Book Review of Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory
Document Type
Book and Media Review
Publication Date
12-2013
Description
Review of: Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory. Wallace Hettle. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8071-3781-9, 224 pp., cloth, $34.95.
Excerpt:
With memory studies of the Civil War and related topics increasing steadily, few luminaries have been as noticeably absent in such work as Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory, Wallace Hettle presents Jackson as understood by the people who knew him—and few truly did—and those who admired him. In his introduction, Hettle pronounces his intention to explore what Jackson meant to people and to analyze what those meanings tell us about the South as a whole. For the most part, this short and lively book accomplishes those goals, and Hettle offers an important new perspective on one of the Confederacy’s most mythologized figures [...]
Citation Information
Nash, Steven, "Book Review of Inventing Stonewall Jackson: A Civil War Hero in History and Memory" (2013). ETSU Faculty Works. 712.
https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works-2/712