By all accounts he was a very unsocial man, who (according to his staffer Henry Kyd Douglas) "kept himself always very much apart." At the dinner table, he was "as grave as a signpost" and any staffer who ventured to tell "some little jokes" had to be sure they were "very plain ones for him to see them. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. But the man who occasioned such grief was a bundle of contradictions, and some of his most striking qualities were far from flattering. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. Little wonder, given Jackson's legendary feats on the battlefield.
Jackson's death occasioned an outpouring of grief throughout the South.
When she heard that "Stonewall" Jackson had died in Virginia at the midpoint of the Civil War, Martha Ann Haskins wrote in her diary: "I felt as miserable as if I could shut myself in some dark place where I could see no one and there cry, weep, mourn until the war was over." At the time, Haskins was a 16-year-old schoolgirl far away in Tennessee, but her wail of mourning was anything but solitary.
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