Jackson's Valley Campaign: November 1861- June 1862

Great Campaigns

by David G. Martin

In a few short months in the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson rewrote military history. Jackson's aggressive personality enabled him to constantly maintain the initiative, cloak his own operations in tight security, keep enemy units separated, and defeat them in detail.

Genres: History, Civil War, American Civil War, Military History, Civil War Eastern Theater, American History

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Jerry]

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[Robert K · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved learning about the significance of Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign during the War of northern aggression. I finished reading it while spending the weekend in a warm, charming cabin west of Madison, VA in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns. The Valley is just over the mountains west about 20 miles. Essentially, Jackson, on assignment from Jefferson Davis toyed with & harassed Yankee troops continuously from 1861-1863, thus forcing Lincoln to commit hundreds of thousands of troops to defend Washington, D.C., when they could have been used elsewhere. The book covers all of the military chicanery well but is a scattered sort of way. The author knew the subject but presented this most interesting topic randomly. Still, I liked what I read & learned.

[Jimmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like other books in the Great Campaign series, this book is a good overview of the 1862 Valley Campaign, with numerous sidebars looking at individuals and some units. However, it gives more coverage to the Confederates than the Union army; for example, there are five sidebars on Jackson himself, mostly on topics that have little or nothing to do with the campaign, such as his ancestry, his personal faith, and personal habits.

[Curtiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

This description of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's brilliant Shennandoah Valley Campaign, is a little bit of a struggle to wade through, but is full of charts, maps, and side-bar entrees on various topics.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A history of the campaign in the Shenadoah Valley by Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Out manned and out gunned, he hell the Union forces in check protecting Lee's flank.