The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862

Comments:

Updated 5/22/04 I'm going to try something different for this book. Since it is a collection of essays, I plan on reviewing each essay on its own merits. I will do this for all future Gallagher books, and I hope to go back and reread past books to do the same. I feel that readers will get a little more out of the reviews for these books if I can give an overall feel for what the essays are about. Overall, this was not one of my favorite books in the series. Not one article focused on a tactical unit at a given battle, and there were no tactical maps in the entire book. Of the two maps available, both were just overviews of the Valley and of Western Virginia as a whole. Fortunately, every book in this series, including this volume, is of high quality. So even though it was not my favorite book in the series, I still thoroughly enjoyed some of the essays, especially William J. Miller's essay on the Federal Generals who opposed Jackson and Robert E.L. Krick's mini-biography of Charles Winder. This is a solid book and I definitely recommend it.

255 pp., 2 maps

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Gary Gallagher (editor)	The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
Comments: Updated 5/22/04 I'm going to try something different for this book. Since it is a collection of essays, I plan on reviewing each essay on its own merits. I will do this for all future Gallagher books, and I hope to go back and reread past books to do the same. I feel that readers will get a little more out of the reviews for these books if I can give an overall feel for what the essays are about. Overall, this was not one of my favorite books in the series. Not one article focused on a tactical unit at a given battle, and there were no tactical maps in the entire book. Of the two maps available, both were just overviews of the Valley and of Western Virginia as a whole. Fortunately, every book in this series, including this volume, is of high quality. So even though it was not my favorite book in the series, I still thoroughly enjoyed some of the essays, especially William J. Miller's essay on the Federal Generals who opposed Jackson and Robert E.L. Krick's mini-biography of Charles Winder. This is a solid book and I definitely recommend it. 255 pp., 2 maps For a full summary, click HERE.