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Article: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 * Gary W. Gallagher, ed. * Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006 * xxii, 392 pp. * $45.00
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, the ninth and largest volume of the Military Campaigns of the Civil War series, features essays on key leaders, important military engagements, and the experiences of common soldiers and civilians. Gary W. Gallagher's opening essay compares the performance of Confederate general Jubal A. Early to his Union counterpart, Philip H. Sheridan. Gallagher concludes that had resources on both sides been equal, Sheridan's accomplishments would not have exceeded Early's. Keith S. Bohannon addresses the conflict between ...