From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864

Utilizing a vast array of unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs and published regimental histories, Jeffry Wert has written a path-breaking study of the crucial 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. In vivid detail he describes the battles of Third Winchester, Fisher’s Hill, and Cedar Creek, Union victories that insured the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Wert’s book is the first modern work on the campaign and captures the drama, the terrible nature of Civil War combat, and the suffering of...