Darkness at Chancellorsville: a novel of Stonewall Jackson's triumph and tragedy

✍ Scribed by Ralph Peters

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates;Forge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1466884037

✦ Synopsis

Ralph Peters'Darkness at Chancellorsville is a novel of one of the most dramatic battles in American history, from the New York Times bestselling, three-time Boyd Award-winning author of the Battle Hymn Cycle.

Centered upon one of the most surprising and dramatic battles in American history, Darkness at Chancellorsville recreates what began as a brilliant, triumphant campaign for the Union--only to end in disaster for the North. Famed Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson bring off an against-all-odds surprise victory, humiliating a Yankee force three times the size of their own, while the Northern army is torn by rivalries, anti-immigrant prejudice and selfish ambition.

This historically accurate epic captures the high drama, human complexity and existential threat that nearly tore the United States in two, featuring a broad range of fascinating--and real--characters, in blue and gray, who sum to an...