The Shenandoah Valley in 1864 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Pond, George E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330284631 ISBN 13 : 9781330284636

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Shenandoah Valley in 1864

In making free use of field despatches, many of which have never hitherto been published, it has not been deemed desirable to strike out occasional errors of statement, arising from imperfect information; since, in order to profitably study and rightly understand the military opera tions herein described, it is necessary to know the views on which they were based, and to recall, in 1883, the facts as they appeared in 1864.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The mountain region of Virginia, from the beginning of the war, held a close military relation to the broad plain that stretches from the foot of the Blue Ridge to the sea, and it eventually became the theatre of a series of campaigns at once picturesque and decisive. The State was like a vast fortress or intrenched camp, thrown out above the line of the other ten Confederate commonwealths to guard their capital. I ts parallel rivers, flowing to the A tlantic, were water-barriers against attack from the north, while upreared to shield its western front were the rampart ridges of its highland domain. The valleys between these ridges furnished well-sheltered avenues for invading Northern territory. Of these avenues the most commanding was the Valley of Virginia, called also, from the chief river that drains it, the Valley of the Shenandoah. I ts eastern wall is the lofty Blue Ridge; its western, the North Mountains, a part of the main chain of the A lleghanies. Since its course is southwesterly, a Confederate army moving northward XI.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

A history of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War. Includes New Market, Lynchburg, Early at Washington, Fisher's Hill and more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330284631
• ISBN 13: 9781330284636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309
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