Stonewall (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Fritz
- First Published: 1979
- Time of Work: 1824–1863
- Setting: Virginia, Texas, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Thomas Jonathan, Cummins Jackson, Laura Jackson Beverly, Eleanor Junkin Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Robert E. Lee
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Civil War, War, Military life or service, Biography, Confederate States of America, Generals, Military art or science
- Locales: Virginia, Mexico, Texas
Form and Content
Jean Fritz’s Stonewall tells the life story of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, the famous Confederate general. Jackson was born in Chambersburg, Virginia, in 1824. When he was two, his father died, leaving penniless his wife and three small children. When Jackson’s mother died shortly after her second marriage, the boy was sent to live with his bachelor uncle, Cummins Jackson. Cummins treated the serious youth as an adult, and Tom grew to maturity in a tough, male-oriented, slave-owning society. In 1842, with his uncle’s assistance Jackson...
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