Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 (Charles R. Knight - CWC) eric wittenberg S/L #24335

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These men were products of the traditional philosophy of war

and conversing with hundreds of Northern and Southern soldiers from corps commanders all the way down to privates

Now with this worthy complement to the enduring library of biographical accounts of those who helped Lincoln preserve the Union

the generals

Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 (Charles R. Knight - CWC) eric wittenberg S/L #24335Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864 by Charles Knight Charles R. Knights 'Valley Thunder' is the first full length account in more than three decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864the battle that opened the pivotal 1864 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 the