Stonewall  by Jean Fritz
 
Grade: 3-6
 
Summary: Whoever expected that Thomas Jackson, a penniless orphan in West Virginia, would turn out to be a national hero? Certainly not his friends from childhood. They laughed about the time he fell into the river on his way to church, picked himself up, went on, and sat straight through services in his wet clothes. Later his classmates at West Point, watching him sweat through his recitations, doubted he would even graduate. He was the kind of odd, out-of-the-way man who attracted nicknames wherever he went from the "The General" as a cadet, the "Iron Duke" from his students at Virginia Military Institute, and "Square Box" because of his enormous feet. But his most famous nickname is "Stonewall" which he earned at the Battle of Bull Run, and fittingly so, for it described not only his outward eccentricities but his inward determination of the inner core of the one of America's most brilliant and indefatigable military leaders.
 
Book Details
 
Format: Hardcover with mylar dj
 
Condition : good; Ex-library book with plastic dj. Pocket on front, free endpage. Label inside back cover. Library stamp on copyright page. On one of the rear, blank pages, there are stamped dates. Binding is good and pages are tight.
 
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
 
ISBN: 0399206981
  
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