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Article: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.(Military Campaigns of the Civil War, vol. 9)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- November 1, 2007
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 392. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3005-5.)
The ninth volume to appear in the Military Campaigns of the Civil War series, The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 is one of the finest. Like other books in the series, it is not intended as a comprehensive campaign history. Instead, the collection is meant to illustrate the critical juncture between events on the field of battle and events in the communities where the campaign took place, with special emphasis on "the ways in which military affairs, ...