Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims

While Jackson was a cadet at West Point, he collected maxims as part of his quest for status as a gentleman, and in the mid-1850s he carefully inscribed these maxims in a personal notebook, which disappeared after his death in 1863. Subsequent generations assumed this notebook was a casualty of time, but in the 1990s, during his research for a biography of Jackson, the author discovered the long-lost book of maxims in the archives of Tulane University.Jackson's maxims are reproduced here as he wrote them. Accompanying each are insights into the man, including the origin of the adage, one or more quotations that parallel the maxim, how Jackson may have applied the idea to his own life, and how certain maxims offer insights into the mind fo the man.Robertson, James I., Jr. is the author of 'Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims ' with ISBN 9781581824858 and ISBN 1581824858.