Product Description : Stephen Dodson Ramseur born in Lincolnton North Carolina in 1837 compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia Commissioned major general the day after his twentyseventh birthday he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army He later showed great skill as a divisional leader in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaigns before he was fatally wounded at Cedar Creek on 19 October of that year Based on Ramseurs extensive personal papers as well as on other sources this absorbing biography examines the life of one of the Souths most talented commanders and brings into sharper focus some of the crosscurrents of this turbulent period