Dusty Measure of a Hero's Frame

Knappenberger, E. K.

In this powerful and masterful new work, historian and former military intelligence analyst E.K. Knappenberger turns his razor-sharp analysis to the topic of General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson. Utilizing a philosopher's hermeneutics of locality and drawing on exciting new discoveries in archival and literary settings, Knappenberger evokes a religious historian's unsparing criticism of one of the most sacred traditions in American history. Drawing on the works of Peter S. Carmichael, Bruce C. Levine, Robert K. Krick and Aldine S. Kieffer, Knappenberger deftly navigates the issues of the Rockingham Rebellion, Civil War era conscientious objection, slavery and racism, wartime ethics, Lost Cause revisionism and 19th century tragic narrative traditions. The end result is a compelling new vision of one of the most important moments in America's past.