Thomas J. Jackson, a former professor at V.M.I, now commanding a brigade of Virginians from the Shenandoah Valley. Humorless, secretive, eccentric, a stern disciplinarian without tolerance for human weaknesses, a devout Presbyterian who ascribed Confederate successes to the Lord and likened Yankees to the devil, Jackson became one of the war’s best generals, a legend in his own time. The legend began there on Henry House Hill. As the Confederate regiments that had fought in the morning retreated across the hill at noon,
