The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 / edited by Gary W. Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Gary W.

Series:

Military campaigns of the Civil War.

Military campaigns of the Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9798890880925

9780807877111

0807877115

OCLC:

171126378