| Defend the Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War Contributor(s): Colt, Margaretta Barton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195132378 ISBN-13: 9780195132373 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $33.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1999 Annotation: The author "brings to life the courage, recklessness, heartbreak, and deprivation of the (Shenandoah) Valley Campaign and the battles to the east of the Blue Ridge" ("The Commercial Appeal"). 60 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.73 |
| LCCN: 99011769 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.22" W x 9.04" (1.40 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Located in a strategic position in the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia, witnessed the Civil War in a way unlike any other town in America. In Defend the Valley, the story of the war is told through the letters and private papers of the Barton and Jones clans--two great limbs of one family tree with roots in Winchester. By collecting her ancestors' papers, Margaretta Barton Colt has done far more than provide a record of the Civil War. She has brought it to life with astounding clarity through the voices of those who experienced it. The Bartons and Joneses collectively sent eleven men into battle, most in the brigade led by Thomas Stonewall Jackson. Culled from the private papers of twenty family members, the material presented here includes many vivid recollections found in the soldiers' first-hand descriptions of the battles, as well as responses from the home front. The result is a fully rounded picture of the daily struggles of the Civil War, and a documentation of the passing of a way of life. |
