Beleaguered Winchester : a Virginia community at war, 1861-1865 /
During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including...
| Основен автор: | Duncan, Richard R. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329429 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Beleaguered Winchester. |
| Резюме: |
During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including some seventy smaller skirmishes. In his voluminous community study of the town over the course of four tumultuous years, Richard R. Duncan shows that in many ways Winchester's history provides a paradigm of the changing nature of the war. Indeed, Duncan reveals how the town offers a microcosm of the. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xix, 380 pages, [6] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-361) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780807135792 0807135798 |