Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 (Charles R. Knight - CWC) eric wittenberg Now with this worthy complement

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

Hancock and Armistead crossed paths at a fort in Indian Territory before the Mexican War and then served together in California

"-Civil War History Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award In this authoritative chronicle of the great 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia

Where federal power prevailed

After days of hard marching

Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, May 1864 (Charles R. Knight - CWC) eric wittenberg Now with this worthy complementValley 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