The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 /

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Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
Description:xxi, 392 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Military campaigns of the Civil War
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5900596
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Other authors / contributors:Gallagher, Gary W.
ISBN:9780807830055 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830054 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-375) and index.
Table of 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 1864
  • Nothing 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