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1842–1917
A firsthand voice from the American Civil War, James H. Wood recorded the campaigns and battles he witnessed with the “Stonewall” Jackson regiment. His work offers readers a personal window into one of the war’s most closely remembered commanders.

by James H. (James Harvey) Wood
James H. Wood (1842–1917) was an American author best known for The War; “Stonewall” Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them. The book presents a personal account of Jackson’s campaigns and battles, emphasizing Wood’s own experience and observations.
Wood’s writing is valued for its eyewitness perspective and its focus on the soldiers, movements, and events surrounding the regiment he knew. His surviving work places him among the many nineteenth-century writers who preserved firsthand memories of the Civil War for later generations.