Ebook: Bloody Autumn: the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Author: Daniel T. Davis, Greenwalt Philip
- Tags: History, HISTORY--Military--United States, HISTORY -- Military -- United States
- Series: Emerging Civil War series
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Savas Beatie
- City: Havertown
- Language: English
- epub
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Prologue; Chapter One: The Back Door of Invasion-Summer 1864; Chapter Two: "Little Phil" and "Old Jube"-Summer 1864; Chapter Three: Opening Maneuvers-August-September 1864; Chapter Four: Third Winchester, Part I-September 19, 1864; Chapter Five: Third Winchester, Part II-September 19, 1864; Chapter Six: Fisher's Hill-September 19-22, 1864; Chapter Seven: Laying Waste to the Valley September 22-October 5, 1864; Chapter Eight: Tom's Brook-October 5-9, 1864.;Sweep the Shenandoah Valley ""clean and clear, "" Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant ordered in the late summer of 1864. His man for the job: Maj. Gen. ""Little Phil"" Sheridan, the bandy-legged Irishman who'd proven himself just the kind of scrapper Grant loved. Grant turned Sheridan loose across Virginia's most vital landscape, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. In the spring of 1862, a string of Confederate victories in the Valley had foiled Union plans in the state and kept Confederate armies fed and supplied. In 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia used the Valley as its avenue of invas.
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