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Books On Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 edited by Gary Gallagher I’m going to try something different for this book. Since it is a collection of essays, I plan on reviewing each essay on its own merits. I will do this for all future Gallagher books, and I hope to […]

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Air Date: 102805 Subject: Gary Gallagher: Causes Lost and Won Books: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History Guest: Gary Gallagher Summary: Prolific Civil War author Dr. Gary Gallagher discusses why the South lost, black Confederates, how battlefields should be interpreted, and other controversial topics. Brett’s Summary: The basic summary pretty much […]

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http://www.brettschulte.net/ACWBooks/Valley1864.htm Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign. Edited by Gary Gallagher. The Kent State University Press (1991). 137 pp. 5 maps. The following is a review and summary of Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign, edited by Gary Gallagher.  Contributors to this collection of essays include Dennis […]

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