Just hours after "Old Stonewall" Jackson executed the most audacious maneuver of his career and delivered a crushing blow against an unsuspecting Union army at Chancellorsville, disaster struck. Seeing horsemen, the 18th North Carolinians shaped one of the most pivotal moments of the Civil War and opened fire on their own men, mortally wounding Jackson. Here, Mackowski and White recount the events of that fateful night, and the tense vigil that ensued as Jackson struggled with a foe even he could not defeat. -- Taken from the publisher account.

"The mortal wounding of the Confederacy's greatest icon" -- Cover.

The attack: Saturday, May 2, 1863 -- The wounding: Saturday, May 2, 1863 -- The operation: Sunday, May 3, 1863 -- The plantation: Sunday, May 3, 1863 -- The arrival: Monday, May 4, 1863 -- The recovery: Tuesday, May 5-Wednesday, May 6, 1863 -- The mission: Sunday, May 3-Thursday, May 7, 1863 -- The last days of Stonewall Jackson: Thursday, May 7-Sunday, May 10, 1863 -- The funeral: Monday, May 11-Friday, May 15, 1863 -- The arm: May 3, 1863 -- The visitors: May 21, 1864 -- The decline: May 1864-August 1903 -- The restoration: 1909-the present -- The shrine today.