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Drew Wagenhoffer’s review of the paperback version of The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 yesterday led me to go back and read my own multi part summary of the *other* Gary Gallagher produced 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign book Struggle for the Shenandoah , including a review and a bibliography of the campaign.  Before Gallagher was […]

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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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Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign edited by Gary Gallagher I managed to finish the book earlier this week, but I haven’t had time to talk about the final essay and the bibliographic note until now. “I Resolved to Play a Bold Game”: John S. Mosby as a Factor in the […]

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One thing I completely forgot about when reading Struggle for the Shenandoah: Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign (edited by Gary Gallagher) was the usual “Bibliographic Note” at the end of each volume. In these areas, Gallagher and his fellow essayists choose the books most pertinent to the campaign they have just covered. These lists […]

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