On 2008-02-03 M. Baldwin, Ohio wrote: I am currently researching the Valley Campaign of 1864 and Jeffry Wert´s book is certainly the best book I have read on this campaign and one of the best on any campaign in the war. He begins with a brief overview of the blunders in the Valley in the later spring and summer of 1864 and with Sheridan´s appoint to headup the newly formed army. He is meticulous in his exacting detail, 35 pages of footnotes for 291 pages of text, but he is hardly pedantic. The writing is crisp and you feel carried along as the campaign progresses. After setting the stage he gives a nice thumnail of the commanders and their subordinates. I do have to agree with another reviewer as far as the maps, a sore point with me if you read other reviews of mine, there could have been more. But this certainly does not diminish the excellently written text. Anyone interested in this aspect of the war cannot really understand it without reading this. I would this up with many of the great volumnes of the war.. And summed up by saying A Classic Book on the Civil War. Currently From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864 has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Stackpole Books claimed This title takes a close look at a turning point in the Civil War. In the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, U.S. Major General Philip H. Sheridan led his army to a series of decisive victories for the Union over Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early and the Confederate Army of the Valley. In ´From Winchester to Cedar Creek´, author Jeffry D. Wert highlights Sheridan´s victories in the critical area of the Virginia Valley as defining moments of the Civil War. Sheridan´s campaign ensured Confederate defeat in Virginia and ultimately contributed to Lincoln´s reelection and the Union´s victory in the Civil War. Drawing on manuscript collections and many published sources, Wert offers vivid descriptions of the battles of Third Winchester, Fisher´s Hill, Tom´s Brook, and Cedar Creek. The book also explores how the interplay of the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and Confederate commanders, Sheridan and Early, resulted in victories for Sheridan´s Army of the Shenandoah. Grounded in detailed research, Wert´s compelling narrative portrays the military strategies these commanders employed and how their tactical decisions impacted civilian sacrifice in the Valley. First published in 1987, Wert´s chronicle remains the definitive book on Sheridan´s command and the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Offering a balanced treatment of both Union and Confederate experiences during the campaign, Wert emphasizes its importance as a turning point in the war from both military and civilian points of view. Supplemented with situation maps and photographs, ´From Winchester to Cedar Creek´ not only documents and dynamically recounts the events that unfolded between the summer and fall of 1864 in the Virginia Valley, but it also details the political, strategic, and tactical forces that made the Shenandoah Valley campaign so important to the outcome of the Civil War.
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