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This volume unites two classic Civil War campaign studies by the foremost southern historian of the immediate postwar era:History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of VirginiaandThe Army of Northern Virginia in 1862.Together they comprise a brilliant, breathtaking chronicle of the high tide of the Confederacy in 1862: Jackson's dazzling generalship in the Valley Campaign; Lee's bold offensive during the Seven Days Battle; the stunning Confederate victory at Second Manassas; Lee's decision to carry the war to enemy territory; the capture of Harper's Ferry; the bitterly fought Battle of Sharpsburg; and the bloody, humiliating Federal defeat at Fredericksburg.Allan, William is the author of 'Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862', published 1995 under ISBN 9780306806568 and ISBN 0306806568.
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