Excerpt from the Introduction:"During its (the American Civil War) progress reputations were made that will live for ever in American history, and many remarkablemen came to the front. Among these not the least prominent was "Stonewall Jackson," who to the renown of a great soldier and unselfish patriot added the brighter fame of a Christian hero; and to those who would know what manner of man this Stonewall Jackson was, and why he was so universally revered, so beloved, so trusted by hismen".