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The Fourth Battle of Winchester : toward a new Civil War paradigm

Title: The Fourth Battle of Winchester : toward a new Civil War paradigm / Richard M. McMurry.
Author: McMurry, Richard M.
Publication: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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xvii, 150 pages : maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Students of the Civil War tend to focus attention on the great campaigns and battles that took place in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, a practice that Richard M. McMurry contends has distorted many facets of the war. The July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, for example, came to be widely - if erroneously - regarded as the "decisive battle" and the "turning point" of the war as well as the "high tide" of the Confederacy.
In The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm, McMurry, using a "counter-factual" account of the 1864 campaigns in Virginia, presents a view of the Civil War from the West - moving from the narrow confines of the Old Dominion to the vast Trans-Appalachian region - and gives the reader a new and far more complete understanding of why and how the war ended in a Union victory and of the roles played by several of the conflict's major actors."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Fourth Battle of Winchester -- 2. Other Inconsequential Engagements -- 3. Meanwhile -- 4. The Big Picture -- 5. Implications -- 6. Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy's Conduct of the War -- 7. Conclusions.

ISBN

087338721X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001002197

OCLC

ocm46829283
SCSB-4259288

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Columbia University Libraries