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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Decoying the Yanks: Jackson's Valley Campaign
- Original publication date
- 1984 (copyright) (copyright)
- People/Characters
- Turner Ashby; Nathaniel P. Banks; John G. Barnard; George D. Bayard; P. G. T. Beauregard; Barnard E. Bee (as Barnard Bee) (show all 116); Judah P. Benjamin; Edward Beyer (paintings of); Billy Bowlegs (mentioned); Louis Blenker; Alexander Robinson Boteler (as Alexander R. Boteler); Michael Bowman; Belle Boyd (mentioned); John Cabell Breckinridge (as John C. Breckinridge); Noah Brooks; Lucy Buck; Jesse Burks; Samuel S. Carroll; John O. Casler; Salmon P. Chase; Robert P. Chew; Thomas Childs; Gustave Paul Cluseret; Zephaniah T. Conner; Stapleton Crutchfield; Robert L. Dabney; Jefferson Davis; Henry Kyd Douglas; Frederic D'Utassy; Wilder Dwight; Arnold Elzey; Richard S. Ewell; Thomas Flournoy; William B. Franklin; John Charles Frémont; William H. French (as William Henry French); Samuel Fulkerson; Oliver Funsten; Richard Brooke Garnett (as Richard B. Garnett); Robert Garnett; William Gilham; John T. D. Gisiner; George Henry Gordon (as George H. Gordon); John B. Gordon; Stephen Hannas; John Harman; William Harman; Kenton Harper; Wells J. Hawks; Harry T. Hays; Daniel Harvey Hill; Eliza Hopewell; Jedediah Hotchkiss; John D. Imboden; Elinor Junkin Jackson; Laura Jackson; Mary Anna Morrison Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Warren Jackson; Bradley T. Johnson; Edward 'Allegheny' Johnson; Joseph E. Johnston; Joe Kaufman; Daniel Keily; Benjamin F. Kelley; John R. Kenly; Myles Walter Keogh; Nathan Kimball; Wladimir Kryzanowski; George W. Kurtz; Peter L. Kurtz; James H. Langhorne; Robert E. Lee; John Letcher; Abraham Lincoln; William W. Loring; George B. McClellan (as George Brinton McClellan); Angus McDonald; Irvin McDowell; Hunter McGuire; John B. Magruder (as John Bankhead Magruder); Robert H. Milroy; Thomas T. Munford; George Neese; Edward O. C. Ord; Robert Patterson; John M. Patton; Alexander Pendleton (Sandie); J. T. L. Preston; Alexander Repetti; Thomas B. Robinson; John Roestler (lithographs by); William S. Rosecrans (mentioned); Robert C. Schenck; Winfield Scott; John Sedgwick; Edward C. Shepherd; James Shields; Francis H. Smith; Julius Stahel; Edwin M. Stanton; George H. Steuart; J. E. B. Stuart; William B. Taliaferro; Richard L. Taylor (as Richard Taylor); Zachary Taylor; William Makepeace Thayer; Isaac R. Trimble; Augustus J. Turner; David E. Twiggs; Erastus B. Tyler; James A. Walker; Roberdeau Wheat (as Chatham Roberdeau Wheat); Alpheus S. Williams; Charles S. Winder (as Charles Sidney Winder); Percy Wyndham
- Important places
- Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Allegheny Mountains, USA; Appalachian Mountains, USA; Arlington, Virginia, USA; Ashby's Gap, Virginia, USA; Bath, Virginia, USA (show all 110); Big Sewell Mountain, West Virginia, USA; Big Spring, Virginia, USA; Blackburn's Ford, Virginia, USA; Bloomery Gap, West Virginia, USA; Blue Ridge Mountains, USA; Brandy Station, Virginia, USA; Brown's Gap, Virginia, USA; Fayette County, West Virginia, USA; Rockingham County, Virginia, USA; Buckton, Virginia, USA; Bullpasture Mountain, Virginia, USA (as Bull Pasture Mountain); Bullpasture River, Virginia, USA (as Bull Pasture River); Bunker Hill, Virginia, USA; Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, USA; Cedar Creek, North Fork Shenandoah River, Virginia, USA; Cedarville, Virginia, USA; Cerro Gordo, Veracruz, Mexico; Chain Bridge, Potomac River, USA; Chapultepec, Mexico; Charles Town, Virginia, USA; Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; Charlottesville-Staunton Road, Virginia, USA; Chesapeake Bay, USA; Churubusco, Mexico City, Mexico; Conrad's Store, Virginia, USA; Darnestown, Maryland, USA; Fairfax Court House, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Falling Springs, Virginia, USA; Falling Waters, West Virginia, USA; Fisher's Gap, Blue Ridge Mountains, USA; Fort Hamilton, New York, USA; Fort Meade, Florida, USA; Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA; Fort Slemmer, Washington, D.C., USA; Fort Totten, Washington, D.C., USA; Franklin, Virginia, USA; Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA; Front Royal, Virginia, USA; Georgia, USA; Hancock, Maryland, USA; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA; Hawk's Nest, Virginia, USA; Hunting Creek, Virginia, USA; Jackson's Mill, Virginia, USA; James River, Virginia, USA; Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, USA; Kernstown, Virginia, USA; Liberty, Virginia, USA; Little Kanawha River, Virginia, USA; Loudoun Heights, Virginia, USA; Louisiana, USA; Luray, Virginia, USA; Luray Valley, Virginia, USA; Manassas Gap, Virginia, USA; Manassas Junction, Virginia, USA; Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA; Massanutten Mountain, Virginia, USA; Mechum's River Station, Virginia, USA; Middletown, Virginia, USA; Miller's Ferry, Virginia, USA; Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico; Moorefield, Virginia, USA; Mount Jackson, Virginia, USA; New Market, Virginia, USA; New River, West Virginia, USA; Newtown, Virginia, USA; North River, Virginia, USA; Ohio, USA; Paris, Virginia, USA; Peace River, Virginia, USA; Piedmont, Virginia, USA; Point Isabel, Texas, USA; Port Republic, Virginia, USA; Potomac River; Pritchard's Hill, Virginia, USA; Pughtown, Virginia, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Romney, West Virginia, USA; Rude's Hill, Virginia, USA; Shenandoah River, USA; Shenandoah Valley, USA; Sitlington's Hill, Virginia, USA; South River, Virginia, USA; Sperryville, Virginia, USA; Stanardsville, Virginia, USA; Staunton, Virginia, USA; Stony Creek, Virginia, USA; Strasburg, Virginia, USA; Swift Run Gap, Virginia, USA; Thornton's Gap, Virginia, USA; Tom's Brook, Virginia, USA; Unger's Store, Virginia, USA; Valley Turnpike, Virginia, USA; Wardensville, Virginia, USA; Warm Spring Mountain, Virginia, USA; Warm Springs, Virginia, USA; Washington, D.C., USA; West Virginia, USA; Williamsport, Maryland, USA; Winchester, Virginia, USA; Wisconsin, USA; Woodstock, Virginia, USA
- Important events
- Mexican-American War (1846 | 1848); American Civil War (1861 | 1865); Jackson's Valley Campaign (1862); First Battle of Kernstown (1862-03-23); Battle of McDowell (1862-05-08); Battle of Front Royal (1862-05-23) (show all 10); First Battle of Winchester (1862-05-25); Battle of Fair Oaks (1862-05-31 | 1862-06-01); Battle of Cross Keys (1862-06-08); Battle of Port Republic (1862-06-09)
- First words
- "Everything had a thrifty look," wrote a Confederate soldier in the Shenandoah Valley in 1861. ("Imperiled Land of Milk and Honey")
The 1st Virginia Brigade, encamped on a farm not far from the stream called Bull Run, lined up in close column on the morning of November 4, 1861. - Quotations
- "General Lee was the handsomest man I ever saw. John C. Breckinridge was a model of manly beauty, John B. Gordon, a picture for the sculptor, and Joe Johnston looked every inch a soldier. None of these things could be said of... (show all) Jackson."
- Lieutenant Henry Kyd Douglas, aide to General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson)
Thomas J. Jackson was an unlikely combination of opposites. He was a tender husband who doted on children, but also a pitiless disciplinarian who "would have a man shot at the drop of a hat," remarked one of his soldiers, "an... (show all)d drop it himself."
He had no particular difficulty in deciding when to render to Caesar and when to render to God. He strongly believed that Sunday should be set aside for worship, and he would not even write a letter on that day. But he reason... (show all)ed that if the Lord in His Wisdom chose to place a vulnerable enemy in Jackson's path on the Sabbath, then His Will be done. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He was heading toward Richmond - where Robert E. Lee, granted time by the Valley Campaign, was preparing to attack George McClellan.
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