Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign

War Comes to the Homefront

Reeks: Civil War Sesquicentennial Series

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  • Virginia's
  • Shenandoah
  • Valley
  • was
  • known
  • as
  • the
  • "Breadbasket
  • of
  • the
  • Confederacy"
  • due
  • to
  • its
  • ample
  • harvests
  • and
  • transportation
  • centers,
  • its
  • role
  • as
  • an
  • avenue
  • of
  • invasion
  • into
  • the
  • North
  • and
  • its
  • capacity
  • to
  • serve
  • as
  • a
  • diversionary
  • theater
  • of
  • war.
  • The
  • region
  • became
  • a
  • magnet
  • for
  • both
  • Union
  • and
  • Confederate
  • armies
  • during
  • the
  • Civil
  • War,
  • and
  • nearly
  • half
  • of
  • the
  • thirteen
  • major
  • battles
  • fought
  • in
  • the
  • valley
  • occurred
  • as
  • part
  • of
  • General
  • Thomas
  • J.
  • "Stonewall"
  • Jackson's
  • 1862
  • Valley
  • Campaign.
  • Civil
  • War
  • historian
  • Jonathan
  • A.
  • Noyalas
  • examines
  • Jackson's
  • Valley
  • Campaign
  • and
  • how
  • those
  • victories
  • brought
  • hope
  • to
  • an
  • infant
  • Confederate
  • nation,
  • transformed
  • the
  • lives
  • of
  • the
  • Shenandoah
  • Valley's
  • civilians
  • and
  • emerged
  • as
  • Stonewall
  • Jackson's
  • defining moment.
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