Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson by Robert Lewis Dabney (Sprinkle Publications, 2007)
Most generals selected their military staff based on friendships, family ties, or political expediency. Not Stonewall Jackson. He picked men with character, experience, and, usually, education. Several of his selections had no previous military experience—the author of this biography was one of them. Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney was a nationally known philosopher, theologian, and college professor.  Jackson invited Dabney to join his staff and told him that he could learn on the job—he had all the tools for adjutant general: writing ability, a quick mind, unflagging zeal for the cause, and, (icing on the cake for Jackson), an orthodox Presbyterian like the General.
Dabney served as Jackson’s adjutant throughout the famous Shenandoah Valley Campaign and the Peninsula Campaign, then resigned in broken health. When Jackson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, his wife Mary Anna, lived with the Dabneys and she gave Dr. Dabney access to her husband’s papers. Life and Campaigns was published in 1866, the first authorized biography of the beloved general. Every subsequent biography has had to use Dabney’s work—he knew the general best and was present for the campaign that made him world famous.
Dr. Dabney knew the character and soul of Jackson better than anyone and the deeply important spiritual dimension of Jackson’s life shines on the pages of this biography.  Douglas Southall Freeman said of this book:
Robert Lewis Dabney. . .wrote more than a biography. It shaped itself as a . . .succession of moral lessons, a review of the Southern cause and an expose of the misdeeds of the North. His constant assumption that the Almighty was a Southern partisan shocks the present day reader. The essential accuracy of his book, written in a time of misery and confusion, is a tribute to his memory, his diligence, and his mental capacity.
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Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier Christians and the Impact of the War on Their Faith  by Kent T. Dollar               
(Mercer Univ. Press, 2005)
Many thousands of professing Christians with a strong personal faith in Christ who sought to live consistently by biblical principles, served in both Union and Confederate armies in The War Between the States. Professor Dollar has examined in detail the diaries, letters, and memoirs of nine such men who served in the Confederate armies. They came from different denominations, seven survived the war, three became ministers of the Gospel in the post-war era.
War unleashes all the depravity of the human heart on a mass scale. It tries the personal faith and testimony of Christian men like no other experience could. The author found that “the tribulation of war drove them to new spiritual heights and greater maturity. . .not only did they become more spiritually minded, but their worship took on new significance, they exhibited more humility, and they sought to serve God more actively.”

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