fought for a cause not worthy of today's standard, but they provided an example of the American Infantryman and the fighting spirit that has carried on for decades.