John J. Dwyer

Stonewall Jackson

He has spent his whole life overcoming the odds. As a boy, he loses his mother, father, brother, and sister, and becomes an orphan bounced around among relatives. He is so painfully shy, he cannot pray, or even speak, in public. He is called an eccentric, a hypochondriac, a poor professor, "Tom Hick," and "Fool Tom." Yet this same man becomes a national hero from his exploits in the Mexican-American War, founds the first successful black Sunday School in Lexington, Virginia, and blossoms into an effective public speaker, an accomplished businessman, and a devout Presbyterian deacon who believes war is "the sum of all evils." One of the turning points of his life is the night he meets the Junkin sisters . . . and Anna Morrison. And all that happens before he gains the name "Stonewall."

Maggie Junkin

The fiery, red-headed “Poetess of the Confederacy,” whose father is a famous educator and theologian, and whose mysterious and stormy relationship with Stonewall Jackson forms the heart of the book.

Ellie Junkin

Maggie’s beautiful and charmed sister. Mature but angelic, her rare and radiant Christianity beams light and joy into the lives of all who meet her. . . and smites Tom Jackson with love for the first time in his life . . .to the heartbreak and fury of Maggie.

Jeb Stuart

Stonewall's swashbuckling Confederate cavalry leader, the merry warrior-poet who is one of Jackson's best friends and the only man who can make him laugh.

Robert E. Lee

One of history's greatest captains of war, whose audacity and devout Christianity form an unbeatable military combination with Stonewall--even as they spur one of the greatest religious revivals in American history, in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Abraham Lincoln

He considers Stonewall Jackson the greatest threat of the war to the capitol of the United States, and sends several armies to destroy him before he can descend upon Lincoln and the White House.