The Battle of New Market

by William C. Davis

Paperback, 1983

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Civil War

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Publication

LSU Press (1983), 280 pages

Description

Reprint of the 1975 Doubleday original. One of the best Civil War historians recounts a battle in which a hastily assembled and outnumbered Confederate force, including youngsters from the Virginia Military Institution, defeated a superior Yankee army. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,

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LibraryThing member ksmyth
A great little book about an interesting and important battle of the Civil War. The battle which kept Union forces out of the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 gets a thorough going over by Davis, a veteran historian of the Civil War. The smallish size of the action allows a close up view at both sides.
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 The appendices in the back are quite useful, with a great Order of Battle.
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LibraryThing member worldsedge
Sentimental and decidedly pro-Southern, this work still does a decent job of hitting the main aspects of the battle, probably the last out and out Confederate victory. The business of the VMI cadets is doubtless recorded here all out of proportion to its actual importance, but that's a minor
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 quibble. The work as a whole is also not for the general reader. It begins rather abruptly with only a cursory review of events leading up to the battle and ends equally abruptly with only a very short discussion of what happened after the campaign.
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Subjects

New Market, Battle of, New Market, Va., 1864

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1975

Physical description

280 p.; 5.39 inches

ISBN

0807110787 / 9780807110782

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