The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm

The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Toward a New Civil War Paradigm
ISBN-10
087338721X
ISBN-13
9780873387217
Category
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Author
Richard M. McMurry

Description

This text, using a counter-factual account of the 1864 campaigns in Virginia, presents a view of the American Civil War from the West - moving the narrow confines of the Old Dominion to the vast Trans-Appalachian region - and gives the reader an understanding of how and why the war ended.

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