Bloody Autumn: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)
by Daniel T. Davis (Author), Philip S. Greenwalt (Author)
In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley “clean and clear.” His man for the job: Maj. Gen. “Little Phil” Sheridan—a temperamental Irishman who’d proven himself just the kind of scrapper Grant loved.
The valley had already played a major part in the war for the Confederacy as both the location of major early victories against Union attacks, and as the route used by the Army of Northern Virginia for its invasion of the North, culminating in the battle of Gettysburg.
- Paperback
- 168 pages
- S/L #25678