Download or read book Shadowed by the Massanutten written by William Algernon Good and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book covers the counties of Shenandoah, Page, Rockingham, Frederick, Madison, Orange, Augusta.
Download or read book The Lost Civil War Diary of John Rigdon King written by Donald B. Jenkins and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his new diary, John R. King would steadfastly record what he did, saw and heard daily, as the Civil War raged around him. During May of 1862, after learning the photography trade, John took portraits of Union soldiers stationed in the Shenandoah Valley. Then, on May 23, 1862, when he heard the sounds of battle, he attempted to flee on a wagon. He was soon captured by Stonewall Jackson's troops. His treasured diary was taken. Force marched to a Confederate prison, John vowed revenge. Two weeks after escaping from captivity, John joined the Union Army. He fought with fury, courage and valor, was wounded three times and became a war hero. Later, John was not only appointed by two presidents to prestigious positions in the Pension Bureau, but he also became leader of the Grand Army of the Republic. After being lost for 150 years, his diary was recently discovered and is now being published.
Download or read book Valley Thunder written by Charles R. Knight and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “exciting and informative” account of the Civil War battle that opened the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with illustrations included (Lone Star Book Review). Charles Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 that opened the pivotal Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack on multiple fronts so the Confederacy could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” A key to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, an agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, and a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s left flank. Opposing Sigel was Maj. Gen. (and former US Vice President) John C. Breckinridge, who assembled a scratch command to repulse the Federals. Included in his 4,500-man army were Virginia Military Institute cadets under the direction of Lt. Col. Scott Ship, who’d marched eighty miles in four days to fight Sigel. When the armies faced off at New Market, Breckinridge told the cadets, “Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty.” The sharp fighting seesawed back and forth during a drenching rainstorm, and wasn’t concluded until the cadets were inserted into the battle line to repulse a Federal attack and launch one of their own. The Union forces were driven from the Valley, but would return, reinforced and under new leadership, within a month. Before being repulsed, they would march over the field at New Market and capture Staunton, burn VMI in Lexington (partly in retaliation for the cadets’ participation at New Market), and very nearly capture Lynchburg. Operations in the Valley on a much larger scale that summer would permanently sweep the Confederates from the “Bread Basket of the Confederacy.” Valley Thunder is based on years of primary research and a firsthand appreciation of the battlefield terrain. Knight’s objective approach includes a detailed examination of the complex prelude leading up to the battle, and his entertaining prose introduces soldiers, civilians, and politicians who found themselves swept up in one of the war’s most gripping engagements.
Download or read book Shadow Marching A Writer s Journey into the Civil War written by James Fritsch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War, Ohio, travel in the Southern States. The writer takes the reader along the roads traveled by the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Download or read book Shenandoah County in the Civil War written by Hal F. Sharpe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenandoah County, in the years prior to the Civil War, was a prosperous place. Nestled within the Shenandoah Valley, it was a haven for agricultural commerce fueled by slave labor. Integral railways and transportation routes passed through Shenandoah County, feeding its impressive agricultural output throughout the Virginia. With the outbreak of Civil War, all of that would change. Four major battles took place in and around Shenandoah County New Market, Toms Brook, Fishers Hill, and Cedar Creek. Although the proceedings of these historic battles have been well-documented, the effect the combat had on residents of Shenandoah County has receded into the background. Now, author Hal Shape brings the lives of county residents to fore, recounting how their spirits were tested during this dark hour of American history.
Download or read book Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia written by Etta Belle Walker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains true stories of the very early settlers and pioneers of Virginia, going back as far as the mid-seventeenth century. The book describes how the earliest settlers of Virginia came either from Germany or were Scots or Irish.
Download or read book Unfading Light written by Richard Fritzky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the first place, the attribute or ‘fixed mark’ that sealed their belonging to him, the conversations that they would most have liked to have had with him, the words of his that they were most moved by, and the why and how of his, maybe just maybe, helping save the soul of the Republic yet again in our own time. Among those interviewed were eleven celebrated Lincoln scholars and historians, the leaders of the National Lincoln Forum, the Abraham Lincoln Association, Lincoln Groups, and Civil War Roundtables from coast to coast, two celebrated Lincoln artists, an array of Lincoln impersonators, including Gettysburg’s own, curators, animators, professors, teachers, presenters, and more. They so movingly responded, inspiring and driving the author deep into Lincoln’s universe and into much material that is not often considered especially as to racism and race, his shadow-boxing with God, his faith and doubt, his exquisite humanity and extraordinary ability to lead, his nation of suffering and the torture it exacted upon him, and his rich reverence for both all that America was and could be.
Download or read book The Life work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks Minister in the Universalist Church written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The William Good Family written by Velma June Good Hulvey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ski written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebel Yell written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
Download or read book Art Folio of the Shenandoah Valley written by John Walter Wayland and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Children s Heritage written by Maurice Andrew Click and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burning written by John L. Heatwole and published by Rockbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gen. U.S. Grant's order to cripple the ability of the Shenandoah Valley to supply the CSA with food and fodder affected the civilian population as did no other act of war, including Sherman's march through Georgia. Packed with the firsthand account of victims and perpetrators alike, this book brings history alive.
Download or read book Reserves written by Patti O. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Poems of John Peale Bishop written by John Peale Bishop and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems written by John Peale Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
