Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion And Redemption Of Stonewall Jackson

  • Author: S. C. Gwynne
  • Narrator: Cotter Smith
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 24:57:56
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Synopsis

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.

Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon—even Robert E. Lee—he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country’s greatest military figures. In April 1862, however, he was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause. But by June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world. Jackson’s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged; he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future.

In his “magnificent Rebel Yell…S.C. Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life” (New York Newsday) in a swiftly vivid narrative that is rich with battle lore, biographical detail, and intense conflict among historical figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s private life and traces Jackson’s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War, the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend; his stunning effect on the course of the war itself; and his tragic death, which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero.

Chapters

  • RebelYell 01 Title

    Duration: 45s
  • RebelYell 02 Prologue

    Duration: 23min
  • RebelYell 03 Part1Ch1

    Duration: 19min
  • RebelYell 04 Ch2

    Duration: 31min
  • RebelYell 05 Ch3

    Duration: 12min
  • RebelYell 06 Ch4

    Duration: 26min
  • RebelYell 07 Ch5

    Duration: 13min
  • RebelYell 08 Ch6

    Duration: 37min
  • RebelYell 09 Ch7

    Duration: 18min
  • RebelYell 10 Ch8

    Duration: 31min
  • RebelYell 11 Ch9

    Duration: 31min
  • RebelYell 12 Part2Ch10

    Duration: 37min
  • RebelYell 13 Ch11

    Duration: 24min
  • RebelYell 14 Ch12

    Duration: 22min
  • RebelYell 15 Ch13

    Duration: 21min
  • RebelYell 16 Ch14

    Duration: 45min
  • RebelYell 17 Ch15

    Duration: 18min
  • RebelYell 18 Part3Ch16

    Duration: 23min
  • RebelYell 19 Ch17

    Duration: 17min
  • RebelYell 20 Ch18

    Duration: 50min
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