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Article: Shenandoah Valley Remembers 'the Burning'
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- The Washington Post
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- May 16, 2004
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Everyone seems to know that Gen. William T. Sherman marched across
Georgia to the sea in December 1864 and left ruined buildings and
lives along his 300-mile route. Less well-known is the devastation
wrought by Gen. Philip H. Sheridan on a sliver of Virginia, the
Shenandoah Valley, where homes, barns and mills were burned and
dozens of families were left destitute in September and October of
the same year.
Although the destruction in dollars was greater in Georgia, the
human impact was far more intense in the Shenandoah Valley, because
family farms and small towns were targeted, according to author and
historian John L. Heatwole.
The 140th anniversary of the "Burning," as Sheridan's campaign ...