Decoying the Yanks - Jacksons valley campaign (Time-Life The Civ torrent

Pdf / English / 1984 Time-Life / 176 pages / ISBN 10 080944724X / 35.3 MB

In this volume we look at the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign campaign conducted by Confederate forces under General Jackson. This large valley, situated so that its northern end threatened Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C., became a battleground as Federals tried to bring to corner Jackson... and frequently found themselves suddenly attacked and defeated. This campaign would forever make Stonewall Jackson a legend.

This book is well illustrated with photos, maps, artwork and pictures of various artifacts. However, to follow the manueverings of Jackson you have to pretty much keep going back and forth to the map at the beginning of the book... regional maps at the beginning of each chapter might have been more useful. The book also has several sidebars on topics such as Shenandoah paintings by German artist Edward Beyer, Fortess Washington, foreigners in Federal blue, Confederate spy Belle Boyd and Soldiers of the Valley