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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452031803321

Titolo

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gary W. Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8078-7711-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Collana

Military campaigns of the Civil War

Altri autori (Persone)

GallagherGary W

Disciplina

973.7/37

Soggetti

Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-375) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Two Generals and a Valley: Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early in the Shenandoah; U. S. Grant and the Union High Command during the 1864 Valley Campaign; "The Fatal Halt" versus "Bad Conduct": John B. Gordon, Jubal A. Early, and the Battle of Cedar Creek; The Other Hero of Cedar Creek: The "Not Specially Ambitious" Horatio G. Wright; Never Has There Been a More Complete Victory: The Cavalry Engagement at Tom's Brook, October 9, 1864; A Stampeede of Stampeeds: The Confederate Disaster at Fisher's Hill

Uncivilized War: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the Northern Democratic Press, and the Election of 1864Nothing Ought to Astonish Us: Confederate Civilians in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign; Success Is So Blended with Defeat: Virginia Soldiers in the Shenandoah Valley; New England Cavalier: Charles Russell Lowell and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864; The Confederate Pattons; Bibliographic Essay; Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. This book contains eleven essays that aim to reexamine common assumptions about the campaign, its major figures, and its significance.