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  • The Blood-Tinted Waters of the Shenandoah

    The 1864 Valley Campaign's Battle of Cool Spring, July 17-18, 1864

    Author Jonathan Noyalas's study offers not only a history of an overlooked engagement in the oft-contested Shenandoah Valley, but—as Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan notes in the book's Foreword—"a keen reminder that Civil War battles are rich laboratories in which to observe the human experience in all its complexity." Decades after the Civil War's end, Confederate veteran John ... Read more

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  • Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign

    War Comes to the Homefront

    Series series Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
    Virginia's Shenandoah Valley was known as the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy" due to its ample harvests and transportation centers, its role as an avenue of invasion into the North and its capacity to serve as a diversionary theater of war. The region became a magnet for both Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, and nearly half of the thirteen major battles fought in the valley ... Read more

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  • Civil War Legacy in the Shenandoah

    Remembrance, Reunion & Reconciliation

    This regional history examines the process of mourning and reconciliation for the people of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the aftermath of the Civil War.After four bloody years of Civil War battles, the inhabitants of the Shenandoah Valley needed to muster the strength to recover, rebuild and reconcile. Most residents had supported the Confederate cause, and in order to heal the deep wounds of ... Read more

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  • General Philip H. Sheridan

    Life, War, and Memory

    Series series Routledge Historical Americans
    This biography explores General Philip H. Sheridan’s impact on the United States during and after the tumultuous Civil War era, offering a new insight into Sheridan’s changing perspectives on leadership and war, and how various individuals, including family, authors, artists, and entrepreneurs, shaped Sheridan’s legacy after his death in the summer of 1888.The son of Irish immigrants, Sheridan ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Battle of Fisher's Hill: Breaking the Shenandoah Valley's Gibraltar

    Series series Civil War Series
    A fascinating documentation of the Battle of Fisher's Hill, explaining this pivotal Civil War battle and its implications for nearby civilians. The Battle of Fisher's Hill created a greater opportunity to destroy harvests from the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy" than any other Union victory in the hotly contested Shenandoah Valley. Union major general Philip Sheridan's men forced Confederate ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Cedar Creek: Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

    Series series Civil War Series
    Nestled between the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley enjoyed tremendous prosperity before the Civil War. This valuable stretch of land--called the Breadbasket of the Confederacy due to its rich soil and ample harvests--became the source of many conflicts between the Confederate and Union armies. Of the thirteen major battles fought here, none was more influential ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era

    Series series Southern Dissent
    The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The War Went On

    Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era

    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    This book examines the complexities of life for African Americans in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Although the Valley was a site of fierce conflicts during the Civil War and its military activity has been extensively studied, scholars have largely ignored the Black experience in the region until now.Correcting previous assumptions that slavery was ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • For Cause And Comrades : Why Men Fought In The Civil War

    General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, ... Read more

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    In Sherman, acclaimed military historian Lee Kennett offers a bold new interpretation of William T. Sherman as civilian, solider, and postwar army commander. This vividly detailed picture follows Sherman from his education at West Point to his abortive career as a San Francisco banker to his triumphant role as Civil War hero.Sherman's actions during the Civil War were not without controversy, and ... Read more

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