Stonewall Jackson’s winter operations in the earliest months of 1862 proved to be one of the most notorious low points of his entire Civil War career. Author Tim Snyder has a new, in-depth look at this overlooked period of Jackson’s service, from Bath to Romney to the rocky fallout that resulted.

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