cover image Stonewall Jackson: Portrait of a Soldier

Stonewall Jackson: Portrait of a Soldier

John W. Bowers. Avon Books, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71164-2

A ludicrously incompetent professor at the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas Jonathan Jackson turned into a brilliant military leader in the early years of the Civil War. ``No previous biographer has delved as sensitively into Jackson's background, his death-haunted youth, his love life, the formation of his unique character or the reasons for his eccentric behavior,'' praised PW. Illustrated. (Sept.)