Research Catalog

Title

Struggle for the Shenandoah : essays on the 1864 valley campaign / edited by Gary W. Gallagher.

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1991.

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Additional Authors

• Gallagher, Gary W.
• Wert, Jeffry D.
• Greene, A. Wilson.
• Krick, Robert K.
• Frye, Dennis E.

Description

x, 137 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.

Summary

Few geographical regions played a more critical role in the American Civil War than the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At no time did the Valley loom larger on the military landscape than in the late summer and fall of 1864, when the armies of Jubal A. Early and Philip H. Sheridan waged their bitter struggle. The military and political stakes were immense. War on civilians first became policy on a theater-wide scale, and tactical operations ranged from guerrilla activity to the grand encounter at Cedar Creek. Without an appreciation of why the Shenandoah Valley became first a battleground and then a wasteland, it is impossible to understand fully the last year of the war. These essays seek to illuminate various facets of the 1864 Valley campaign. The authors question the relative importance of operations in the Shenandoah, the respective performances of Early and Sheridan, and the roles of Confederate guerrillas and cavalry. Often departing from conventional views and sometimes disagreeing with one another, the essays should spark further debate on one of the more important an dramatic military events of the conflict.--Publisher website.

Subject

• 1864
• Geschichte 1864
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August)
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Shenandoah Valley in 1864 / Gary W. Gallagher -- Jubal A. Early and confederate leadership / Jeffry D. Wert -- Union generalship in the 1864 valley campaign / A. Wilson Greene -- "The cause of all my disasters" : Jubal A. Early and the undisciplined valley cavalry / Robert K. Krick -- "I resolved to play a bold game" : John S. Mosby as a factor in the 1864 valley campaign / Dennis E. Frye.

ISBN

• 0873384296 (alk.)
• 087338430X (pbk. : alk.)

LCCN

^^^90047368^

OCLC

• 22420529
• SCSB-13331716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library